Greetings from Depot Hill. As we are writing this month’s missive to our patrons, we would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone many happy holidays this festive season.
With pandemic protocols still with us and the current natural disasters in BC forcing us to suspend the collection of foam and glass we are working hard to continue to service this small community as best we can. At this time we do not know how long the glass and foam suspension will continue and are asking our patrons to stockpile these materials at home until collection can resume. We will communicate any changes and updates about our service capacity via social media, our web page, our island’s radio station CHFR at 96.5 and the “Tribune” our local weekly publications.
We would like to remind everyone that we will be closed Christmas Day December 25th and Boxing Day December 26th as well as New Year’s Day January 1st 2022.
Our Free Store’s opening hours are Friday – Sunday from 9am till 1pm and is also closed on all statutory holidays. Donations are accepted in the shipping container by the main entrance. Please only send items that are clean and in good working condition. Books also should be placed in the container and not in the library.
Vince Van Tongeren the CVRD’s Environmental Analyst has prepared a staff report around the idea of a Composting Toilet Residuals Processing facility at the Recycling Depot. He will share this staff report with our community at the HIRRA meeting in February and we encourage all interested parties to attend this meeting to find out more about Composting Toilet Residuals Processing on Hornby Island.
We have been collecting and stockpiling window glass for many years now in order to find way to recycle this waste product. We have not been able to find a viable solution and are finding ourselves in a position to likely having to landfill our large glass pile. We also are contemplating to restrict the collection of glass as a recyclable product and start sending this material to landfill. We would continue to accept intact glass panes from windows for reuse but would have to landfill all other glass that is not part of the provincial packaging program. We are looking for other solutions and would welcome any thoughts on how to make use of the broken glass we receive other than landfilling it.
A 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.
Remember to 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.
Note again 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.
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