Fall 2010
Waste Reduction Newsletter
Solar Communities in the Peace
Newsletter Now Available On-Line
is now available online at prrrdy.com. Hard copies have only been mailed to the rural communities. If you would like a hard copy of this newsletter, they are available at the Waste Reduction office. If you have received this newsletter in your mail and you would prefer to access this information on-line, consider contacting the Waste Reduction office and requesting a “No Junkmail” sticker for your mailbox. It will drastically reduce paper waste. To get your sticker or newsletter, call 1-888-689-6328. For more reducing ideas, go to pRRRdy.com.
Volume 14, Issue 2
SolarBC named 16 Solar Communities in British Columbia. Of those 16, the Peace Region is proud to claim 3. These forward-thinking communities are Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, and West Moberly First Nations. Because our area averages 1,100 hours of sun per year, these communities have committed to harnessing that energy to use in various ways.
Bus stops, crossing signals, and rooftop panels already installed.
Fort St. John •
Dawson Creek • • •
Solar hot water heating installed in City Hall, Fire Hall and Senior’s Hall. Solar stoplights and crosswalk lights throughout the city. Solar lights along the community walking trail.
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West Moberly West Moberly is the first First Nations community to be awarded the honour of “Solar Community” by SolarBC. The community has: • installed a solar hot water system on its commercial lodge. • installed a solar hot water system on one home. • provided solar hot water installation training for five members of the community.
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Domestic solar hot water has been installed at City Hall. Solar hot air heating will shortly be installed at the Public Works shop to supplement the gas fired furnace. Bus shelters with solar LED lights have been installed around the City. Solar powered trash compactors have been installed in the parks and at public venues. City is installing a net metering photo voltaic (PV) project for demonstration purposes this fall. Location is still to be determined, but will be in place for public viewing and designed to sell electricity back to the grid. Solar powered wireless technology is being used by the city to collect water use and treatment data.
City of Fort St. John 2010 Green Incentive Rebates Offered:
Name of Green Incentive Rebate Design House to Energuide 80 Certification Solar Hot Water Ready Housing Solar Hot Water System Installed Visitable Residential Accessibility
Inside this issue:
Number of Rebates 5 10 5 5
Recycling Chart
pg 2
Jewels Of pRRRdy.com
pg 3
Free For All
pg 2
pRRRdy’s Tips
pg 4
Reel NEAT
pg 3
Waste Assessments
pg 4
NLC Energy House
pg 3
Contact Information
pg 4
Rebate Amount $5,000.00 $500.00 $3,000.00 $800.00
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pRRRdy says… Waste Reduction and Recycling
RECYCLING AROUND THE PEACE Regional Recycling Program
Recycling Locations
This chart lists material collected through the regional recycling program. Material
Newspaper
Newspapers Flyers
Paper
Calendars Phone books
All Inserts
Office Paper Envelopes
Plastic containers, bags and milk cartons Yogurt tubs, ice cream pails Detergent bottles, milk jugs/cartons Plastic bags, shrink wrap. etc.
Tin cans and aluminum foil Soup cans Pet food cans Pie plates
Cardboard and Boxboard
Corrugated boxes ( wavy in middle ) Cereal boxes Cracker boxes Paper rolls
Glass is back. You can start recycling your glass food containers again.
Did You Know? You can now recycle even more! •
Answering Machines
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CD/DVD players
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Home Theatre Systems
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MP3 Players
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Stereos
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Telephones
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VCR/VHS Players
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Video Cameras
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Mercury Thermostats ( F SJ )
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CFL Bulbs
For locations in your area, look on prrrdy.com. under Recycle.
How to Prepare • Separate bin at depots
BINS Bessborough Landfill Charlie Lake-
Mile 54 Shell. • Dry • Clean • Shredded Paper in bags • • • • • •
Numbers 1—7 NO STYROFOAM Rinsed clean Lids off Squashed Stuff bags and plastic film into another bag
• Clean • Labels removed ( recycle with paper )
• Flatten cans • Clean • Dry • Flattened
Dawson CreekExtra Foods, Wal-Mart, Transfer Station Hudson ’ s HopeShop Easy Foods
Mile 62.5 Transfer Station Moberly LakeAdjacent to Fire Hall
Pouce Coupe-
Elementary School Rose PrairieCurling rink
Taylor
Willow/McMahon Dr.
Tumbler Ridge
Shop Easy Foods
DEPOTS
Chetwynd 250-788-1111 4824 - 54 St Dawson Creek 250-782-2020 925-100 Ave Fort St. John 250-785-0300 10107-94 Ave Tumbler Ridge Trans. Site
FREE FOR ALL There are some items that have not reached the end of their usefulness. That doesn’t mean that you have to keep them. Post them on Free For All, a material exchange site sponsored by pRRRdy at peacecountryclassifieds.ca.
pRRRdy says… Waste Reduction and Recycling Newsletter
Northern Lights College Energy House in Dawson Creek
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Reel NEAT
Energy House is an 807 m2 multi-use facility that combines classrooms and training facilities with demonstrations of energy saving and renewable-energy technology and a community meeting hall. The building will produce all its energy needs – electricity and heating – through a wind turbine, solar panels, biomass, and geo-exchange systems. The focus of the facility is threefold: • To provide training and education opportunities for people looking to work in industries associated with the growing fields of clean energy. • To provide the community with opportunities to see these technologies in use in the facility. • And to generate power to help the College reduce its carbon footprint. The project will be built targeting LEED platinum standards, the highest in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building rating system. NLC offers the only Wind Turbine Maintenance Technician program in B.C. Other programs will include solar thermal installation, solar thermal maintenance, solar electric installation and maintenance, geo-thermal installation and maintenance, biomass heat, and gray water and rainwater collection systems. The project’s completion date is March 31, 2011. For more information on Energy House call 250-782-5251 or 1-866-4636652 or check the website at nlc.bc.ca.
Start thinking about what you would like to say about waste management, local foods, and climate action. Now, can you put those ideas on film? Let those creative juices start flowing and we will give you more details later.
Dumpster Detectives This picture was recently taken at a landfill in our area. See if you can find the recyclables that shouldn’t be there. Do you recognize any of them?
Jewels Of pRRRdy.com Are you more of a visual person? If you need to see how something is done, check out these videos: • • • • • •
Compost Shop Green Wash & Squash Green Cleaning Why Sort? What Can I Recycle?
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pRRRdy says… Waste Reduction and Recycling Newsletter
Contact Us Every issue of pRRRdy says… includes some easy-to-do tips to help you help the environment...and maybe save some money too!
Did you know that Canadians idle 75 MILLION minutes a day in the winter? Here are a few tips to help reduce that number: 1. Don’t use the drive through. Go inside to order. Sometimes you can get your order even faster . 2. When you have to stop for delays on the highway, turn off your engine. 3. With computer controlled, fuel injected engines, it only takes 30 seconds for the engine to warm up. 4. When parked outside of a school, please turn off your engine. Their young lungs just can’t take it.
Waste Reduction Office
In Fort St. John: 250-785-6328 Toll-free: 1-888-689-6328 Fax ( 250 ) 785-6378 E-mail info@prrrdy.com Main Office 10027-100 St. Fort St John, BC V1J 3Y5
www.prrrdy.com Eco-Advisors
Dawson Creek & area 250-782-6399 email ecoeddc@neat.ca North Peace 250-785-6328 email info@neat.ca Chetwynd/West Peace Now hiring
Peace River Regional District
in Dawson Creek: 250-784-3200 In Fort St. John: 250-785-8084 toll-free: 1-800-670-7773 www.prrd.bc.ca
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NEAT can now be found at NEAT-Northern Environmental Action Team
Electronics Recycling
Encorp Electronics www.encorp.ca/electronics/ Cell Phones www.rbrc.org www.pitch-in.ca
Call or log on today for a free business waste & energy assessment www.pRRRdy.com or 1-888-689-6328
Another Way to Crush A Can
Fort St. John’s low flow toilet initiative resulted in a mountain of old toilets – which have now been crushed and processed by Nels Ostero Ltd. for reclamation fill. Now that’s a good example of reuse!
This newsletter was prepared by Northern Environmental Action Team on behalf of Peace River Regional District
pRRRdy says…This newsletter is printed on 100% post-consumer recycled, acidfree paper with vegetable based inks. If you don’t want to save this newsletter for reference, please recycle it.