Vancouver looking to hire more ‘binners’ during the Games
VANCOUVER — The city of Vancouver plans to spend $50,000 to hire extra binners to clean up the downtown core during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Twenty-two paid binners will earn $10 an hour retrieving recyclable beverage containers from 250 temporary recycling bins throughout the city.
Downtown Eastside-based non-profit organization United We Can will hire the binners to work four-hour shifts each of the 17 Olympic Games days. The binners will be scheduled in three shifts to provide 12 hours of service a day. Deposit refunds will go back to UWC to pay other workers.
The proposed grant awaits city council approval Tuesday, where Councillor Geoff Meggs believes it will be an easy sell.
“UWC is truly one of those outstanding Downtown Eastside institutions because it takes what could really be a difficult problem and turns it into a number of positives by producing income and jobs for people while they do all of this recycling,” Meggs said Sunday. “By making this grant, I think it will spread some of the benefits around but also help the city keep the downtown area cleaner. Plus, it’s a modest amount and from planned expenditures.”
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