By Chad Feehan / Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Recycling is good for the environment, but it isn’t always cheap.
On Tuesday, council approved the purchase of a pair of new recycling trucks to haul away residents’ bottles and cardboard. The price tag? Some $1,196,037.
Harvey & Company will supply the two dual streaming recycling trucks, which are capable of carrying two kinds of recyclable materials at once. The St. John’s based firm was the sole qualified bidder on the tender.
Mayor Dave Aker joked about the price of the new vehicles, giving them the titles of “very” and “expensive” respectively.
“Garbage trucks are costing a fortune,” he said. “But I think that’s the new reality since the pandemic and of course this went through a transparent tender process.”
The roads that support the massive machines, meanwhile, will soon get a little patch up. The City has hired Crown Contracting to seal cracks in the City’s asphalt for the price of $87,917.
