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Province wants to improve recycling services
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Examples of e waste turned into Urbanmine on Rothwell Road in Winnipeg.
The province wants to do a better job of recycling or disposing of old electronics and household hazardous waste and wants your help to do it.
Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie said in a release today the province wants to improve recycling services in Manitoba and get industry to be more responsible for the waste associated with their products.
"This public consultation is one of the first steps in establishing the new programs," he said.
Household hazardous waste includes lead-acid batteries, medications, paint, antifreeze, microwave ovens, fluorescent lighting and products containing mercury.
Electronic waste includes computers, cell phones, televisions, video players and home-theatre systems.
Recycling or properly disposing of these products instead of throwing them out with household garbage conserves natural resources and protects the environment, Blaikie said.
Blue box, tire and oil recycling programs have already diverted a significant amount of waste from landfills, he added.
The goal of the new programs, to start next April, is to divert even more material from landfills.
The proposed programs would support permanent collection systems throughout the province and would replace the current government-funded household hazardous-waste depots and e-waste roundups.
The plans are available online and at Manitoba Conservation's public registries throughout the province. The deadline for comments is Sept. 27.
Comment documents can mailed to the Pollution Prevention Branch, Manitoba Conservation 123 Main St., Suite 160, Winnipeg, MB R3C 1A5. The email address is pollupreve@gov.mb.ca and the fax number is 204-945-1211.
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Posted by:HI-D-Ho
September 7, 2010 at 7:07 PM
It is a good idea as long as the province sets up recycling depots for all products in EVERY town in the province. I am tired of having to haul my electronic recycling 75 miles. We should have a depot in my town and every other town as well. Some provinces pay people to bring in recyclables. They do not charge them for the privilege.
Posted by:J Galt
September 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM
@whopaysforeverything - I have personally hauled an entire town's "recycling" to a city dump on several occasions.
@null - they do not. Don't look up what medications are in our water unless you want to be terrified.
When they ban plastic bags, what am I supposed to put the cat litter in?
Posted by:ErikW
September 7, 2010 at 6:15 PM
"The province wants to do a better job of recycling or disposing of old electronics and household hazardous waste and wants your MONEY to do it."
Fixed it for you.
Posted by:Stormed_Norm
September 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Getting rid of those single use bags from walmart/superstore etc would be a big step in the right direction.How about a sorting facility at Brady so more of that "garbage" can get recycled?It would also help in the cleaning up the dump.
Posted by:sputnik
September 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM
How about starting by upgrading our recycling bins with the larger 240L carts and then adding a service to pick up organic waste. I don't need a weekly pickup. Every other week would be just fine with me.
That would probably take care of 80-90% of my household waste and divert tons currently going to the landfill.
Posted by:Kat
September 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Winnipeg and Manitoba, for that matter, should be embarrassed by their so called "re-cycling program".
I moved to Nova Scotia in January of this year and was shocked and very pleased to see that they have a "total" re-cycling program.
For composting: home owners are supplied with 2 composting bins, one large one for our outdoor composting items and a small one for our indoor composting items. When your house one becomes full you simply dump it into the larger one.
Twice a week they pick this up with our recyclables and our garbage.
For garbage: Maximum garbage that would be collected in a 2 week cycle is 4 bags, only one of these bags can be a black one, the other 3 must be in a clear re-cycling bag.
Recyclables: BLUE bags or clear ones must be used and 8 bags is your limit (recycling bags + garbage bags = not more than 8)
We also have a depot to return our “drinkables” (ie: pop bottles, wine bottles, wine boxes, juice containers) At this depot, they also accept old T.V’s, computers and various other items.
Twice a year we have a “spring” and “fall” clean up.
This program WORKS and Wpg. should take a very serious look at getting something like we have here. You can visit: www.vwrm.com
It may be costly for the province to get it started but I am sure it would be well worth it.
I should mention we do pay a little extra for our refundable containers, but we do get half of it back when we return it and the other half goes back into the program.
Posted by:Catalyst
September 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Good, everything like this is a step forward. Time to force the issue and make people recycle.
Selkirk has a great recycling program that works. Believe it's one? free bag of garbage per household per week and unlimited recycling by blue box. Forced because of landfill limitations.
Ft. McMurray just banned all single use bags at grocery stores, Walmart, etc. effective September 1st. Absolutely wonderful. Bring your own reuseable bags or boxes, buy reuseables ($1.50 ea.) at store or just fill up your car from the shopping cart. Forced after a High School kid proposed the idea to the Municipal Government. You can make a huge difference kids. Next stop Oil Sands.
Posted by:null
September 7, 2010 at 1:30 PM
I would like to know if our lagoons actually filter out nuisance medications from our water ways.
Posted by:whopaysforeverything
September 7, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Talking to people at work about recycling, there is a lack of faith that what we put in to the current sorting bins actually doesnt end up in just another pile in the ground. Is this feeling widespread?.... I think so.I believe we need convincing that programs are working with evidence showing where diverted waste is ending up. We have a long way to go to reduce waste, if we were directly responsible to safely dispose of each piece of trash we 'make'.....we would 'make' far less.