High River council got an update Monday July 17 on a possible curbside recycling effort.

Mike Wallace with Cascade Recovery explained the process items go through to be re-purposed stressing that they are not a waste company.

He says while some companies actually put some of their material in the landfill cascade is audited by the City of Calgary.

Six hundred metric tonnes of material are processed every month, or 40 metric tonnes per hour.

On average, 92 per cent of the materials are re-used with just eight per cent being discarded.

The General Manager of Plant Operations Bill Stitt says glass is sold and used in sandblasting while most of the plastics go to BC and the balance to Calgary for re-use.

Cardboard is shipped to one of Cascade's Paper Mills, where rolls of linerboard & corrugated medium are produced. The rolls are then sent to their Containerboard Plant where they produce new corrugated boxes.

Councillor Don Moore, who is the Town's representative on the Foothills Regional Services Commission, which operates the regional landfill, says High River has been using Cascade for eight years and he described the arrangement as "perfect".

Town council is mulling over whether to go to a curbside pick up system.