The good weather is here and we’re in full waste diversion mode, ready for the Summer of 2021. Here are some notes for our visitors to the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. We are now open Thursdays through Sundays from 9 am till 1pm through-out the months of July and August. Note that we will be closed all Statutory Holidays including Canada Day, BC Day, and Labour Day.
The Recycling Depot continues to operate with Covid-19 protocols in place. We thank-you for your continued patience and for wearing a mask when you are inside any of our buildings. If anyone hasn’t been to the Depot recently, we will be happy to clarify the Covid protocols.
We are now collecting tipping fees at point of entry of the recycling depot. To make payment more convenient we are selling waste tickets in books of ten that can be purchased at our cashier kiosk. These tickets cost $2.00 each and can be exchanged for waste disposal at the depot at the rate one ticket per small garbage bag, two tickets per medium garbage bag, and three tickets per large garbage bags. You can also pay for your garbage using your debit or credit card. To date we are still following the directive to restrict cash transactions.
Please note that although the tire stewardship will pay for heaving old tires that patrons to the Recycling Depot dropped off, picked up for free, the tire stewardship does not cover the cost for de-rimming the tires from the rim. The Recycling Depot is charged $5 per rimmed tire, and we will have to, from now on, pass this cost onto our patrons.
We are also no longer able to stockpile concrete rubble and need to ship that material as construction waste of island. Again we will need to pass this cost onto the customers who need to drop off concrete rubble.
We would like to remind everyone again to please call ahead when planning deposit drywall to ensure that our drywall bin is on the island and that there is room in the bin for your drywall before you come to the depot. As well please ensure that you have your waste disposal application out before you arrive at the recycling depot. The waste disposal application can be downloaded and printed at https://recycling.hirra.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Dry-Wall-Waste-Disposal-Application-March-2017.pdf.
Due to the CVRD’s Weed Control Regulation Bylaw which includes Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum Salicaria), Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum), Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus), Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea biersteinii), English Ivy (Hedera helix), Giant Cow Parsnip (Hogweed) Heracleum mantegazzianum), Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius), Gorse (Ulex europaeus), Dalmatian Toadflax (Linaria dalmatica), Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus discolor), and English Holly (Ilex aquifolium), we no longer accept these plants in our compost and they must be disposed of in our waste stream.
A note that household hazardous waste like motor oil, paint, batteries, light bulbs etc. can be brought to our Product Care Building on Fridays from 9 am till 1 pm only.
We will be making a decision around the possibility to re-opening our Free Store once the province has release it’s Covid-19 update in early July. Stay tuned for more information as it develops.
And as always, we want to thank the Recycling Committee and HIRRA administration for their ongoing work and support, thank you to our Free Store volunteer for their hard work and dedication, and thank-you to the committed volunteers who keep the gardens looking so good.
…..….See you up on depot hill.
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