The Coast Waste Management Association
The Hornby Island Recycling Depot is a member of The Coast Waste Management Association (CWMA), a nonprofit organization formed to represent the waste management interests of government, non-profits, and businesses on Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast and Central Coast of BC
HIRRA (Hornby Island Residence ane Ratepayers Association)
HIRRA, along with our local Island Trustees, represents the interests of islanders with respect to local and regional issues. HIRRA is one of the principal service providers on our island, and has contracts with the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona for the provision of regional district services on Hornby Island.
CVRD Depots (Comox Strathcona Waste Management Recycling Depots)
Short Film about our Recycling Depot and Free Store by the CVRD”
Short Film about the 40th Anniversary of Recycling Depot and Free Store
Short Film about our Recycling Depot and Free Store by “Real Things”
Bob Cain has been documenting thet Hornby Island Recycling Depot since its incarnation. Here are many more pictures of our little recycling depot.
Hornby Island More information and pictures of our beautiful island off the coast of British Columbia.
Recycling Council of British Columbia (RCBC)
Canada’s oldest recycling council. Founded in 1974 and registered provincially and federally as a non-profit organization. Starting out as an umbrella group for community based non-profit recycling societies, today the RCBC’s 300 members include governments, businesses, non-profit societies, and interested individuals from all parts of British Columbia — and beyond. Thier mission is to be a non-profit organization that brings everyone together to work for environmental sustainability. They advocate waste avoidance and resource conservation through education and information services, and through participation in policy development.
An online environmental community with a wealth of contacts and information for the environmentally aware.
A community based program in Boulder Colorado, Eco-Cycle is one of the oldest and is the largest of nonprofit community recyclers in the US Founded in 1976, Eco-Cycle continues to promote a strong conservation ethic.
Sponsored by The Environmental Defense Fund , this rebuttal to the New York Times article, “Recycling is Garbage” is an excellent read.