We are welcoming 2023 and hope that our patrons and everyone else on our little island have had an enjoyable holiday season.
With the new year we are now accepting more materials in our recycling stream. In addition to recyclable packaging, you can now drop of many of your “single use products & packaging-like products” at you Hornby Island Recycling Depot. These are items such paper plates, paper cups, plastic straws, plastic utensils. party décor, dental floss case, plastic hangers and many more items. To view an exact list on everything that has been added, you can visit www.recyclebc.ca/newitems and check it out.
Did you know that you can recycle your old, non-working, writing utensils at “Staples Business Depot” in Courtenay. Just bring them to the store and you can put them into on of their collection boxes.
The Comox Valley Regional District has increased their prices for waste disposal this January 2023 and as Hornby Island’s waste is shipped to the district’s landfill this will mean that our cost will be affected as well. How we will have to adjust our pricing here at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot will be on of this year’s missions for the recycling committee and the management.
The CVRD’s budget approval process requires the approval of our 2023 budget by our regional director and the CVRD board and the approval process should be completed by March.
We are still looking at the possibilities to set up some sort of re-use area for useful “used” building materials. Note that this area would need to be organized and supervised likely by volunteers, similar to the Free Store. So….If there are any potential “re-use” volunteers out there that would like to be involved in such a project, please 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 in 2023.
We wanted to remind everyone again that glass outside the provincial recycling program must be deposited as waste and can no longer be added to the old glass pile. At the moment the pile has 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.
And a reminder when planning to drop of drywall to call ahead to ensure our drywall bin is on the island and that there is room for what you want to drop. As well 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.
Thank You to all our volunteers in the Free Store, in the gardens, and at the recycling committee for all your time that you have been donating over the years.
……See you up on depot hill
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