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Recycling Day in Fort Nelson

Details:

Fort Nelson will get their chance to support local recycling. You can bring all of your recyclables to the Town Hall on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 from 8am to 1pm. The Northern Environmental Action Team (NEAT), with the help of Roseanu Transport, will have them recycled!!

The following is a list of items that can be recycled at this event and a few things that can not:

BEVERAGE CONTAINERS

Empty and rinse all containers. Flatten cartons.

RECYCLABLE

    Cartons and boxes
    Plastic bottles and jugs
    Aluminium cans
    Glass beverage containers (e.g. beer bottles)
    Tetra paks (milk, soy and juice)

NOT RECYCLABLE

Broken glass beverage containers

BATTERIES

Clean and undamaged batteries. Sort batteries according to type.

RECYCLABLE

    Lead-acid batteries (e.g. automotive batteries)
    Rechargeable batteries
    Non-rechargeable batteries

NOT RECYCLABLE

Broken or damaged batteries

BOXBOARD

Flatten boxes. Remove lids and liners.

RECYCLABLE

    Cereal and cracker boxes (remove liners)
    Egg cartons
    Frozen juice containers (tin lids removed)
    Paper bags
    Shoe boxes
    Paper towel / toilet paper rolls

NOT RECYCLABLE

Boxboard soiled with motor oil, paint or food/grease

CARDBOARD

Flatten boxes and remove any packing material.

RECYCLABLE

    Appliance boxes
    Moving boxes
    Pizza boxes

NOT RECYCLABLE

    Styrofoam
    Foam packing material
    Cardboard soiled with motor oil, water or grease

ELECTRONICS

Clean and undamaged. Remove electrical cords and monitor bases.

RECYCLABLE

    Computer monitors and towers
    Laptops
    Mice, keyboards and cables
    Desktop printers, scanners and fax machines
    Televisions
    Radios
    VHS / DVD players
    Stereos / Home Theatre Systems
    Speakers / Amplifiers / Equalizers
    Satellite Receivers
    MP3 / CD / Cassette / Record Players
    Video Cameras / Camcorders
    Digital and non-digital Cameras
    Digital Picture Frames
    Cellular Phones
    Telephones & Answering Machines

NOT RECYCLABLE

    Commercial use printers, scanners and fax machines
    Small Appliances (e.g. coffee makers, microwaves, toasters) -      Small Appliances can be taken to Widesky, Fort Nelson, BC
    Appliances

GLASS

Empty and rinse all containers.

RECYCLABLE

Brown, clear, green and blue glass bottles & jars

NOT RECYCLABLE

    Ceramics
    Cookware
    Drinking glasses
    Incandescent light bulbs
    Mirrors
    Windows
    Plate glass

LIGHT BULBS (residential only)

Clean and undamaged.

RECYCLABLE

Compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL's)
Fluorescent light tubes

NOT RECYCLABLE

Incandescent light bulbs (old-style bulbs)
Commercially generated CFL's and tubes

METALS

Small quantities of all types of scrap metal.

RECYCLABLE

Ferrous metal (e.g. steel)
Non-ferrous metal (e.g. aluminum, copper, brass, tin)

NOT RECYCLABLE

Appliances

PAPER

Sort newspaper and flyers separately. Secure shredded paper in plastic bags.

RECYCLABLE

    Catalogues and magazines
    Mail and envelopes (plastic window OK)
    Newspaper and flyers (glossy OK)
    Office paper (e.g. construction paper, printed paper)
    Telephone books

NOT RECYCLABLE

    Carbon paper
    Padded envelopes
    Photographs and photo paper
    Thermal fax paper

PLASTICS & PLASTIC BAGS

Empty and rinse all containers. Secure loose plastic bags in a plastic grocery bag.

RECYCLABLE

ONLY items labeled with the numbers 1-7 inside a triangle, such as:

    Soda, water, mouthwash and mustard containers
    Detergent bottles, flower pots, milk jugs, shampoo bottles, spray     bottles, yogurt and margarine tubs
    PVC pipe
    Squeezable bottles (e.g. honey)
    Medicine bottles
    Bakery trays
    Large reusable water bottles, juice jugs

Plastic bags: All bread, dry cleaning, produce and grocery bags

NOT RECYCLABLE

    Disposable diapers
    Compact discs
    Credit cards
    Hoses
    Pools
    Shoes
    Tarps
    Toys
    Utensils

TIN & ALUMINIUM FOIL

Empty and rinse all containers.

RECYCLABLE

    Tin, aluminium, and steel cans & lids
    Metal lids from glass jars
    Food cans (e.g. tuna, soup, pet food)
    Aerosol cans (empty)
    Aluminium food containers, foil wrap, foil trays

NOT RECYCLABLE

Containers soiled with anything such as food or grease

Date:

Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location:

Fort Nelson Town Hall

Did you know?

70% of landfilled waste could be either reused or recycled

5 PET bottles yield enough fiber for an XL T-shirt

Only 1% of treated water is used for drinking or cooking

16% of Canada’s CO2 emissions are from household energy use

Idling a car for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than restarting the engine

A 500ml plastic water bottle requires 1500ml of water to produce

Heating costs increase 5% for every degree the thermostat is set above 20^o

2 lbs of “red wiggler worms” can eat 1 lb of food waste a day

Nearly a third of household waste can be composted

Only .01% of Earth’s water is fresh, available drinking water

5 billion drink boxes are thrown away each year in North America

Only 5-8% of the energy used by incandescent light bulbs is for light

Canadians take home over 55 million plastic shopping bags a week

8.7 plastic bags contain enough embodied petroleum energy to drive a car 1km

You can clean almost anything with vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda and water!

98 tonnes of various resources are used to make 1 tonne of paper

$1 out of every $11 you spend is to pay for packaging

25% of cosmetic costs go toward packaging

Keeping showers under 5 minutes/day can save up to 4,000L of water/month

Cell phones are replaced every 18 months on average, and less than 5% are recycled

Used lead-acid batteries can be almost entirely recycled

90% of the energy consumed by your washing machine is used to heat the water

A full bus can take 40 to 60 cars off the road

Eating vegetarian will save over one hectare of land/tonne of food

The average North American meal travels 2,400km to get to your plate

Except in extreme cold, even diesel engines only need 0-30 seconds to “warm up"

Grasscycling can reduce fertilizer requirements by as much as 30%

Canadians use more than 1.6 billion disposable coffee cups a year

Across Canada, it costs more than $1.5 billion peryear to dispose of garbage.

80% of our solid waste in Canada is still going to landfills.

1lb of newspaper can be recycled to make 6 cereal boxes, 6 egg cartons, or 2,000 sheets of writing paper.

February 2012

Recycling Day in Fort Nelson 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Fort Nelson Town Hall

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