Subject: Tofino Town Hall
Meeting on Recycling: this Thursday night at 7:00 pm (Council
Chambers)
Town Hall
Meeting on Recycling
Thursday June
19
7:00 pm to ~8:00
pm
Tofino Council
Chambers
Recycling and
solid waste (aka garbage) pickup and disposal are managed by the
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD). The current contractor for Tofino
and Ucluelet recycling and waste pick-up and transfer is Son Bird Refuse and
Recycling.
Changes to the
residential curbside recycling program on the West Coast began May 19, 2014 as a
result of a new agreement between the ACRD and Multi-Material BC (MMBC). While
there are many positive changes in the program (such as new items being picked
up that were previously not), there is some confusion and frustration.
Therefore, Son Bird Refuse and Recycling has offered to host a Town Hall
Meeting to explain these changes and let us know how we should best be using the
current program.
Please come on out
to learn more about the recycling program on the West Coast and give your
feedback. Residents and business owners are welcome.
In addition to the
Son Bird owners (Chris and John Bird), Dan Harrison from the Raincoast Education
Society will be present (the RES is contracted by the ACRD to do recycling
education) and I will be there too, as your political representative to the
ACRD. We will all try to answer your questions as best we can!
Some good links to
take a look at before coming to the Town Hall meeting are:
- A
good, short video from Shaw about the MMBC changes in Port Alberni (very
relevant for Tofino and Ucluelet): http://youtu.be/yCeyzX0xdTs
- A
slightly longer video also from Shaw Cable, well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5qJwFGEqM
- An
informative recycling website for Tofino and Ucluelet: www.westcoastrecycling.ca
- Multi
Materials BC website: http://multimaterialbc.ca
- A
PDF of the current list of materials accepted in blue boxes: http://westcoastrecycling.ca/sites/default/files/content-images/WCR%20Info%20Sheet%20Double%20Sided%20-%20FINAL.pdf
- The
ACRD's Solid Waste Management Plan: http://www.acrd.bc.ca/solid-waste-management-plan
Regards,
Josie Osborne | Mayor | District of
Tofino | 121 3rd Street, Box 9, Tofino BC V0R 2Z0
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