Just in time for Penticton’’s 2008 centennial, the city is looking to spend $10,000 on solar-powered heritage garbage bins for downtown. City council voted unanimously Monday night to accept a recommendation from the downtown revitalization committee to acquire 20 new self-compacting garbage bins. Mitch Moroziuk, the city’’s director of engineering and development services, said the city plans to replace the current waste receptacles along Main Street with larger, solar-powered bins designed to compact the trash load thereby reducing the number of times they must be emptied. To improve their appearance, heritage photographs from the museum will be added to their sides. "You actually would have the ability to take them (historical pictures) and put them on the outside of the garbage cans so when you walk by the garbage cans you could see what Penticton used to look like," he said. Moroziuk said there are no odour problems reported by other municipalities which have switched to the new containers. Each can is roughly a cubic metre in size. "In some instances, places that had put them in were emptying their can up to six times a day," he said. "After they put one of those in, they were basically down to once every three days." Coun. Joanne Grimaldi said the recent removal of large dumpsters from downtown back alleys is another factor. Trash picked up off the street can be put into the smaller compactors instead. Grimaldi described the new heritage bins as "pretty spectacular" and worth the investment. Mayor Jake Kimberley noted the City of Victoria has a number of the bins throughout its inner harbour and downtown area. Wednesday, June 20, 2007
City spending $10,000 to upgrade garbage bins
By John MoorhouseWednesday, June 20, 2007 http://www.pentictonherald.ca/stories.php?id=49765
Just in time for Penticton’’s 2008 centennial, the city is looking to spend $10,000 on solar-powered heritage garbage bins for downtown. City council voted unanimously Monday night to accept a recommendation from the downtown revitalization committee to acquire 20 new self-compacting garbage bins. Mitch Moroziuk, the city’’s director of engineering and development services, said the city plans to replace the current waste receptacles along Main Street with larger, solar-powered bins designed to compact the trash load thereby reducing the number of times they must be emptied. To improve their appearance, heritage photographs from the museum will be added to their sides. "You actually would have the ability to take them (historical pictures) and put them on the outside of the garbage cans so when you walk by the garbage cans you could see what Penticton used to look like," he said. Moroziuk said there are no odour problems reported by other municipalities which have switched to the new containers. Each can is roughly a cubic metre in size. "In some instances, places that had put them in were emptying their can up to six times a day," he said. "After they put one of those in, they were basically down to once every three days." Coun. Joanne Grimaldi said the recent removal of large dumpsters from downtown back alleys is another factor. Trash picked up off the street can be put into the smaller compactors instead. Grimaldi described the new heritage bins as "pretty spectacular" and worth the investment. Mayor Jake Kimberley noted the City of Victoria has a number of the bins throughout its inner harbour and downtown area.
Just in time for Penticton’’s 2008 centennial, the city is looking to spend $10,000 on solar-powered heritage garbage bins for downtown. City council voted unanimously Monday night to accept a recommendation from the downtown revitalization committee to acquire 20 new self-compacting garbage bins. Mitch Moroziuk, the city’’s director of engineering and development services, said the city plans to replace the current waste receptacles along Main Street with larger, solar-powered bins designed to compact the trash load thereby reducing the number of times they must be emptied. To improve their appearance, heritage photographs from the museum will be added to their sides. "You actually would have the ability to take them (historical pictures) and put them on the outside of the garbage cans so when you walk by the garbage cans you could see what Penticton used to look like," he said. Moroziuk said there are no odour problems reported by other municipalities which have switched to the new containers. Each can is roughly a cubic metre in size. "In some instances, places that had put them in were emptying their can up to six times a day," he said. "After they put one of those in, they were basically down to once every three days." Coun. Joanne Grimaldi said the recent removal of large dumpsters from downtown back alleys is another factor. Trash picked up off the street can be put into the smaller compactors instead. Grimaldi described the new heritage bins as "pretty spectacular" and worth the investment. Mayor Jake Kimberley noted the City of Victoria has a number of the bins throughout its inner harbour and downtown area. 
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