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TVs and streams don’t mix By Jennifer Moreau
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A flat screen TV, a table, two sets of skis, assorted plastic objects, a bucket of concrete and a snowboard. Those were just some of the items volunteers removed from the upper reaches of a salmon bearing stream last weekend, and that’s an improvement over past years. “The more public education we do the less we have to rectify.There’s less cleanup to do, because people are getting the message,” said Ulryke Weissgerber, a supervisor of tenant programs and services with the Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation. The annual Eagle Creek cleanup event has been going strong for four years. In all,Weissgerber estimated 50 people came out. The Eagle Creek Streamkeepers, the Greystone Village Tenants Association and the Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation orga-
DUMPED Nick Kvenich, left, president of the Eagle Creek Streamkeepers Society, along with local Scouts and other volunteers, shows some of the trash collected at the fourth annual cleanup. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER nized the event, where volunteers pulled garbage from the creek and marked storm drains, so people know they
lead to salmon habitat. The Eagle Creek Streamkeepers, the 13th Southwest Scouts club, Rotaract,
and the Croatian Fish and Game Club all sent representatives to help with the event, and volunteers from
the tenants’ association pitched in. Businesses from the nearby mall helped with food and donations.
There was children’s entertainment, with balloon art, and a ukulele club played for the volunteers.
Fire destroys depot – reopens here Mattress recycling operation is a ‘vital piece’ of Metro Vancouver’s ZeroWaste Initiative By Tereza Verenca
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A mattress-recycling company has reopened in Burnaby after a fire ripped through its south Vancouver depot last week, leaving 45 employees out of work. Fabio Scaldaferri, owner of Mattress Recycling, had closed up shop at 5 p.m. on May 27, only to receive a call 90 minutes
later that a blaze had erupted. “I couldn’t even fathom what was happening there,” he told the NOW. “Just seeing it engulfed in flames was really hard for so many reasons. It had taken us so long to get to that point, where we had a great location and a standalone building in Vancouver.” The Strathcona resident also recently invested $35,000 into the depot, upgrading to
a more energy-efficient lighting system. Roughly 24 hours after the fire, Carlton Ee, the vice president of Burnaby-based company Rolls Right Trucking, contacted Scaldaferri, to let him know of a couple of warehouses to which he could relocate his business. “I was just so happy to hear from him,” the 31-year-old entrepreneur said. In the end, Scaldaferri decided to lease 11,000 square feet of space at the former Safeway distribution centre in the Edmonds neighbourhood, which is managed by Rolls Right Trucking. Doors opened Monday,
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June 1, just four days after the fire broke out. Getting the business up and running again was very important for Scaldaferri, who added the depot is a “vital piece” of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Initiative. His company has processed and recycled over 350,000 mattresses since 2008. “That translates into big volume, big jobs and major resource recovery because we recycle 90 per cent of each mattress and only the remaining 10 per cent goes to the landfill,” he noted. Continued on page 4