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MUSIC TO THEIR EARS: DJ Vinyl Ritchie – a.k.a Scott Arkwell – entertains the crowd Saturday as New West’s new skate park was officially opened.
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New West recycling depot to close in 2020 Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
New Westminster’s recycling depot is leaving town in 2020. At a closed meeting in February, city council agreed to participate with Tri-Cities municipalities and Metro Vancouver in the new Coquitlam transfer station and recycling depot that’s being built on the former Coquitlam landfill site at 995 United Blvd. The layout of the future New
Westminster Aquatics and Community Centre facility prevents the recycling depot from staying at its current location at Sixth Avenue and McBride Boulevard. Kristian Davis, the city’s supervisor of solid waste and recycling, said residents will be able to recycle more items than those currently accepted at the city’s depot, including electronics.They’ll also be able to pay to dispose of items at the transfer station. “The added five minutes’ drive
time, if you are coming from somewhere further west of the depot, is probably not too cumbersome when you think of the new facility being able to accept far more items and being a one-stop shop rather than having to go to multiple locations,” he said. A 2017/18 survey of about 200 patrons of the recycling depot found that 77 per cent of respondents frequent the recycling depot regularly, with 37 per cent visiting once a week and 40 per cent visit-
ing once a month. Of the survey respondents, 27 per cent live in Queen’s Park, 25 per cent in Glenbrook, 17 per cent in Sapperton, 13 per cent in the West End, 12 per cent in Massey Heights, and seven per cent in Queensborough or other neighbourhoods. A report to council said staff investigated alternative locations for a recycling depot but found it wasn’t cost-effective to establish a new facility in New West because
of the high price of land, the proximity to private recycling facilities and the breadth of the city’s current residential recycling and organic waste collection programs. The report said Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody agreed to participate in funding the new regional recycling depot. New West’s annual cost will be $44,000, which is less than the $113,000 it cost to operate its recycling depot in 2017. Continued on page 3
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