A summer push for more recycling in the City of Dauphin appears to be paying off.
Recycling is up 18 per cent for the first eleven months of the year compared to 2014.
A summer student, Shelby Tycholes, contacted larger apartment blocks, which were offered free rolling bins, and also went door-knocking to speak with homeowners who weren't recycling and tried to get them on board.
Mayor Eric Irwin credits the city working with its recycler and apartment blocks to ensure that recycling is picked up, as well as Tycholes' efforts over the summer. He calls her a "real crackerjack."
"She went around the entire community and I think she visited about 1,000 households-- something like that-- most of the ones that didn't recycle, and was able to interview them and try to convince them to recycle. So it was really going door-to-door in order to make a difference."
Despite the rise in recycling, a graph from the city's public works director that goes as far back as 2012 shows a consistent decrease in Dauphin's recycling numbers year-to-year for the month of October.
