Buying a higher quality product will last longer than cheap plastic ones; once worn down make sure to go to the appropriate recycling depots. Certain recycling centers use those “hard to recycle” products and plastics to create other things. Like trash bins, cutting boards, and mugs. Some good recycling centers in Vancouver, BC are:
- urban impact
- Recycling Alternative
- Go Green Bottle Depot and Recycling
- Vancouver Zero waste center
If you are looking for something more local, here are some depots in the Tri-cities areas
- Town Center Recycling Depot
- Poco Return-it
- Keep It Green Recycling Ltd.
- HSR Services
- Meadows Landscape Recycling
- Coquitlam Return-it Depot
Most depots accept paper, packaging, cardboard boxes, plastic containers, metal containers, cartons and paper cups, non-deposit glass bottles and jars, foam packaging, and flexible plastics.
These depots are beneficial because it conserves energy, reduces air and water pollution, reduces greenhouse gases, and conserves natural resources.
Something that is very important but very easy to do is putting everything into the right bin. Only 1 in 4 people do this, and although that’s 25%, this still causes an effect to the environment. Putting random waste in your green and blue bins contaminates the other things in there and gets incinerated instead of recycled.
