With Easter just around the corner, things are starting to warm up here at the Hornby Island Recycling depot.
The CVRD’s contractors have almost completed the construction of the addition to the recycling building. As mentioned in earlier articles, this space will be used to store old broken electronics and electrical appliances before shipping them to the recycler and will be, like the recycling storage area, off limits to the public. Electronics and electric appliances in working order will be collected in the Free Store for our patrons to reuse.
The tipping fees for solid waste at the CVRD landfill will be increasing from $155 per tonne to $165 per tonne this month. The cost for Drywall will increase from $275 per tonne to $285 per tonne as well. In October the cost for construction and demolition waste will increase from $155 per tonne to $205 per tonne. The recycling committee is currently in discussion on how these price increases will impact on our pricing structure at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot, and we anticipate following suit and likely will be raising our construction and demolition waste prices in October as well.
Again, the Free Store Volunteers would like to request that, please, only items that are in excellent working order are brought to the Free Store. In March we had to discard at least five backhoe buckets of donations that were beyond re-using, repurposing, and/or recycling.
We are looking forward to receiving approval for our 2025 operating budget from the CVRD by May 2025.
Please note again that our new website is available online at https://recycling.hirra.ca.
We want to remind that all cardboard brought to the recycling centre needs to be dry and should be cut down to pieces smaller than 76cm by 76cm (30 inches by 30 inches), so our staff can easily process the material. It is very important that cardboard boxes are not trampled and stomped on, as this increases the workload for our employes. Stomped on and trampled cardboard boxes will then need to be un-stomped and un-trampled by staff before they can be processed. The staff really appreciate your help.
Our composters have arrived. Unfortunately, their shipping cost has increased, and we will now have to charge $125.00 to break even.
It is important that you call ahead when you want to drop off drywall, so we can confirm that we can accept your drywall, that 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-content/uploads/2024/11/Dry-Wall-Waste-Disposal-Application-March-2017.pdf.
Also, 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. The same goes for trailers, 5th wheels, and boats. For trailers and boats, it is important that there are no fluids present whatsoever.
Again, we want to take the opportunity to thank our hardworking staff for their contributions to making our depot run smoothly.
And as always, we want to thank all our volunteers in the Free Store, in the gardens, and the recycling committee for all the time that they have been donating over the years.
……See you all up on depot hill.
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