a the workplace e is open 9 a.m. week, Monday s may also leave ing machine and the call. The calls per month, ch 31, 1993 had 8 calls, up 40% for local calls is » People calling Mainiand should -4321, fers a service - in the Greater Rrict. fe Hotline - for likely speak to ° ing says. that. ince the recent oOmposting was ga it stops.” a compnst bin aple Ridge sold Hear, and the: RMRS. - workshops, Pitt 600 compost bins will be offering ‘d.and leaf waste e: 463-5545 Pitt mmiunity services bles at the Valley One of the first things Spring does is to advise callers to visit a compost demonstration garden, found in many locations throughout the GVRD. There § the public can see the direct results of # compost; how compost feeds the earth § and how the vegetables, flowers and § fruit respond to this soi! conditioner. “I help people have composting, and their reward is se their own waste developed in resource,” she says. If you have questions about composting, Spring will be pleased to answer them. The Hotline is open for “calls seven clays a week at 736-2250. § Wednesday, October 27, 1993 ~ North Shore News - 49 Some of the Recycling Industries > FROM WASTE TO RESOURCE — Where do your recyclables go? Once your recyclables are picked up, they are trucked to a processing facility or transfer station to be sorted. Some organizations and municipalities (like Ridge Meadows Recycling Suciety, Delta Recycling Society and currently, the Kent Avenue Depot in ¥gncouver) have a transfer station/recycling depot‘intermediate pro- cessing facility where they can direct recyclables through 3 broker to businesses that can use the raw material (recyclabies). Most other municipalities contract to a recycling coliector like International Paper Industries (IPI) or ETL Environmental Technology Limiied tn pick up their recyclables. Both [PI and ETi also process and market these raw materials. Sonie of the businesses that buy your recyclables are located right here in the Lower Mainland, > Paper There are many uses for the variety of paper products coliected in the GVRD. Although some paper recyclables go out of the province, Paperboard Industries and Newstech take a large quantity of the varieties of Road plant: newspaper, phone books, ‘magazines, corrugated cardboard, box- s.Doard, glass centaiuers, milk jugs and food cans. Other metals, including white goods, are accepted at the transfer station across from the depot. A curbside. collection service for Matsqui residents will be implemented as soon as their, new -collection uucks arrive. ‘ Abbatsford sesidents have the option of . placing their bags of recyclables in bins placed throughout the community in 2 pilot program that will run until the end of February. Matsqui: 850-3551. aRRUEYEn, boxbosrd-liner. nolded containers tke egg cartons, 2uto dociliners, roofing tiles, low-grade stationery (off-shore use) boxboard, linerboard, packaging for consumer products 4h recycled content in new boutles of fats up te G0'a recycled content in new bottles with thicker structures like beer, paper collected here. Paperboard Undustrles, located in Burnaby. buys.all types of paper products from B.C., Alberta and the 1S, and recycles them at their mill. It processed 190,000 metic tonnes of paper in 1992, 20% of which came from the GVRD. Paperboard Industries makes linerboard, gypsum board paper, container board (such as cereal boxes and shoe boxes), and roofing paper. Newstech is the ouly de-inking miil in Western Canada. It huys old newspapers. magazines and telephone books, recycling 13,500 metric torines of paper per month. Thirty per cent of it comes from B.C., the rest from western Canada and the U.S. Newstech turns the paper into de-inked The GVRD will. recognize organizations in the indlust’ op pip Calso called recycled pulp or wet lap pulp), bales it and sends half of it to MacMillan Blocdel in Pon Alberni to be made inta recycled newsprint and new telephone directories. The other half goes to Fletcher Challenge in Crofton, to be made into recycled newsprint to be sold all over Nomh America. > Metals The metals in your blue box or depot bin are sorted and sent to a broker, along with many other types of scrap metals collected at recycling facilities. institutions and by industry throughout the province. Brokers Cor marketers) include Pacific Metals in Vancouver, National Metals in Richmond or Budget Steel in Victoria, among others. ‘The nearest stecl mill is in Seattle. Many of our steel/tin cans go to MRi Corp.. a de-tinning facility which removes the tin from the steel. The tin is melted into ingots and reused in . Gin cans or other appli- tations. The steel. is marketed for reuse in various industrial steel products. The market for scrap aluminum is highly com- petitive and much of it is sold to China. Aluminum is the most teadily recyclable product of all recyclables. Aluminum cans may go to Alcan’s recycling facility in Delta and on to Kentucky for manufacturing into beverage containers. > Glass Glass is sorted according to color: clear, brawn and green. Glass collected in the Lower Mainland is processed into cullet at New West Glass and shipped to Consum- ers Glass in Lavington. B.C. to be made into new glass products. There, it's mixed with virgin cuilet and used to manufacture glass containers. Consumers Glass presently uses 30% recovered clear cullet for manufacturing new glass bottles and jars. They have reached as high a rate as 60% in recycling amber glass back to beer bottles. Most green glass bottled products are , imponed and there's no visable market for it as recycled glass cullet. Aiter it's processed at New West Glass. the green cullet is marketea as aggregate or as drainage fill for use around the base of newly-constructed buildings. BC Hydro also uses it io fill their trenches around high voltage lines. & Plastics Eco Superwood and Merlin Plastics are located on Annacis Island in Delta, The plastic is recycled in both facilities by first chipping it, washing and processing it through an “extruder” that uses heat and pressure to produce a uniform size material called pellets, which are ready to be manufactured into new products. Eco Superwood makes a finished consumer product ~ “superwend,” of plastic lumber, while Merlin Plastics selfs its plastic pellets to a manufacturer. Pellets are custom made according tc the esder placed by a customer. The character- istics of the pellet are determined by the end product, which can be any kind of non-food plastic container or bag (Canada has strict regulations that do not allow recycled plastic in food containers), Pm Tires/ Batteries/ Used Motor Oil Metalex Products in Richmond is a recycling facility that takes in used automabile batteries and recycies the various components. Used oi! comes from all over the province to be re-refined into recycled motor oi} at Mohawk Lubricants. Innovative Waste Technologies Inc., located on Annacis Island, recycles 100, 09 tires per month, Tires are first reduced to crumb rubber with all the steel and fibre removed. Some of the crumb rubber is sold to other manufacturers for making products such as running tracks and trailer mats. The rest is used to make inter-locking paving bricks, Northwest Rubber Mats. in Pitt Meadows, recycles tires into rubber mats. The network for recyclable products is still in the development stage. As new markets open closer to home it becomes economical to add more recycling services. Where only two years ago we had almost no recycling facilities in B.C., let atone the: Lower Mainland, we now have many businesses that provide a market for recyclables. ig (This insert Is not an endorsement of any organization by dhe GYRD) ice,” ‘gmimercial and ‘institutional Gc. & 2) sector © that cah’ demonstrate . that they have made significant changes ‘ui now.-they handic waste through’ reduction, reuse or 1 ycling. ‘Awards will be presented during Environnient Week i in June 1994. ; . u teeycled con ent ta 2. beaches, aute parts, re aa iCOUR! coat Crecter: Vancouter ‘eaional District » Creating Gur Future ae smalt businesses Cunder. 5 employees) medium-sized businesses (5-25 employees) large bu: inesses Cover 25 employees) _ : organizations that have joined together ‘(such as ; shopping or business: Associations) to implenient waste reduction community- ~based organizations that are primarily: run through volunteer effors. malls Making ADL Ference by Waste Reduction - ¢/o Solid Waste Department ‘Greater Vancouver Regional District Lith Floor, 4330 Kingsway Burnaby, 8.C. 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