Regional District To Make Recycling Depot Changes
Prince George, B.C. – Now that curbside recycling is underway in Prince George, the Regional District of Fraser Fort George is making some changes to its recycling drop off depots.
The move will see some recycling depots in Prince George moved to areas where the curbside program that’s being run through Multi Materials B.C. is not available.
So, as of October 1, 2014, bins will no longer be available at the following sites:
- Bon Voyage Plaza
- Ferndale Fire Hall
- Hart Mall
- Nechako Bottle Depot
- Our Saviours Lutheran Church (Prince George)
- Lakewood Alliance Church (Prince George)
The New sites that Will have bins as of October 1:
- Bear Lake Transfer Station (Marshalling Area)
- Chief Lake Transfer Station
- West Lake Transfer Station
- Buckhorn Transfer Station
- Hixon Transfer Station (Marshalling area)
- Willow River Transfer Station
The following sites will see no change:
- Foothills Blvd. Regional Landfill
- Quinn Street Recycling Depot
- Vanway Transfer Station
- Cumming Rd. Transfer Station
- Shelley Transfer Station
- McBride Transfer Station
- Valemount Transfer Station
- Mackenzie
The Regional District says it will also expand the materials that will be accepted at the drop depot recycling bins. Right now, the materials are limited to newspaper, mixed paper, plastic milk jugs and tin cans.
As of October 1st, that list will be expanded to reflect the same kinds of materials accepted in the curbside Blue Box program. That means items such as non refundable glass jars, paper hot and cold beverage cups, ice cream containers, aerosol cans and caps, gift wrap and gift cards, catalogues, flyers, magazines and telephone books would all be acceptable. The complete list will be issued soon.
Comments
sounds like my recycle bin will no longer be available, so as I am a senior and live in an apartment and we don’t deserve the blue bins, do I drop of my recyclables in city hall dumpsters?
I like that PG is going to have recycling. But this new process seems to be making it harder to recycle not easier. Instead of additional ways to recycle we are now trading one for another. I liked having the big bins at the locations listed above. Saved up a bunch of cardboard and dropped it in the bins.
Now I have to take it to the dump or try and make it all pretty for the new blue box guys. You know what they say when you make a system harder for people to use??? Yeah, I can see a lot more stuff just getting tossed into the garbage. I’m not going to waste my time making my garbage pretty or making a bunch of additional trips to the dump!!
I’ve said it before and I say it again – this is going to be one giant clusterfudge…
Makes one wonder “IF” they really want us to recycle or is it just to give them a warm fuzzy feeling, and pretend to look good to the environmentalists, because they are doing something, though not much.
Agree with above comments. Would like to add that with the absence of a facility at the dump for the collection of usable articles (furniture, appliances, bicycles, toys, ad infinitum) there is a lot of unnecessary waste going to landfill. Some of the items WILL be garbage, but many could go to any one of several charitable organizations in PG. Too much trouble for many otherwise fine folk to run around and try to donate their unwanted items, so it goes in the dump. Why can’t the RDFFG and the Sally Anne/Big Brothers/The Salvage Store etc. arrange to have selected items picked up at the dump before it gets buried? A weekly run, have patrons drop the ‘re-usables’ in a designated area, such as the pad on which a salvage shed once stood? Obviously there are hurdles to leap, problems to solve, but right now there is too much being wasted.
metalman.
I love it…..people complain because we have no program. City listened and implements a program but it is not to every-ones liking so we all complain more.
the city could put a full service system in that made it super easy for everyone (because everyone wants to recycle until it is inconvenient then they have no care) BUT we would need a tax increase…..so then ‘the people’ would have yet another thing to complain about.
We had a program run by private companies that people could pay for on their own if they chose to. Now we have a program that we all pay for at the till with questionable benefit.
In most cases it takes more money, time, energy and resources to recycle something than it does to create it from scratch. Otherwise we would be paid for our recyclable materials.
“In most cases it takes more money, time, energy and resources to recycle something than it does to create it from scratch. Otherwise we would be paid for our recyclable materials.” Totally agree with this.
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