With the cooler weather business at the Hornby Island recycling Depot is slowing down. An excellent time to play catch-up from all the summer influx. We are currently working on finding ways to bale more recyclables in the hope that we can reduce the frequency of recycling pickups. Most likely this will increase our labour requirements, but we think would be a good trade-off to reduce the recycling depots carbon footprint. As well less recycling trucks on our little ferry will leave more room for travellers to and from Hornby Island. We are also working to ship close to 20 3’ x 3’ x 3’ “mega bags “of electronics and electric appliances that we have collected in the last couple of months off the island.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank CVRD for our new backhoe shed. This new shed will provide a safe lock up for our backhoe for many years to come. The next step in this project will be the teardown of the old backhoe shed.
With the help of Reina LeBaron our HIRRA administrator we are working on a guide for dissolving estates in an environmentally conscientious fashion. We are often inundated with huge amounts of free store items that we cannot accept due to their condition. Many of these items will end up in the waste stream. We hope this guide will provide some useful information that will make the process of dissolving estates less painful.
We have been recently informed by the diabetes foundation that they can no longer accept our books. This leaves us in a predicament as we have no longer have a recycling stream for old books. So, you will find that our library may be a little more crowded these days We are researching ways to recycle the books that arrive here at the Depot. Until then if you have any books that you can deposit at the Salvation Army, goodwill, value Village or any other thrift store on the big Island it would help the recycling depot.
A shout out to all those who helped bringing waste and debris from the ocean’s shorelines to the recycling depot. We really appreciate your volunteerism and environmental consciousness and are happy never to charge for any beach waste that is brought up to the recycling depot.
As always, we would like to thank all those faithful volunteers who come and spend their weekends up on Depot Hill sorting donations for the free store. Thank you to all those amazing summer volunteers who spend their summer up on depot rather than the beach or their gardens. Thank you to our amazing staff, the recycling committee volunteers and the HIRRA executive.
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