As September has passed things have slowed down here at the Hornby Island Recycling depot. After catching up, processing all the recycling that we have received in the summer, we have been busy working on the 2024 operations budget for the recycling depot. If interested, please participate in the HIRRA budget meetings that are being held this fall.
Note the Free Store hours are Friday – Sunday from 10 am- 12 pm. All donations are collected on the east side of the Free Store at the large garage doors. 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.
Please note that our Free Store volunteers are still looking for someone to help with the removal and delivery of overstock Free Store items on a monthly basis. So…. If you have room in your vehicle to bring over a load of clothing to the thrift store in Courtenay at 971 Cumberland Road the next time you are on a town trip, it would be greatly appreciated. See our Free Store volunteers the next time you are up on Depot hill if you can be of any assistance.
There are going to be some amendments to the current stewardship programs that will hopefully include the small 1lb propane canisters that we currently are paying to have removed from the island. Hopefully, with the new amendments the cost will be past onto the user at the point of purchase, and we will not have to pay for the removal any longer.
We still have Earth Machine composters available at a price of only $115.00, taxes included. A reminder that broken glass outside the provincial recycling program must be deposited as waste.
The CVRD is planning to build an addition to the recycling building this fall/winter to house the ever-growing recycling streams. With electronics and electrical appliances representing the fastest growing recycling stream in Canada we will hopefully be able to use the new space to collect and process this stream.
When planning to drop off drywall call ahead to ensure our drywall bin is on the island and that there is room for what you want to drop. 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.
When planning to drop off large loads of construction waste please call ahead to ensure that there is sufficient space in our waste bins for what you are planning to bring.
We have been notified by the CVRD that starting in 2024 there will be an increase in the cost of the waste that we are sending to their landfill. They also recommend maintaining current budget levels. Thus, with the continuous rise in prices all around us, and a cost-of-living adjustment for the staff already negotiated, it will be necessary to raise the tipping fees for the Hornby Island Recycling Depot in 2024.
Finally we want to thank all our volunteers in the Free Store, in the gardens, and on the recycling committee, for all the time that you have been donating over the years.
……See you all up on depot hill.
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