Fall 2010 Waste Reduction Newsletter Volume 14, Issue 2

Newsletter Now

Available On-Line

is now available on-line 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.

Solar Communities in the Peace SolarBC named 16 Solar Communities in British Columbia. Of those 16, the Peace Region is proud to claim 3. These forward-thinking com-munities 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.

Dawson Creek

• Solar hot water heating installed in City Hall, Fire Hall and Senior’s Hall.

• Solar stoplights and crosswalk lights through-out the city.

• Solar lights along the community walking trail.

Fort St. John

• 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 treat-ment data.

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 commer-

cial lodge. • installed a solar hot water system on one home. • provided solar hot water installation training for

five members of the community.

City of Fort St. John 2010 Green Incentive Rebates Offered:

Name of Green Incentive Rebate Number of Rebates Rebate Amount

Design House to Energuide 80 Certification 5 $5,000.00 Solar Hot Water Ready Housing 10 $500.00 Solar Hot Water System Installed 5 $3,000.00 Visitable Residential Accessibility 5 $800.00

Bus stops, crossing signals, and rooftop panels already installed.

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

Inside this issue:

RECYCLING AROUND THE PEACE Page 2 pRRRdy says… Waste Reduction and Recycling

BINS Bessborough Landfill Charlie Lake- Mile 54 Shell. Dawson Creek- Extra Foods, Wal-Mart, Transfer Station Hudson ’ s Hope- Shop Easy Foods Mile 62.5 Transfer Station Moberly Lake- Adjacent to Fire Hall Pouce Coupe- Elementary School Rose Prairie- Curling 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

Recycling Locations

Material How to Prepare

Paper Calendars Office Paper Phone books Envelopes

• Dry • Clean • Shredded Paper in bags

Plastic containers, bags and milk cartons Yogurt tubs, ice cream pails Detergent bottles, milk jugs/cartons Plastic bags, shrink wrap. etc.

• Numbers 1—7 • NO STYROFOAM • Rinsed clean • Lids off • Squashed • Stuff bags and plastic film

into another bag

Tin cans and aluminum foil Soup cans Pet food cans Pie plates

• Clean • Labels removed ( recycle

with paper ) • Flatten cans

Cardboard and Boxboard Corrugated boxes ( wavy in middle ) Cereal boxes Cracker boxes Paper rolls

• Clean • Dry • Flattened

Glass is back. You can start recycling your glass food containers again.

Newspaper Newspapers All Inserts Flyers

• Separate bin at depots

Regional Recycling Program

This chart lists material collected through the regional recycling program.

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.

Did You Know? You can now recycle even more!

• Answering Machines • CD/DVD players • Home Theatre Systems • MP3 Players • Stereos • Telephones • VCR/VHS Players • Video Cameras • Mercury Thermostats ( F SJ ) • CFL Bulbs For locations in your area, look on prrrdy.com. under Recycle.

pRRRdy says… Waste Reduction and Recycling Newsletter Page 3

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?

Northern Lights College Energy House in Dawson Creek

   

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 1-866-463-6652 or check the website at nlc.bc.ca.

Reel NEAT

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.

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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, acid-

free paper with vegetable based inks.

If you don’t want to save this newsletter

for reference, please recycle it.

Every issue of pRRRdy says… includes some easy-to-do tips to help you help the

environment...and maybe save some money too!

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!

Contact UsContact UsContact Us 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 Keep up on Facebook

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

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.