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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tax increase for water, garbage
Hitting the streets for Vanderhoof-wide spring cleaning
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Volunteers were undeterred by rain on Apr. 23 for the Vanderhoof Community Clean-up, as they sign up for a designated street, pick up event t-shirts, gloves and garbage bags, deploy all over town, then regroup afterwards for a celebratory barbecue at Riverside Park. The event was hosted by the Nechako Waste Reduction Initiative.
The cost for water to continue running through Vanderhoof’s pipes is slated to more than double for taxpayers in the next 10 years. To replace Vanderhoof’s aging water tank and garbage truck, the district council is considering to raise its water frontage tax by $1.68 for the next 10 years, and increase its price for garbage collecting by 38.2 per cent for five years. For example, owners of a 66-foot lot would pay $209.88 each year instead of $99 for water, and garbage collection for a residence would increase from $87 to $120.25 per year. During council meeting on Apr. 18, the rate increases are added to the 2016 Financial Plan, which would be finalized before May 15. See more council updates on page 4
RDBN: banning commercial cardboard from landfill Vivian Chui Omineca Express Businesses and institutions will need to shoulder recycling costs for their cardboard as of July 1, when non-residential corrugated cardboard will be banned from Vanderhoof’s transfer station, the regional district says.
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RDBN’s Janine Dougall. A robust recycling market — where the collected material is reused — already exists for cardboard, Dougall added. According to an audit performed in 2008 on the regional district’s waste, corrugated cardboard makes up 10 per cent of the region’s landfills. In Burns Lake, 70 to 80 per cent of contributed
cardboard came from institutions, businesses, and industries, she said. Laminated or waxed cardboard, such as cereal boxes, and contaminated material — stained by food or grease — would still be accepted at the transfer station. See CARDBOARD, page 4
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On Apr. 19, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako presented the incoming regional district-wide commercial cardboard ban to nearly 40 business owners and residents at the Nechako Senior Friendship Centre. The new rule spurs from the Ministry of Environment’s changing rules on B.C.’s landfills to lower costs and pollution, said
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