These people will not be separating out their organics, to say the least.
I don't know how many times I've seen a big pile of paper in our garbage dumpster.
And here I am meticulously breaking all the paper and plastic/tins apart.
Posted 28 March 2015 - 03:45 PM
These people will not be separating out their organics, to say the least.
I don't know how many times I've seen a big pile of paper in our garbage dumpster.
And here I am meticulously breaking all the paper and plastic/tins apart.
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 03:53 PM
I must admit, I'm a bit of a recycling freak.
Here I am recycling toilet paper tubes, and my neighbors are throwing out 30 pizza boxes a week. Oh well.
Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:01 PM
Here I am recycling toilet paper tubes, and my neighbors are throwing out 30 pizza boxes a week. Oh well.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going to be charged with crimes against the environment and go to prison for throwing toilet paper tubes and shaving cream cans in the garbage on occasion.
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:31 PM
Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:35 PM
I don't know about that. You've got the same amount of stuff to truck around and the trucks probably aren't emptying out half-full.
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:39 PM
I must admit, I'm a bit of a recycling freak.
Here I am recycling toilet paper tubes, and my neighbors are throwing out 30 pizza boxes a week. Oh well.
A toilet paper tube can be used to keep the cord on the iron in place when stowing it away, or you can flatten the tube slightly to hold your sunglasses.
Pizza boxes are good for protecting your bone china dinner plates.
Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:42 PM
I just wrap the cord around the iron...
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 04:49 PM
I just wrap the cord around the iron...
Yeah, I agree but that's a guy thing.
Posted 28 March 2015 - 05:32 PM
People on the line sorting our recycling from garbage at the dump, is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than two or three sets of trucks coming by the house.
Probably not. Source separation makes for much cleaner products. We get a good price for our paper because the CRD tends to have fairly "clean" paper recycling. Source separation only forces people to think about what waste they are producing, because recycling is the last R (reducing the first, then reusing).
Posted 30 March 2015 - 07:24 AM
A toilet paper tube can be used to keep the cord on the iron in place when stowing it away, or you can flatten the tube slightly to hold your sunglasses.
Pizza boxes are good for protecting your bone china dinner plates.
Great ideas. Now, what do I do with the other 200 tubes we go through a year???
Posted 30 March 2015 - 05:26 PM
Great ideas. Now, what do I do with the other 200 tubes we go through a year???
Only 200, how many people does that service?
You can also use the tubes as napkin rings at your next dinner party.
Posted 12 December 2015 - 07:16 AM
It would appear that the CRD is now ready to tender the process of composting kitchen scraps here on the island instead of shipping the scraps to the mainland.
https://www.crd.bc.c...-kitchen-scraps
The timeline for this tender is short and closes before Christmas. The interesting part about this tender is that the successful bidder will be responsible for trucking the kitchen scraps to a facility for composting (and carry out the composting process and sell the compost), but the location for this facility is not specifically determined in the tender documents.
My guess is that the Hartland Landfill is about to go into the composting business.
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