Although we are no longer in summer modus the Hornby Island Recycling Depot is still quite busy. Specifically the Free Store is still receiving a lot of action from visitors to our little island.
Our volunteers ask that you ensure that all Free Store donations are clean and in good working order. All clothing needs to be laundered with no rips or stains. Books need to be dry with no mold present. We ask that you please do not leave donations outside the Free Store when the Free Store is closed.
Since we receive more donation that we have room for in the Free Store, we share our surplus donations with other thrift organizations on the big island. We have been so fortunate to have a volunteer who has been taken truckloads of overstock to these organizations rather than having to send these items to landfill and having to pay for their disposal.
Another reminder that glass outside the provincial recycling program must be deposited as waste and can not be added to the old glass pile. At the moment the pile reached its maximum and we can no longer add to it. If you are interested in taking away some of our glass for one of your own projects, please talk to us.
It is important when planning to drop of drywall at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot, to call ahead and ensure that our drywall bin is on the island and that there is room for what you want to drop. Please make sure you have filled out the required paperwork available at https://recycling.hirra.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Dry-Wall-Waste-Disposal-Application-March-2017.pdf.
We have drafted our 2023 budget and have send it to the HIRRA executive for review so it will be ready for the upcoming budget approval meeting this fall. If you want to make sure you have input in how we spend your tax money up on depot hill, please make sure to take part in the HIRRA approval process this fall.
We have stopped using “single use plastics” bags in our material handling of refundables. You may have noticed that we are now using large reusable waste cans to collect some of our refundables, that we then send in large reusable “Super Sacks/Mega Bags/Gaylord Bags” off our island. This saves us on having to purchase said “single-use plastic “bags. An unexpected and exciting outcome from this material handling change is that it also has reduced the time it takes loading our refundables onto the truck.
The Free Store volunteers, the recycling staff, and the recycling committee had their first appreciation party since the pandemic. Fun was had by all, and we wanted to thank Kathi Kungl for hosting, and Judith Walmsley for organising the event.
Again, we want to take the opportunity to thank all those volunteers, Summer, and Full Time, who keep donating their time every week, working hard sorting donations and stocking the shelves, and spend many hours making the “Free Store” beautiful for everyone, our dedicated staff, our volunteer recycling committee and the HIRRA executive and staff for all doing their part to help our recycling depot operate.
……See you up on depot hill
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