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November 2023
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
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October 2023
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
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September 2023
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
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July & August 2023
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
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June 2023
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
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May 2023
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