We would like to thank everybody who has helped us adjust to our new normal here up on Depot Hill. Thank you for waiting patiently in line for your turn to do your recycling and waste depositing and for having your interact payment ready for our site attendant. We also appreciate everybody’s participation in practicing physical distancing. Thank you also for pre-sorting all of your recyclables and depositing them in a timely fashion thus reducing and minimizing your fellow islanders wait time who are behind you in the lineup.
As physical distancing protocol requirements remain in effect there will be a restricted number of patrons allowed at the recycling station and the waste bin at the time. Please be advised that there will be wait times.
Note that we are now accepting all streams of recycling, refundables and household hazardous waste items again. The latter only on Fridays.
We are getting a lot of questions if the Free Store might be opening this summer and unfortunately, we have to inform everybody that the free store will remain closed for the time being. This is by no means a permanent state of affairs. There are discussions on how reopening could be accomplished, and we will update you as soon as there is news on how we are going to move forward.
We have switched to summer hours which are from Thursdays ‘til Sundays 9 AM till 1 PM until September 6, 2020.
Pricing for waste has increased slightly as of July 1, 2020 and it will now cost two dollars for small kitchen catches style bag, four dollars for medium regular green garbage bag and six dollars for an extra-large garbage bag.
Also available as of July 1 202 are waste tickets at a value of two dollars each. They can be purchased in a book of 10 via interact with your tap card or by depositing exact change or cheque in a collection dispenser with the site attendant and then used as a payment option at a later date.
When depositing drywall please ensure that you have you waste disposal application filled out before you arrive at the recycling depot. The waste disposal application can be downloaded and printed at http://hirra.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Dry-Wall-Waste-Disposal-Application-March-2017.pdf.
Thank you again for helping us moving towards zero waste by diverting waste and recyclables away from the land fill. We want to thank our recycling committee and the HIRRA staff and executive for their assistance in these trying times. Also a big thank you to our free store volunteers who we are missing and hope to practice the “reuse” portion of the three R’s with again soon.
See you all up on Depot Hill
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