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Thursday, 11 April 2013 15:15

New Program Recognizes Businesses for Zero Waste Success

Zero Waste Canada
Until now, there was no formal way for businesses to be recognized for achieving Zero Waste according to consistent standards. To address this growing need, Zero Waste Canada (ZWC) has established Canada’s first Zero Waste Business Recognition Program in collaboration with Zero Waste International Alliance.
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 18:00

Zero Waste Advocacy Groups Protest Incinerator Industry

Zero Waste Canada
Zero Waste advocacy groups are planning a protest and public rally at the Incinerator Industry Conference in Richmond, BC on Wednesday, April 10 at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel in Richmond. 
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Monday, 04 March 2013 14:42

Oh, the Possibilities of a Green Sunshine Coast

A bright light was shined on a deserving Sunshine Coast business last week. Gibsons Recycling Depot was awarded the Best Green Business for BC by Small Business BC. Owners Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington have worked hard for decades to set an example for other business owners and to show how going to Zero Waste can not only help our environment, but be profitable as well. 
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Monday, 04 March 2013 13:12

Gibsons Recycling Depot Awarded Best Green Business

Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington
Sunshine Coast's Gibsons Recycling Depot has received the Best Green Business Award for BC from Small Business BC. They were among winners across the Province in the Successful You Awards Contest. Gibsons Recycling Depot, owned by Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington, is a leader in environmental practices. 
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Thursday, 31 January 2013 00:23

Gibsons Recycling Depot in Top Five for Small Business Awards

Gibsons Recycling Depot in Top Five for Small Business Awards
 Gibsons Recycling Depot was named in the top five best small businesses in BC as part of the Successful You Awards Contest, announced Small Business BC.
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012 15:38

New Packaging and Paper Draft Plan for BC Raises Concerns

New Packaging and Paper Draft Plan for BC Raises Concerns
British Columbia is transitioning responsibility for end-of-life management of packaging and printed paper (PPP) from governments and their taxpayers to industry and their consumers. Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) is a not-for-profit agency established under the British Columbia Society Act. Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) is developing a packaging and printed paper (PPP) stewardship plan. They recently posted the draft plan for stakeholder review. Barbara Hetherington of Gibsons Recycling Depot addresses her many concerns with the proposed plan.
 
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 14:19

Electric Vehicles to Deliver New Service for GRD

Barb & Buddy with their new EV

Gibsons Recycling Depot is launching phase one of a curbside collection program for recyclables in Gibsons announced owners Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington. GRD will use two electrically powered Ford Transit mini-cube vans. With this new service, Gibsons could be the first subscribed curbside collection of recyclables in Canada, if not in North America, using electrically-powered vehicles (EVs), non- dependent upon taxes.

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Monday, 30 April 2012 13:36

Coast Glass Can Now Be Truly Recycled

Coast Glass Can Now Be Truly Recycled
 So you thought when you brought your glass jars and bottles to the depots they were being recycled? Well, not really. The SCRD crushes the glass and uses it as aggregate in roads and at the dump site. This is something that has disturbed many here on the coast for years. It also disturbed the people at Gibsons Recycling Depot. They have found a way to be part of the solution.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:18

Celebrate Earth Day April 22

April 22 is Earth Day, a day to celebrate and reflect on our planet Earth. Our human impact is great and we have a choice in shaping the future.

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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:27

Refuse Media Garbage

Newspapers, and Cable TV were the first things I refused.  It was too confusing listening to Democracy Now and reading Canadian Council for Policy Alternative's MONITOR (www.policyalternatives.ca) while trying to figure WTF the newspapers and TV were saying.  For example, although I'm sure this readership doesn't need one; my daughter brought home a Vancouver Sun, April 14th with the front page headline and half-page picture: MARINE LIFE IN SALISH SEA RETURNING TO FORMER GREATNESS. Actually our oceans are 30% more acidic having absorbed carbon released by our activities in the past 200 years.  Oceans are in  Peril with dead zones just down our coast the size of Texas.


Underneath this picture in the Vancouver Sun of a breeching Humpback Whale  is a pictured Pipeline, stretching across the mid-line in a supposed unrelated story about the purposed Kinder Morgan quadrupled export of tar-sands oil from Vancouver.  the 2 pictures mean.  Everything is OK.
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