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Waste Reduction

Peace River Regional District

NEAT holds the Waste Reduction Education contract for the Peace River Regional District. This includes the operation of the toll-free “Green Line,” maintenance of the program’s website, distribution of the quarterly pRRRdy Says… newsletter, and delivery of educational programming and support to businesses, schools and community groups.

TO FIND

Recycling information
Landfill hours of operation
Waste Assessments
Waste reduction ideas
pRRRdy Says Newsletter

Visit the pRRRdy website

Northern Rockies Regional Municipality

NEAT is also privileged to hold a Waste Reduction contract with Northern Rockies Regional Municipality. NEAT provides Fort Nelson with an Eco-Advisor that can provide educational programs and support for residents, schools and businesses in the efforts to reduce the amount of solid waste going to the land fill. Attached is a PDF of the Fort Nelson Green Directory. This gives you local recycling options to assist in your efforts.

Attachments:

Fort Nelson Green Directory

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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