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Winter is here and things have slowed down at the Hornby Island Recycling depot. Our 2024 operations budget was approved by the HIRRA assembly and now will need approval from the CVRD board of directors. We hope to have their support and receive approval by May 2024. As noted in in our 2024 budget there…

November is here and things are starting to slow down at the Hornby Island Recycling depot. Please note that the Hornby Island Recycling Depot and Free Store will be closed on the Remembrance Day statutory holiday, Saturday, November 11 2023. We have completed our 2024 budget for the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. If interested, please…

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…

Summer has passed and like every summer we were very busy here at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. Please note that after labour day we will switch back to regular opening hours, Friday – Sunday, 9 am until 1 pm. You can visit the Free Store Friday – Sunday from 10 am- 12 pm. All…

Summer is here at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot and so is the dust. The dust levels get so high at times that the staff need to wear dust masks even inside the recycling building. We would like to ask all patrons visiting the Hornby Island Recycling Depot to slow down and not exceed the…

Summer is here and Hornby Island Recycling Depot and so is the dust. We would like to ask all patrons visiting the holy island recycling depot to slow down and not exceed speed of 10 km/h to help us minimize the dust in the air so we can all breathe cleaner air. We want to…

As we are moving into warmer weather, we wanted to remind everyone again that we have added a new recycling stream last month and we are now collecting cigarette waste which we will ship to the recycler TERRACYCLE. There the cigarette waste is cleaned and separated by material type. The materials are then recycled into…

Spring has sprung at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot.  Note that we have added another new recycling stream this month and we are now collecting cigarette waste which we will ship to the recycler TERRACYCLE where the cigarette waste is cleaned and separated by material type. The materials are then recycled into raw formats that…

2023 is moving fast and we have almost finished the first quarter of the year.  We want to again, take the opportunity to let everyone know that we are now accepting even more materials in our recycling streams. In addition to the regular Recyclable Packaging, you can now drop of your Single Use Products &…

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”…