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20 April 2009
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Green Spring Clean
Remember, it’s important to dispose properly of any items you do choose to discard. Aside from the bi-weekly composting and recycling programs, HRM has rules about how to dispose of a variety of items. Visit the waste management section of the HRM website (www.halifax.ca/wrms/) for more details.
Some associations exist also which allow us to properly dispose of specific types of items such as:
- Hazardous Household Waste Depot (HHW Depot): Household waste is not collected at the curb. This includes items such as: paint. See their website for more details regarding items collected and hours of operation at http://www.halifax.ca/wrms/hhw.html.
- Atlantic Canada Electronics Stewardship (ACES): Where recycle your lap tops, desktops, monitors, non-cellular phones and more to recycle them. Visit their website at www.acestewardship.ca/consumers/dropofflocations/hrm for drop-off locations and pdf lists with photos of all the items they do recycle.
- Canadian Wireless Association: Cell phone recycling programs and tips for erasing personal data prior to recycling. Did you know up to 96% of cell phones can be recycled? And that 300,000 phones were recycled in Canada in 2008? Help increase the number of recycled cell phones annually from the base of approx. 22 million subscribers in Canada, who often exchange their phones every 2 years. Visit www.recyclemycell.ca, and tell your friend about it.
Our neighbouring community, Truro, is the base for another good source about waste, RRFB NS. See their website (www.rrfb.com) for additional waste-related information that may compliment the HRM information.
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