Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Mayor, Dwaine Heinrich reminds the public about not putting garbage in the recycling bin.

On Monday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said he has ridden on a Recycle North recycling truck recently on a route in Jamestown, a saw garbage items including animal waste in the recycling bin.  He reminded citizens that the items in the recycling bin have to be sorted by hand when they arrive at the recycling center.

Recycle North Dakota manager Ralph Freibel recently told the City Council’s Public Works Committee that workers have found in the recycling bins a whole turkey and dead fish.

Mayor Heinrich added that the amount of garbage in the recycling bins is small, adding that some of those items were found in apartment building dumpsters, rather than in the residential homes recycling bins.

He added that recycled items are now be sorted before being shipped out, saying the backlog of recyclables is now  being caught up.