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Waste Reduction Tip
Recycling Wood
Over 10% of our waste stream is wood. Recycling options for clean wood:
- Coquitlam Construction Recycling
1001 United Boulevard, Coquitlam
Phone: 604-526-6570
- Darman Group- Wood Waste Recycling
20408 102B Ave., Langley
Phone: 604-882-8597
www.cloverdalefuel.com
- Ecowaste
No. 6 and Triangle Road, Richmond
Phone gatehouse: 604-277-1410
www.ecowaste.com
- Urban Wood Waste Recyclers
110 East 69th Avenue, Vancouver
www.uwwr.com
Phone: 604-327-5052 | |
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Zero Waste Challenge
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If nearly one quarter of households across the region carve a pumpkin this Halloween, there will be approximately 200,000 pumpkins leftover on the morning of November 1.
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Go Ahead... Ask Us a Question
The Recycling Council of British Columbia Recycling Hotline has just extended its hours to include evenings and Saturdays. New hours are: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 8 pm and Saturday, 9 am to 4 pm
The hotline is a free, province-wide information service on recycling, pollution prevention, waste avoidance, disposal options and regulations. Live Information Officers answer over 120,000 inquiries each year! ‘Where can I take leftover paint? What about old tires? I have a few tonnes of wood- where does it go?’
 604-RECYCLE (604-732-9253) |
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The Zero Waste Challenge approved by the Board in early 2007 sets out to do two things with our region’s waste:
- Minimize the amount of waste going to disposal using opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle, and
- Give consideration to the conversion of waste to energy.
Across Metro Vancouver residents and businesses generate over 3 million tonnes of waste each year. Currently, 52% of this is recycled. The other 48% is collected and taken to one of two landfills (Cache Creek or Vancouver) or to the region’s Waste-to-energy facility.
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The Zero Waste Challenge will help us to discover new ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
By following the 3R’s we can likely take care of most of our waste either at home, or close by. But even if we become extremely efficient at the 3R’s, there are still going to be some items that we will need some help to ‘get rid of’.
For these we can add in two more R’s; Recover energy and materials, and Residuals (essentially what’s leftover). The 5R’s complete the waste management picture. |
The 5 R’s of waste reduction. |
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You can see from the diagram at the right that the more we reduce our waste-creating ways the less there is to recycle; the more we recycle the less residuals need to be managed and so on. | |
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What kind of waste do we generate? This chart represents typical waste from residents and businesses in Metro Vancouver. Currently, 52% is recycled. |
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The Zero Waste Challenge is part of the region’s new Solid Waste Management Plan.
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Energy from waste- how does that work? –After we have recycled, reduced and reused all that we can, there is an opportunity to capture the energy in the remaining waste. One technology available to us is to expand our waste-to-energy capacity.
 Waste-to-energy facility FAQs |
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Resources
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 | Composting Food Waste |  | Materials and Energy Recovery |  | Blue Box Recycling |  | Paper Recycling |  | Used Oil Recycling |  | Zero Waste Challenge |
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| | Zero Waste Glossary | Reduce | Making less waste in the first place; buying less, choosing products with less packaging, choosing better quality items that will last longer, maintaining and repairing items | Reuse | Reusing items again and again: donating reusable goods to charity, finding a new way to use an old item, online re-sale. | Recycle | Recycling takes a product and turns it into something else. Fleece from pop bottles, newsprint from office paper. | Recover (energy and materials) |
Large-scale composting and waste-to-energy can both be designed to capture energy from the breakdown or incinerating processes. | Residuals | Waste that is left after all the other 4 R’s have been exhausted. A small amount of treated waste will require final disposal, likely in a landfill. |
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Fast Facts
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