The City has released new details about the curb side recycling program coming to single family homes in Calgary next year.

The service will be rolled out by quadrant. Service will start in the South West in April. This will be followed by South East, North West and North East communities serviced by June. The service will be a mandatory $8/month charge for weekly pickup at the same time and location as the regular garbage collection.

The program will recycle "plastics labeled with the recycling triangle 1 to 7 (except Styrofoam). The program will also accept newspapers, magazines, mixed paper, cardboard, milk containers, food cans and glass." Best of all, there's no need to sort, everything will go in the same bin and be sorted at a depot.

Single family homes, duplexes and fourplexes will be covered but condominium locations will not have the curbside pick-up. These homes will not be charged the $8/month and will have to continue to use the community recycling locations throughout the city or rely on private companies that currently provide pickup services.