Please, no animal carcasses in the blue recycling bin

The City of Fort St. John is glad people have taken up recycling but lately the city has been asking people to stop putting things in there that don't belong. 

The city tweeted out a number of items that don't go in the blue recycling bin - such as animal carcasses, mower blades and fake Christmas trees. 

"Yeah, there was a deer leg last time. Somebody put a portion of a deer in their blue bin," said Julie Rogers, communications coordinator with the City of Fort St. John. 

She said not only is it disgusting to find an animal carcass, but it is also a health hazard to the people who sort through the recycling. 

Rogers said in the last week, staff are finding more misplaced items in the bins than usual. 

"They will normally collect one large bin of contaminants per load. But in the last week, they've had five or six or seven bins of contaminants in each load," she said. 

She suspects it's because people just don't know which items go where, and she said there is a free mobile app to help residents properly sort through their waste. 

With files from the CBC's Daybreak North.

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