New recycling system coming to Quebec in the new year [Video]

As of the new year, Quebec will have a new curbside recycling system, including big blue bins with a long list of what households can put inside.

Some of those bins have been delivered already, and Westmount resident Michael Maltais said he’s just glad he has enough room to store the new bin.

“I think it’s a great idea. It’s big. It rolls. So if you have a strength problem or if you have, you know, a hard time carrying stuff, you just can pull it to the curb and it’s all there,” he said.

The list of items that can go in the bin has grown, said Marie-Claude Rivet of Eco Entreprise Quebec, the non-profit handling the roll-out.

“You don’t have to wonder, ‘is this is the right amount of plasti I can put it in the bin or not?’ Just as long as it is a container, a …