Winter has arrived at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot, and we are finally expecting the long awaited slow down. We want to take this opportunity and wish all our patrons, volunteers, staff and the HIRRA executive many happy holiday wishes, and would like to remind everyone that we will be closed Christmas Day December 25th, 2022, and New Year’s Day January 1st 2023.
It has been an active year with many new adjustments. We reopened our Free Store with new opening hours after the masking mandate was lifted this spring. Shall masking mandates issued again we will likely have to close the Free Store again.
With a new liability insurance provider taking care of HIRRA’s insurance needs, came stricter requirements to adhere to provincial guidelines along scavenging and we had to remove the large piles of scrap metal and wood waste from our yard.
We are looking at possibilities to set up some sort of re-use area for useful “used” building materials. This area would need to be organized and supervised likely by volunteers, similar to the Free Store. If there are any potential “re-use” volunteers out there that would like to be involved in such a project, let us know that you are available and interested. With the right amount of volunteer participation we might be able introduce a repurposing program for building materials on here on Hornby Island.
Our volunteers have asked “please” 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. Always check in with a volunteer if what you want to donate to the Free Store is acceptable.
Please note draft our 2023 budget was approved be the HIRRA membership at the November HIRRA meeting. We thank you for your participation and your approval.
We will stop selling our prepaid waste tickets in January 2023 and December 31st is the last day they will be available unless we run out beforehand. Once we run out of tickets, we will not be printing any more. These tickets, even though very convenient, were only a COVID-19 measure that is costly and places an additional burden onto the waste stream. We will continue to accept any tickets you purchased for some time to come.
We are looking for a Beach Access Recycling and Waste Pick-Up Contractor. If you, or if you know someone who might be interested in collecting the recycling and waste from Hornby Island’s beach access points and dropping them off at the Recycling Depot, please contact us at recycling@hirra.ca or talk to us in the office during opening hours.
Again, we want to thank all those volunteers, Summer, and Full Time, past, present, and future, 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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