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July – August 2018
So it’s been one month since we added an additional stream of plastics to our collection process. We now are collecting Stand-Up and Zipper Lock Pouches, Crinkle Wrappers and Bags, Flexible Packaging with Plastic Seals, Non-Food Protective Plastic Packaging (Bubble Wrap) and Woven and Net Plastic Bags. These are all part of the new stream
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June 2018
Get ready to recycle even more. As of June 1, 2018 we will be adding an additional stream of plastics to our collection process. We will be collecting Stand-up and Zipper Lock Pouches, Crinkle Wrappers and Bags, Flexible Packaging with Plastic Seals, Non-Food Protective Plastic Packaging (Bubble Wrap) and Woven and Net Plastic Bags. These
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May 2018
The first quarter of 2018 has been business as usual at the Hornby Island Recycling Depot. We collected and shipped five 40-yard bins of household garbage, two bins of construction waste, two wood waste bins, three scrap metal bins and eight bins of recycling of the island. We shipped twelve skids of “Product Care” materials
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April 2018
The Hornby Island Recycling Depot wants to get tanked. More precisely we want to artistically have our water tank painted. We are working together with the Hornby Islands Arts Council and their tank painting project “Get Tanked” that has so magnificently beautified the island fire fighting tanks. We are currently looking for an artist and
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March 2018
Winter seemed to be on the way out as last months article was being written. In February however we were stuck in the snow for good. We had to close one Sunday as we received so much snow that the roads where not cleared in time for us to make it to the depot. Only