CITY OF P RT COQUITLAM
ZONE MAP & COLLECTION SCHEDULE EVERYTHING ELSE – GARBAGE CART & ALTERNATIVES BLUE CART & RECYCLING DEPOTS GREEN CART – FOOD SCRAPS & YARD WASTE BEARS & WILDLIFE – LOCK IT RIGHT! CART & COLLECTION INFO SORT IT RIGHT!
WASTE SORTING & SERVICES
Sort it Right!
2016 GUIDE
3 Reasons to
Sort it Right ! What we throw away is being closely monitored, and cities that don’t sort waste properly will pay large fines and higher fees. These costs are passed on to taxpayers.
2. Ensure your carts are picked up
Service may be suspended for households that continue to sort their waste incorrectly after repeated warnings and education.
3. Keep Earth healthy for our kids
The average singlefamily home could be diverting 76% of its household waste away from the landfill
Green cart 46%
Garbage cart 24% Green cart 57%
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Confused ? about where it goes? We can help you
Sort it Right !
Info, downloads and online waste-sorting resources: www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss 604.927.5496 Free PoCo Waste-Line app: collection schedule, resources and more. Download it free at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline Printed resources at City Hall and other City facilities, or drop by the Operations Centre to speak to staff
Where household waste would go with proper sorting
Blue cart 19% Blue cart 15%
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Landfills take up valuable space and harm the environment by releasing greenhouse gases (methane) into the air and toxins into the ground.
Where household waste goes now
Garbage cart 39%
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Sort it Right! SEARCH TOOL
Finding out where it goes is easier than ever! Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • Use the online version of the Sort it Right search tool • Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app and search on the go
NEW!
SORT IT RIGHT!
1. Avoid paying more
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Setting Out Your Carts When to set out carts
Waste Collection in Port Coquitlam
• All single-family homes automatically receive City waste services, paid for on their property tax bills. • Multi-family complexes and businesses are responsible for arranging their own waste services, either through a private contractor or by opting in to some or all of the City’s waste services, available at competitive rates.
To learn more about signing up multifamily and business properties for City waste services, contact 604.927.5267 or wasteloss@portcoquitlam.ca.
A greener choice
Information is also posted at portcoquitlam.ca/multifamily.
Waste Carts Three types of carts are provided for the separation of waste, identified by their lid colours. Sizes provided depend on the property type and needs. • GREEN CART: Food waste, food-soiled papers and yard trimmings. Provided in 120, 240 and 360L sizes.
Move unlocked carts to the street between 5:30-7:30 am on your collection day. Carts should be put away by 7 pm.
Set-out/set-back service If you have physical difficulties moving your carts to the curb and back, you may apply for set-out/set-back service to have City crews do this for you. Download an application form at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste (on the Waste Cart & Collection Info page) or call 604.927.5496. 3 m (10 ft) from overhanging trees
How to set out carts • Place carts along the edge of the roadway, with wheels against the curb (if there is one). • Place carts so they open towards the street. • Ensure cart lids are closed. (Overflowing carts may not be picked up.) • Ensure adequate space around carts: - At least 1 m (3 ft) between carts - 1.5m (5 ft) away from parked vehicles - 3 m (10 ft) above carts from overhanging trees
1 m (3 ft) between carts
1.5 m (5 ft) from vehicles
• BLUE CART: Recyclable paper, metal and plastic. Provided in 240L size. • GARBAGE CART: Whatever can’t go in the green or blue cart or be returned to a depot or return-it centre. Provided in 120, 240 and 360L sizes. Larger or extra carts are available for a fee. Contact 604.927.5420 for information or download a Service Level Change form at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste (on the Waste Cart & Collection Info page).
Cold Weather Collection
When temperatures dip below zero, your green cart may be picked up later to allow the contents to thaw. Hazardous road conditions can also cause delays.
Missed Pickup?
If your waste was not collected as scheduled, report it to 604.927.5496.
CART & COLLECTION INFO
The City of Port Coquitlam provides fully automated waste collection services to more than 18,000 single-family homes, along with multi-family and business properties.
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DON’T BE A BEAR TARGET!
The City has distributed wildlife-resistant cart locks to households that receive City waste services in bear-prone areas and don’t have an approved lock.
Proper positioning of cart lock
The locks are effective against wildlife if used properly. Check the steps below to make sure you are using your locks correctly.
CAUTION
For a step-by-step video and other info, visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/lock
Follow these tips to protect your home, neighbourhood and bears • LOCK IT UP – secure garbage and food scraps in either a wildlife-resistant enclosure
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(e.g. garage or shed) or with a City or other approved lock on your cart.
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• SET IT OUT – put out your carts at the curb between 5:30 and 7:30 am on collection day.
Other ways to keep bears and wildlife away
Hook the curved ends of each strap under the lip of the cart on both sides of the cart, as close to the handles as possible.
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Lay both pieces of the lock flat on top of the lid.
Other common attractants: • • • • • •
beverage containers BBQs and grease barrels compost piles pet food and bird feed diapers petroleum/chemical products
4 Ensure attractants are inaccessible to wildlife
Pick ripe fruit and remove fallen fruit
Lock outdoor fridges and freezers
Clean BBQ after use
The final step is to slide the pin into the clasp to secure the lock.
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To remove the lock, take out the pin, push in the safety latch, and lift the lever.
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Place the looped end of the clasp over the hooked end of the other strap, then push down the lever to close the lock.
Please note: the lock must fit snugly enough that it doesn’t slide. If it is too loose, unclasp the lock and turn the loop to the right to tighten, or to the left to loosen.
More tips and info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/bears SEE A BEAR? Bear sightings are closely tracked. If you see a bear, please call the Provincial Conservation Officer Service 24-hour toll-free hotline at 1.877.952.RAPP (7277) or go to www.rapp.bc.ca
Don’t forget to remove locks before setting the cart out at the curb!
BEARS & WILDLIFE – LOCK IT RIGHT!
After bears eat once from a garbage cart, backyard fruit tree or even a dog dish, they’ll return to these sources again and again, and teach their cubs to do the same. These “garbage bears” lose their natural fear of humans and can become aggressive, which endangers our neighbourhoods and eventually leads to their destruction.
Lock it How to use your Right! waste cart locks
GREEN CART: FOOD SCRAPS | FOOD-SOILED PAPER | PLANT & YARD WASTE
Accepted in Green Carts
Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/greencart for the complete list
Food is banned from the landfill. Using your green cart is as easy as:
food scraps and food-soiled paper in a pail, newspaper, paper bag or other container.
food scraps and food-soiled paper into your green cart, along with plant/yard waste.
3 SET OUT green carts at the curb between 5:30-7:30 am on collection day. All leftovers
Reducing your food waste
Meats, bones and shellfish
Rice, pasta and baked goods
Dairy, eggs and eggshells
Household grease, e.g. bacon fat, cooking oil
Paper bags or liners made of 100% natural fibres
Wooden toothpicks, chopsticks, skewers
Plant trimmings, flowers and leaves
Grass clippings and branches up to 3” diameter and 40” long
NO plastic bags or liners, even biodegradable or compostable
NO pet waste or kitty litter
NO treated or stained wood
NO rocks or soil
Why shouldn’t I just use my garburator?
Metro Vancouver households generate about 190,000 tonnes of food waste each year, about half of which could have been consumed. Food waste adds about $700 to each home’s annual grocery bill. Visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.ca for info and tips on food storage, recipes and ways to reduce your food waste – and your grocery bill.
Food scraps that are screened out of the water end up in the landfill. Garburators also overload our pipes and require us to use more chemicals and energy to treat our water.
Avoid the YUCK! How to keep your pail and cart clean without using plastic
Fruits, vegetables, seeds and pits
FOOD S SCRAP BAG
Wrap scraps in newspaper or used paper towel
More tips and info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/greencart
Food-soiled uncoated Food-soiled uncoated papers, coffee filters paper plates, cups and tea bags and pizza boxes
PAPER LUNCH BAG
Not Accepted
PAPER LUNCH BAG
Use paper bags or liners made of 100% natural fibres
FOOD S SCRAP BAG
Line your kitchen pail with newspaper
GREEN CART – FOOD SCRAPS & YARD WASTE
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BLUE CART: PAPER | PLASTIC | METAL Accepted in Blue Carts
RINSED AND DRY
Not Accepted in Blue Carts
Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/recycling for the complete list
NO plastic bags or soft plastic
Paper, envelopes, magazines, catalogues
Cardboard and boxboard boxes
Moulded boxboard
Gable-top and Tetra Pak cartons
Frozen dessert boxes
Paper bags – single and multiple layer
NO glass
NO plastic containers for paint, motor oil, lubricant or antifreeze
BOTTLE DEPOTS
• Biggar Bottle Depot, 2577 Kingsway Ave • Coquitlam Return-It Depot, 2554 Barnet Hwy, Coquitlam • Lougheed Return-It Depot, 1045A Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam
Shredded paper
Paper and plastic drink cups and lids
Hard plastic containers (any code)
Plastic clamshells and trays
NO soft or hard cover books
NO hard plastic toys
RECYCLING DEPOTS: GLASS, REFUNDABLE CONTAINERS, FOAM MULTI-MATERIAL BC (MMBC) DEPOTS
Paper gift wrap and cards
NO items with hazardous materials symbols
Everything that goes in blue carts PLUS:
Pails – less than 25L
• Biggar Bottle Depot, 2577 Kingsway Ave • MMBC depots (see left) • Other locations that take refundable containers
CITY GLASS DEPOTS • • • • •
Parking lot at Wilson Ave and Donald St Safeway, 2850 Shaughnessy St Hyde Creek Rec Centre, 1379 Laurier Ave PoCo Rec Complex, 2150 Wilson Ave Home Depot, 1069 Nicola Ave
SALAD
Garden pots and trays
Coffee pods (remove lids and put in garbage)
Metal cans and lids (with labels)
Foil wrap, containers and plates
Spiral-wound cans for Empty aerosol cans chips, juice etc. (no paints, chemicals)
Plastic bags and soft plastic
Foam containers, plates and food trays
Non-refundable glass jars and bottles
Refundable beverage containers
Non-refundable glass jars and bottles
More recycling info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/recycling
Take-back programs
BLUE CART & RECYCLING DEPOTS
SALADD
GARBAGE CART: WHATEVER ISN’T ACCEPTED IN OTHER CARTS OR AT DEPOTS
Garbage bags, including compostable and biodegradable
Ziplock bags
Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/garbage for the complete list
Cling wrap, bubble wrap, shrink wrap and cellophane
Broken ceramic housewares
Chip/snack bags, cereal/cracker bags
Pet waste/kitty litter (small quantities, double bagged)
Where Else to Properly Dispose of Items
Light bulbs and lighting equipment
Construction materials
Salvation Army (Elgin St) lightrecycle.ca
Coquitlam Construction Recycling Facility
Tires
Unwanted usable items
Household hazardous materials Biggar Bottle Depot regeneration.ca
Electronics
Small appliances and power tools
Scrap metal
Salvation Army (Elgin St) www.electrorecycle.ca
Woori Metal Inc. Google “scrap metal port coquitlam”
Vehicle batteries
Pet waste/kitty litter
Medication/needles
Biggar Bottle Depot, Happy Stans, Canadian Tire, Wastech
portcoquitlam.ca/dogs
PharmaChoice, Wilson Pharmacy, Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart healthsteward.ca
Biggar Bottle Depot returnit.ca/electronics
COOKIES
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Disposable diapers
Foil-lined bags/boxes
Mesh produce bags
Ribbons and bows
Foil gift wrap
Not Accepted
Plastic straws / cutlery
Canadian Tire, Costco, Gameday Automotive and Tires, Gordies Automotive tsbc.ca
Food and yard waste
Recyclables
Returnable items
Construction materials
Sort it Right!
SEARCH TOOL
Rechargable/nonrechargable batteries
Participate in City-wide Garage Sale or donate Happy Stans, London to local charities: Drugs, Best Buy, RONA, portcoquitlam.ca/ Pharmasave, Home Depot garagesale call2recycle.ca
Still don’t know where it goes? Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to use the online search tool or download the free PoCo Waste-Line app to search on the go.
EVERYTHING ELSE – GARBAGE CART & ALTERNATIVES
Put in Garbage Cart
TAKE-BACK PROGRAMS AND ALTERNATIVES
JANUARY 2016
Collection Zones Download calendar
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Never miss another pick pickup!
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Get personalized collection re reminders sent to your device from the free PoC PoCo Waste-Line app. Download at www.portcoquitla www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline
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ZONE MAP & COLLECTION SCHEDULE
CAUTION
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Zones are always picked up in the following order:
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Get a PDF version of the collection schedule and zone map at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste
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Sort it Right! RESOURCES Info, downloads and online waste-sorting resources: www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss
Free PoCo Waste-Line app: collection schedule, resources and more. Download it free at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline
604.927.5496
Printed resources at City Hall and other City facilities, or drop by the Operations Centre to speak to staff
Never miss another pickup with the PoCo Waste-Line app
Sort it Right! SEARCH TOOL
Find out where it goes Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • Use the online version of the Sort it Right search tool • Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app and search on the go
Information about City waste services: 604.927.5496 | operations@portcoquitlam.ca Operations Centre, 1737 Broadway Street (open 7:30 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays)
Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app today at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • • • • •
Get personalized collection reminders Find out where it goes with the Sort it Right! search tool Report a problem with any City service Receive emergency notifications from the City and more!
www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss