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Compost & Waste Where Your Recycling goes Recycling makes a difference. Here’s a list of where your recycling goes…. • Corrugated cardboard, the type most large boxes are made from, are sent to Norampac Paper Mill, in Burnaby, BC. Where they are recycled into linerboard (the top and bottom layers of a corrugated sheet) and medium (the middle waffle or corrugated section of the box). Close the loop and buy recycled!! • All plastics are sent to Merlin Plastics in Delta, BC where they are melted down in to pellets. These pellets are remade into a wide variety of new plastic products like non-food containers, and siding for homes. On average, household plastics make up about 8% by weight and 30% by volume of household waste. • Newspapers, magazines, flyers and phone books are recycled into paper egg cartons and fruit trays in Washington. • Tin cans and aluminum are melted into new metal products like rebar, at Richmond Steel in Richmond, BC. • Glass is crushed and used at the landfills as cover. Keeping Bears away There are two agencies in the area to help you with keeping bears from becoming a problem in your neighbourhood:
Bear Aware - Joanne Siderius, Bear Aware Supervisor for the Province and Coordinator for Nelson and Area -Has solar electric fencing for loan and demonstration site set up
Get Bear Smart Society - Daniel Sherrod 250-358-2333 daniels@vws.org or Evelyn Kirkaldy 250-359-6611 eekbears@hotmail.com -works with people outside of Nelson to keep bears from becoming problems. They have a supply of bear resistant household garbage containers and electric fence kits available for purchase and a few to loan out to see if it will work in your situation |
