Although we are moving into fall, we are still extremely busy here at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. Our shoulder season is keeping us busy and the recycling and waste materials flowing.
As we are writing this fall article for the first edition, we are also very busy crafting our 2022 budget for the HIRRA executive and assembly. We are noticing a steady increase in the materials we process. In the RecycleBC stream alone, this is most of your packaging made from paper, cardboard, plastics, tin, and glass, we have hade an increase of %30 from the previous year. This will impact our wage requirements in 2021 as we need to budget more personal to process more of these materials.
We reopened our Free Store in September adhering to the provinces directive to require everyone to wear masks in the Free Store. This of course requires more labour than anticipated in form of a “Free Store Greeter” who ensures that the provinces mask wearing protocol is followed. Unfortunately this as well has a negative impact on our wages budget as we did not budget for a person to be employed in this capacity. In order to continue to keep the free store open to the public in 2022 we have budgeted for additional labour to perform the function as free store greeter in 2022.
If you want, take the opportunity to have a look at the Hornby Island Recycling Depots 2022 budget on the HIRRA website at www.hirra.ca before HIRRA’s budget meeting this month and take part in HIRRA’s ZOOM meeting when this budget will be voted on.
Please note that as always, we are in need of Free Store Volunteers. If you have time and want to be part of an active volunteer body, please consider joining our team of Free Store Volunteers any Thursday through Sunday to sort and shelve all the fabulous Free Store donations that are donated.
Another reminder that 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 pass this cost onto our patrons.
Also be reminded that we no longer are 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.
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. Ensure that you have your waste disposal application printed and filled 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.
Please note that 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), and we no longer accept these plants in our compost and they must be disposed of in our waste stream.
A final note that household hazardous waste like motor oil, paint, batteries, light bulbs etc. can be only brought to our Product Care Building on Fridays from 9 am till 1 pm only.
And as always, we want to thank the Recycling Committee and HIRRA administration for their ongoing work and support, and a big thank you to our Free Store volunteer for their hard work and dedication.
…..….See you up on depot hill.
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