Big problem, small solution: Windsor-Essex offered downsized recycling bins

There is now hope and relief for Windsor-Essex residents feeling the blues over their huge new recycling bins.

Toronto-based Circular Materials, tasked by the province with overseeing Ontario’s new recycling system, has announced that smaller blue bins will be available upon request.

“For Essex-Windsor residents interested in a smaller recycling cart, we are pleased to share that a Recycling Cart Exchange Request Form will be available on the Circular Materials website in mid-December,” the not-for-profit organization states on its website.

Ontario’s new single-stream curbside recycling program is scheduled to start Jan. 1. Under the new system, residents will combine all recyclables into one cart instead having to separate them into the familiar red and blue boxes that have been around