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TERRACE - _ . The city’s first
full-fledged. recycling depot

‘opened its doors Saturday at a - 5

warehouse on Hwylé.,

The depot — started by Ran- -

dy Grelson and Scott Schooner
of the non-profit Skeena Valley

Recycling Soclety' — is now ‘ac-
cepting material at its building ;

behind Kondola’ Ss: Furniture.

They're taking paper — “in-.
cluding - newsprint “and.

magazines — as well as glass;
cardboard,- plastic aluminum
catis and tin cans.’ .

© They. hope to have volunteers -
on-hand to open the depot every ’

Saturday, as well as some yet to
be determined hours during the
week,

- “We're going to try io be
open an hour or two every day
through ihe week to run the
drop-off centre, sort the
materials and bale it all up,”
Schooner Says. 0:

. The recyclers have applied for
four subsidized summer
students under a Canda
Employment Centre program.
They’re also looking for more
volunteers, says Schooner.

-. The city loaned the recyclers
four new dumpsters they have
labeled and are using for collec-
tion.

- People can still drop
recyclables off when the depot
is closed, Schooner said, by
dropping the materials in the
labeled dumpsters.

The society has bought a
baler to bind up recyclable
paper, and it is working toward
buying or building a compactor,
Schooner added,

. He said the society eventually
waits to expand to commercial

SKEENA VALLEY Recycling Society members Jude Schooner,
celebrated the opening Saturday of the society's non-profit recy
taking paper, aluminum and tin cans, glass, plastic,

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pick-up, but for now the plan is
to set up an efficient drop-off
depot.

“The idea is just to get it up

and get it running and get peo-

ple usec to the idea that we're ©

open as a drop-off centre,”

Schooner said. ‘And once.

we've got that off the ground
and running I think we'll havea
little clearer idea a few months
down the road of which direc-
tion we need to goin.”
“We're trying -to. Tormulate

some ideas. to take to the city
and the régional district on. a
blue box system, but I don't
know how successful that. will
be right now. Apparently

they’re looking at their studies ‘
and advisory committees, but _
all ‘we can do is-talk to them and

see what they have to say.’

- The depot has plenty of room
— More than 4,800 square feet
of space — in the building the
society is renting from a local

In fact, he said, it’s likely the
depot will be taking glass froma.
depot operated in Kitimat bya
group called KUTE (Kitimat

Understanding. The Environ-

ment), .

“Well be running ‘down
there to. pick up-their glass,’? he
said, ‘“because they don’t have
a whole lot of storage space.”

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