Iqaluit water crisis increasing plastic bottle use, companies offer recycling help – National

A bunch of firms in Nunavut have teamed as much as recycle hundreds of plastic water bottles from Iqaluit.

Town’s faucet water hasn’t been drinkable for per week after it was discovered to comprise gas.

Hundreds of bottles of water have arrived in Iqaluit and distributed to residents at no cost, however there’s no recycling facility within the metropolis.

Brian Tattuinee, who’s the enterprise growth supervisor with Nunavut Sealink and Provide, says individuals in Iqaluit ought to maintain on to their plastic bottles for recycling.

Tattuinee says he’s apprehensive about what number of plastic bottles might find yourself within the metropolis’s landfill, so bottles will as a substitute be collected and despatched to Southern Canada on a sealift ship.

Town has additionally prolonged its state of emergency associated to the water disaster for seven extra days.

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