Any change requires city council approval. The current three-bag system involves sorting recyclables into blue bags, organics into green bags and garbage into clear bags. City staff cited climbing injury rates and retention issues as reasons to temporarily use a private company for collection in one of the city's seven waste collection zones. Councillors voted in 2018 to return to collection by city workers only, but that didn't happen. Local 51 members regularly attended city council meetings last winter as the sides neared a lockout or strike.

Source: CBC News September 24, 2020 18:41 UTC