The City of Vancouver, British Columbia, ceased providing residential recycling collection in October 2016, and Multi-Material BC (MMBC), the nonprofit packaging stewardship organization, will take over services. In an article in the Vancouver Sun, "the city's existing arrangement for recycling pickup was costing millions of dollars each year and tying up employees." The city's recycling collectors will instead now clean up "the overflowing garbage cans and abandoned trash that have tarnished Vancouver's sheen in recent years" while the "non-profit industry association will take responsibility for the work in an arrangement city staff say will save cash and leave the city looking cleaner than ever. There won't be any noticeable change in recycling pickup and no jobs will be lost in the handover either."