As Metro Vancouver considers building new incinerators to handle future garbage, the list of opponents is growing, with some jumping in to fight the plan. Few have been as bold or influential as Metro Van’s regional colleague and next door neighbour who recently launched an aggressive $50,000 TV and billboard ad campaign to fight the incinerator…
Burnaby’s neighbour wants to bring in an advanced material recovery and recycling facility, but the waste diversion alternative will most likely never replace incineration in Metro Vancouver…
The firm that runs the Cache Creek landfill wants to build a $30-million highly mechanized plant in Coquitlam to pull recyclables from garbage before it’s dumped or incinerated…
Metro Vancouver is considering a proposal to build a $500-million garbage incinerator on Squamish First Nation land at Port Mellon…
Metro Vancouver will vote today on whether to create regional garbage-sorting plants that would extract recyclables from waste. The move follows concerns that commercial garbage haulers were taking their waste to Abbotsford because of lower tipping fees in the Fraser Valley. Metro estimates it loses $5 million a year in tipping fees — local charges for dumping garbage…
Members of Metro Vancouver’s zero waste committee were dismayed when told by staff Thursday of the proposal by Multi Material BC to eliminate glass collection at curbside after the industry-led stewardship agency takes charge of the residential recycling system in mid-2014…
Metro Vancouver won’t give the neighbouring Fraser Valley Regional District an observer on an expert panel overseeing plans to build a new garbage incinerator…
If you are having the urge to purge your medicine cabinet of those bottles and plastic containers of old and possibly expired drugs, Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, and provincial health and pharmacy association officials reminded the public there’s a prescription for getting it done safely…
It now costs Metro Vancouver more to use the Cache Creek regional landfill because the dump’s owner is paying royalties to local First Nations and passing along the cost…
The communities of Metro Vancouver have adopted an approach to the management of garbage that puts waste avoidance and reduction at the forefront. Existing and planned recycling and reuse efforts are effectively removing resources from the waste stream before disposal, and organics programs are finding ever more innovative ways of recovering materials and energy from discarded food and green wastes…