More recycling services means more options.
That's what many North Shore residents discovered
soon after they received their new Yellow Bags for
recycling. The Yellow: Bag is the latest addition to the
new improved Blue Box recycling program. in
addition apartment and townhouse dwellers have
seen their recycling options jump to a new level as
well with the addition of a new collection service.

Recycling services for North Shore residents have
been increased dramatically. Now a new selection of
items can be easily recycled at the curb or in an
apartment building. Everything from cereal boxes to
shampoo botiles to grass clippings* can now be put
out for convenient recycling collection.

The new Yellow Bag is for recycling Mixed Paper -
things like magazines, paper bags, junk mail and
more. Apartment dwellers now have a brand new
Recycling Cart in their buildings specifically for
Mixed Paper.

The Blue Box just got bigger too. 11 didn't actually
grow but the number of plastics that can be placed
inside for recycling has grown substantially. Where
only plastic milk jugs and pop bottles once stood,
now almost any plastic botle with the recycling sym-
bols 1 or 2 samped in the bottom can be recycled.

Recycling makes sense. Plain and simple.
Recycling can benefit you and the community you
live in. Recycling can also benefit the bouom line - in
your own home it can save you money and in the
community at large in can reduce our waste han-
dling cosis at the municipal level and reduce our
dependency on costly landfills and elaborate

garbage disposal systems.

Better For You
Garbage isn't free. Neither is recycling collection,
it does cost less than garbage collection —

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maximum limit may even be lowered again
in the future. This may be necessary in order
to meet the provincial mandate that requires all
municipalities to cut in half the amount of garbage
we send away for disposal by the year 2000.
Recycling can allow you to control these expenses
directly. By recycling all of your recyclable paper,
plastic and yard trimmings* you can ensure you're
always well within the garbage limit.
When you recycle, you end up with fewer bags of
garbage. And wouldn't you rather take out the

garbage less often anyway?

Betier for your community
ana the North Shore

The North Shore is an avid recycling community.
From Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove, recycling boxes
and bags are lining the streets and lanes each

*yard trimmings recycling service is not available for multi-family dwellings such as apartment buildings

week on collection day. And for every bag full of
recyclables that is set out, one mere hag of
garbage disappears. That means less
garbage has to be hauled away
for disposal. Some of our
garbage has to be hauled
as far away as Cache
Creek - over 300 kilo-
metres away. Since
garbage costs your
municipality more
per kilogram than
recycling, the entire
community — benefits
whenever recyclabJe
items are spared the trip to
the landfill in a garbage bag and

placed in a recycling box or bag instead.
Recycling creates new business opportunities
and new jobs too. There are always new prod-
ucts coming into the market place that are
made out of recycled materials and more are
still needed. Recyclables, unlike garbage, are
valuable commodities requiring processing,
manufacturing and marketing expertise and
labour to take them from the curb and all the
way back to a supermarket or department store
shelf as a new product.

Better for your children
and future cenerations
Less garbage and more recycling means less
pollution. Less IS more. More recycling means
fewer natural resources are lost forever when

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they are dumped and buried in landfills or burnt
into toxic ashes in garbage incinerators.

it takes a lot of energy to mine the metai that
goes into making a pop can or soup can. Throwing
it all away into a landfill or incinerator
is a senseless waste that future generations low
on natural resources will be har¢. pressed to
understand.

Recycling your metal cans is easy. All the hard
work has already been done pulling the ore out of
the ground and refining it into the meta! can sitting
on your kitchen counter. All that has to be done

now to make 2 new can is to re-melt the old one.
Simple. Clean. Smart.

Recycling not only conserves resources so there
is more for everyone now and in the future, but it
also reduces pollution in the process. Making a
new aluminum can from scratch creates large
amounts of pollution to extract and refine the raw
ore. Re-melting an existing aluminum can to make
a new one only requires 5% of the energy needed
to make a new can from scratch. That’s big energy
savings - and 2 great reduction in pollution.

Still waiting for the
yellow bag or need a
ive box or blue bag?

Don’t sit on the sidelines - get in and join the
recycling line-up along your street. If you don’t
yet have one of the new Yellow Bags for recycling
Mixed Paper, just cull IPI at 929-3416 and they'll
send one to you. Lost your Blue Box or Blue Bag,
call IPI and they can arrange to replace them for
you. Recycling is Easy and Just Makes Sense.

Bo you live in an
apartment? or tewnhouse
and want to get started
but don’t know how?

Almost all multi-family dwelliags like apart-
ment buildings and townhouse complexes have
now been upgraded with the new improved
Recycling Cart system. Within a central area of ”
cach building or complex you should have
access to large Recycling Carts for conveniently
dropping off your recyclables. Contact your
building manager, property manager or strata
council representative if you do not know where
your building's recycling carts are located.
you know you don’t yet have the recycling ser-
vice, ask your building manager or strata coun-
cil 10 contact the North Shore Recycling
Program to have the Recycling Carts delivered
and set up at no additional charge. The collec-
tion service is already included within your
municipal properiy tax or utility bill.

Want to find out more?
Recycling Collection:
international Paper industries (IP1}

929-3416
981-3124

NORTH SHORE RECYCLING PROGRAM Recycling Drop-off Depot ;

732-9283

The North Shore Recycling Program is your local municipal recycling

department, Joindy funded by the City of North Vancouver, the District of
North Vancouver and the District of West Vancouver, it plans and administers

all meaicipal recycling and waste reduction activities on the North Shere.

987-7155
990-3890
929-3416

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