Please, no animal carcasses in the blue recycling bin

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

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

"Yeah, there was a deer leg last time. Somebodyput 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 sortthrough 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 ofcontaminantsper 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 mobileapp to help residents properly sort through their waste.

With files from the CBC'sDaybreak North.

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