Recycling Locations Expand List of Acceptable Items
Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:47 AM
Prince George, B.C.- You can add a few more items to the list of things which no longer need to go to the landfill.
As of July 1st, the Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA), the Canadian Electrical Stewardship Association (CESA) and BC’s LightRecycle program will increase the number of products they recycle by adding new items such as video game consoles, GPS devises, power tools, sewing machines and light fixtures to their list of acceptable items for recycling.
Additionally, the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute of Canada has also introduced a new program to recycle electric powered outdoor power equipment like lawn mowers and grass trimmers.
“It’s important to have programs like these in place,” says Rachael Ryder, Waste Diversion Program Leader with the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George. “It provides our residents with options that keep these products out of the landfill.”
In Prince George, BBK Bottle Depot will be accepting these new items, in addition to the other products they accept including bottles and electronics.
For a complete list of products that are covered under the product stewardship program and where the items can be dropped off, click here.
Comments
There should be a centre for dropping these items at the Foothills Landfill. Items left at the swap shed end up in the dump.
The future mining will be the landfills.
Quesnel has recycling for glass and plastics (shampoo bottles etc. PG is still behind times….
If my recollection is right, there used to be a local retailer who took in plastics, but it was so popular that they couldn’t manage it and had to shut it down.
I’m not an expert about the economics of recyclable materials, but if someone can’t put together a viable business which handles all sorts of recyclables and picks them up for free curbside, there can’t be much money in it.
Having said that, it’s good that BBK takes in a pretty large list of various items.
R3 Recycling takes plastics, tin, glass, and paper/cardboard. They cost approx. 100.00 per year and come once a month. They offer a tremendous service.
In Vernon they have curbside recycling, free, and they can recycle anything with the little triangle on the bottom of the container. The only thing that does not go in the bag is glass, they still have to take those to the bottle depots, but I mean why can’t PG step up and do the same?
Blue Jewel also offers curbside pickup of
plastics, tin, cardboard (flattened) & glass. They come twice a month on your areas garbage collection day & cost’s are about $120 a year.
Any municipal curbside collection would be paid for my taxpayers – there is no way it would be ‘free’.
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