Lockport, N.Y., Seeks Bids for New Recycling Tote Program

The Town Board voted Wednesday to seek bids from garbage haulers for a program starting in 2017 that will include collection of recyclables every two weeks from town-provided wheeled totes.

That type of tote won’t be used for regular weekly garbage collections. The town will continue to allow residents to place at the curb as many as six bags or cans, limited to 60 pounds each, and one large item each week.

However, the 18-gallon hand-carried recycling bins will become a thing of the past.

Supervisor Mark C. Crocker said the default tote for recycling will be a 96-gallon size, although residents who returned the town’s recent postcard survey preferring a 64-gallon tote will receive that model.