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City of Regina officially trashes weekly garbage pickups

City council voted in favor of trashing the existing weekly garbage pickup schedule and instead switching to biweekly pickups on Monday at Regina’s city council meeting.

Schedule changes will begin in November and run until March 2018

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A blue bin and a brown bin
Regina City Council has a target of diverting 65 per cent of residential household waste from the landfill but the city's waste diversion rate has remained at only 20 per cent since 2015. (Mike Zartler/CBC)

Regina city council has voted in favor of trashing the existing weekly garbage pickup schedule and instead switching to biweekly pickups.

Officials said the change is expected to save the city $132,000.

Schedule changes will begin in November and run until March 2018. The city said it had intentions of supplying weekly trash pickup over the Christmas period.

Council approved amendments to this year's budget in April after the announcement of a $10.3-million shortfall in the city's 2017 budget.

More than 64,000 homes are expected to be affected by the change.

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