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February 2020
We hope everybody had a good holiday season and that everyone stayed warm. As this article is being written we are just digging our selves out of a record snowfall. A huge shout out to Scott Hardy who did an amazing job clearing the depot road and parking lot this January enabling our staff to
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December 2019 & January 2020
Winter is here and things are still very busy up on Depot Hill. This is supposed to be this slow season. Since we recently started to compact and bale hard plastics in addition to the soft plastics which we already bale our workload has changed; and wow… there is a lot of hard plastics that
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October 2019
With the cooler weather business at the Hornby Island recycling Depot is slowing down. An excellent time to play catch-up from all the summer influx. We are currently working on finding ways to bale more recyclables in the hope that we can reduce the frequency of recycling pickups. Most likely this will increase our labour
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September 2019
This summer has been a busy one for the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. We were shipping two forty-foot bins of recycling weekly. The ever-expanding scope of recyclables we collect enables us to collect over 50 separate streams. Way more than your average Blue Bin Program in the rest of this beautiful province. Did you know
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July & August 2019
Summer is here and the we hope everyone will be able to keep cool as the temperature is going up up up. And so is our recycling stream. Did you know that we ship two 40-foot bins of recycling of this little island every week during July and August? Of course, that does not include
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May 2019
HIRRA’s AGM was held in April. For the first time in many years we had more members of the public interested to sit on the recycling committee than we have currently have seats for and there was an election. Kathy Sauve received the least numbers of votes and thus Judith Walmsley was voted in. We