Curbside garbage pickup could be coming to the Red Bluff community this fall.
A Request For Proposal (RFP) on a contract for weekly curbside garbage collection has been put out by the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) earlier this month.
Tera Grady, the Manager of Solid Waste for the CRD, says the garbage collection would be a new service for the Red Bluff community.
“In 2023, we surveyed the residents of Red Bluff, and 70 per cent of the respondents were in favour of the service,” Grady says. “Some are currently hiring private garbage collection, but the bonus for this service is that all the residents will have Recycle BC supplied recycle curbside recycling pick up, the same as what City of Quesnel residents receive now.”
According to Grady, there has been a lot of planning and mapping of the Red Bluff area to determine how many homes are accessible for the service, and if the community meets the province’s criteria of size to have the service.
The RFP asks possible collection contractors to be able to serve 1,275 residential homes in Red Bluff, as well as eight trailer parks, for the weekly garbage collection. The collected garbage will be taken to the City of Quesnel’s landfill.
Grady says there are five communities the CRD is looking to implement weekly curbside garbage pickup in, and Red Bluff is the largest.
The CRD will supply 246 curbside tote bins initially for the automated collection. The awarded contractor will be responsible for the initial delivery of the totes, as well as replacing totes as part of the five-year contract.
Grady says the CRD is “unsure” of what the cost to residents for the service will be as of right now.
“The actual cost of collection will be dependent on the proposals that we receive when the [RFP] closes next month,” Grady says.
“We are targeting to roll out the service for October; however, we won’t have an exact date until we get a contractor. Once we have that date, the residents will be receiving correspondence about when [the service] will be rolled out and how they will be billed.”
The closing date of the RFP is July 9, 2025.
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