Sort it Right Flip Guide 2016

CITY OF P RT COQUITLAM

ZONE MAP & COLLECTION SCHEDULE EVERYTHING ELSE – GARBAGE CART & ALTERNATIVES BLUE CART & RECYCLING DEPOTS GREEN CART – FOOD SCRAPS & YARD WASTE BEARS & WILDLIFE – LOCK IT RIGHT! CART & COLLECTION INFO SORT IT RIGHT!

WASTE SORTING & SERVICES

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2016 GUIDE

3 Reasons to

Sort it Right !

What we throw away is being closely monitored, and cities that don’t sort waste properly will pay large fines and higher fees.

These costs are passed on to taxpayers.

2. Ensure your carts are picked up

Service may be suspended for households that continue to sort their waste incorrectly after repeated warnings and education.

3. Keep Earth healthy for our kids

The average singlefamily home could be diverting 76% of its household waste away from the landfill

Green cart 46%

Garbage cart 24% Green cart 57%

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Confused ? about where it goes?

We can help you

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Info, downloads and online waste-sorting resources: www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss 604.927.5496 Free PoCo Waste-Line app: collection schedule, resources and more. Download it free at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline Printed resources at City Hall and other City facilities, or drop by the Operations Centre to speak to staff

Where household waste would go with proper sorting

Blue cart 19% Blue cart 15%

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Landfills take up valuable space and harm the environment by releasing greenhouse gases (methane) into the air and toxins into the ground.

Where household waste goes now

Garbage cart 39%

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SEARCH TOOL

Finding out where it goes is easier than ever!

Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • Use the online version of the Sort it Right search tool • Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app and search on the go

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1. Avoid paying more

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Setting Out Your Carts When to set out carts

Waste Collection in Port Coquitlam

• All single-family homes automatically receive City waste services, paid for on their property tax bills.

• Multi-family complexes and businesses are responsible for arranging their own waste services, either through a private contractor or by opting in to some or all of the City’s waste services, available at competitive rates.

To learn more about signing up multifamily and business properties for City waste services, contact 604.927.5267 or wasteloss@portcoquitlam.ca.

A greener choice

Information is also posted at portcoquitlam.ca/multifamily.

Waste Carts Three types of carts are provided for the separation of waste, identified by their lid colours. Sizes provided depend on the property type and needs.

• GREEN CART: Food waste, food-soiled papers and yard trimmings.

Provided in 120, 240 and 360L sizes.

Move unlocked carts to the street between 5:30-7:30 am on your collection day.

Carts should be put away by 7 pm.

Set-out/set-back service If you have physical difficulties moving your carts to the curb and back, you may apply for set-out/set-back service to have City crews do this for you. Download an application form at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste (on the Waste Cart & Collection Info page) or call 604.927.5496.

3 m (10 ft) from overhanging trees

How to set out carts • Place carts along the edge of the roadway, with wheels against the curb (if there is one).

• Place carts so they open towards the street.

• Ensure cart lids are closed. (Overflowing carts may not be picked up.)

• Ensure adequate space around carts: - At least 1 m (3 ft) between carts - 1.5m (5 ft) away from parked vehicles - 3 m (10 ft) above carts from overhanging trees

1 m (3 ft) between carts

1.5 m (5 ft) from vehicles

• BLUE CART: Recyclable paper, metal and plastic. Provided in 240L size.

• GARBAGE CART: Whatever can’t go in the green or blue cart or be returned to a depot or return-it centre. Provided in 120, 240 and 360L sizes.

Larger or extra carts are available for a fee. Contact 604.927.5420 for information or download a Service Level Change form at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste (on the Waste Cart & Collection Info page).

Cold Weather Collection

When temperatures dip below zero, your green cart may be picked up later to allow the contents to thaw. Hazardous road conditions can also cause delays.

Missed Pickup?

If your waste was not collected as scheduled, report it to 604.927.5496.

CART & COLLECTION INFO

The City of Port Coquitlam provides fully automated waste collection services to more than 18,000 single-family homes, along with multi-family and business properties.

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DON’T BE A BEAR TARGET!

The City has distributed wildlife-resistant cart locks to households that receive City waste services in bear-prone areas and don’t have an approved lock.

Proper positioning of cart lock

The locks are effective against wildlife if used properly. Check the steps below to make sure you are using your locks correctly.

CAUTION

For a step-by-step video and other info, visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/lock

Follow these tips to protect your home, neighbourhood and bears • LOCK IT UP – secure garbage and food scraps in either a wildlife-resistant enclosure

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(e.g. garage or shed) or with a City or other approved lock on your cart.

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• SET IT OUT – put out your carts at the curb between 5:30 and 7:30 am on collection day.

Other ways to keep bears and wildlife away

Hook the curved ends of each strap under the lip of the cart on both sides of the cart, as close to the handles as possible.

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Lay both pieces of the lock flat on top of the lid.

Other common attractants: • • • • • •

beverage containers BBQs and grease barrels compost piles pet food and bird feed diapers petroleum/chemical products

4 Ensure attractants are inaccessible to wildlife

Pick ripe fruit and remove fallen fruit

Lock outdoor fridges and freezers

Clean BBQ after use

The final step is to slide the pin into the clasp to secure the lock.

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To remove the lock, take out the pin, push in the safety latch, and lift the lever.

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Place the looped end of the clasp over the hooked end of the other strap, then push down the lever to close the lock.

Please note: the lock must fit snugly enough that it doesn’t slide. If it is too loose, unclasp the lock and turn the loop to the right to tighten, or to the left to loosen.

More tips and info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/bears SEE A BEAR? Bear sightings are closely tracked. If you see a bear, please call the Provincial Conservation Officer Service 24-hour toll-free hotline at 1.877.952.RAPP (7277) or go to www.rapp.bc.ca

Don’t forget to remove locks before setting the cart out at the curb!

BEARS & WILDLIFE – LOCK IT RIGHT!

After bears eat once from a garbage cart, backyard fruit tree or even a dog dish, they’ll return to these sources again and again, and teach their cubs to do the same. These “garbage bears” lose their natural fear of humans and can become aggressive, which endangers our neighbourhoods and eventually leads to their destruction.

Lock it How to use your Right! waste cart locks

GREEN CART: FOOD SCRAPS | FOOD-SOILED PAPER | PLANT & YARD WASTE

Accepted in Green Carts

Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/greencart for the complete list

Food is banned from the landfill. Using your green cart is as easy as:

food scraps and food-soiled paper in a pail, newspaper, paper bag or other container.

food scraps and food-soiled paper into your green cart, along with plant/yard waste.

3 SET OUT green carts at the curb between 5:30-7:30 am on collection day.

All leftovers

Reducing your food waste

Meats, bones and shellfish

Rice, pasta and baked goods

Dairy, eggs and eggshells

Household grease, e.g. bacon fat, cooking oil

Paper bags or liners made of 100% natural fibres

Wooden toothpicks, chopsticks, skewers

Plant trimmings, flowers and leaves

Grass clippings and branches up to 3” diameter and 40” long

NO plastic bags or liners, even biodegradable or compostable

NO pet waste or kitty litter

NO treated or stained wood

NO rocks or soil

Why shouldn’t I just use my garburator?

Metro Vancouver households generate about 190,000 tonnes of food waste each year, about half of which could have been consumed. Food waste adds about $700 to each home’s annual grocery bill.

Visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.ca for info and tips on food storage, recipes and ways to reduce your food waste – and your grocery bill.

Food scraps that are screened out of the water end up in the landfill. Garburators also overload our pipes and require us to use more chemicals and energy to treat our water.

Avoid the YUCK! How to keep your pail and cart clean without using plastic

Fruits, vegetables, seeds and pits

FOOD S SCRAP BAG

Wrap scraps in newspaper or used paper towel

More tips and info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/greencart

Food-soiled uncoated Food-soiled uncoated papers, coffee filters paper plates, cups and tea bags and pizza boxes

PAPER LUNCH BAG

Not Accepted

PAPER LUNCH BAG

Use paper bags or liners made of 100% natural fibres

FOOD S SCRAP BAG

Line your kitchen pail with newspaper

GREEN CART – FOOD SCRAPS & YARD WASTE

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BLUE CART: PAPER | PLASTIC | METAL Accepted in Blue Carts

RINSED AND DRY

Not Accepted in Blue Carts

Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/recycling for the complete list

NO plastic bags or soft plastic

Paper, envelopes, magazines, catalogues

Cardboard and boxboard boxes

Moulded boxboard

Gable-top and Tetra Pak cartons

Frozen dessert boxes

Paper bags – single and multiple layer

NO glass

NO plastic containers for paint, motor oil, lubricant or antifreeze

BOTTLE DEPOTS

• Biggar Bottle Depot, 2577 Kingsway Ave • Coquitlam Return-It Depot, 2554 Barnet Hwy, Coquitlam • Lougheed Return-It Depot, 1045A Lougheed Hwy, Coquitlam

Shredded paper

Paper and plastic drink cups and lids

Hard plastic containers (any code)

Plastic clamshells and trays

NO soft or hard cover books

NO hard plastic toys

RECYCLING DEPOTS: GLASS, REFUNDABLE CONTAINERS, FOAM MULTI-MATERIAL BC (MMBC) DEPOTS

Paper gift wrap and cards

NO items with hazardous materials symbols

Everything that goes in blue carts PLUS:

Pails – less than 25L

• Biggar Bottle Depot, 2577 Kingsway Ave • MMBC depots (see left) • Other locations that take refundable containers

CITY GLASS DEPOTS • • • • •

Parking lot at Wilson Ave and Donald St Safeway, 2850 Shaughnessy St Hyde Creek Rec Centre, 1379 Laurier Ave PoCo Rec Complex, 2150 Wilson Ave Home Depot, 1069 Nicola Ave

SALAD

Garden pots and trays

Coffee pods (remove lids and put in garbage)

Metal cans and lids (with labels)

Foil wrap, containers and plates

Spiral-wound cans for Empty aerosol cans chips, juice etc. (no paints, chemicals)

Plastic bags and soft plastic

Foam containers, plates and food trays

Non-refundable glass jars and bottles

Refundable beverage containers

Non-refundable glass jars and bottles

More recycling info: www.portcoquitlam.ca/recycling

Take-back programs

BLUE CART & RECYCLING DEPOTS

SALADD

GARBAGE CART: WHATEVER ISN’T ACCEPTED IN OTHER CARTS OR AT DEPOTS

Garbage bags, including compostable and biodegradable

Ziplock bags

Visit www.portcoquitlam.ca/garbage for the complete list

Cling wrap, bubble wrap, shrink wrap and cellophane

Broken ceramic housewares

Chip/snack bags, cereal/cracker bags

Pet waste/kitty litter (small quantities, double bagged)

Where Else to Properly Dispose of Items

Light bulbs and lighting equipment

Construction materials

Salvation Army (Elgin St) lightrecycle.ca

Coquitlam Construction Recycling Facility

Tires

Unwanted usable items

Household hazardous materials Biggar Bottle Depot regeneration.ca

Electronics

Small appliances and power tools

Scrap metal

Salvation Army (Elgin St) www.electrorecycle.ca

Woori Metal Inc. Google “scrap metal port coquitlam”

Vehicle batteries

Pet waste/kitty litter

Medication/needles

Biggar Bottle Depot, Happy Stans, Canadian Tire, Wastech

portcoquitlam.ca/dogs

PharmaChoice, Wilson Pharmacy, Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart healthsteward.ca

Biggar Bottle Depot returnit.ca/electronics

COOKIES

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Disposable diapers

Foil-lined bags/boxes

Mesh produce bags

Ribbons and bows

Foil gift wrap

Not Accepted

Plastic straws / cutlery

Canadian Tire, Costco, Gameday Automotive and Tires, Gordies Automotive tsbc.ca

Food and yard waste

Recyclables

Returnable items

Construction materials

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Rechargable/nonrechargable batteries

Participate in City-wide Garage Sale or donate Happy Stans, London to local charities: Drugs, Best Buy, RONA, portcoquitlam.ca/ Pharmasave, Home Depot garagesale call2recycle.ca

Still don’t know where it goes? Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to use the online search tool or download the free PoCo Waste-Line app to search on the go.

EVERYTHING ELSE – GARBAGE CART & ALTERNATIVES

Put in Garbage Cart

TAKE-BACK PROGRAMS AND ALTERNATIVES

JANUARY 2016

Collection Zones Download calendar

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Don’t be a bear target

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Never miss another pick pickup!

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APRIL 2016

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Get personalized collection re reminders sent to your device from the free PoC PoCo Waste-Line app.

Download at www.portcoquitla www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline

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ZONE MAP & COLLECTION SCHEDULE

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Zones are always picked up in the following order:

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Get a PDF version of the collection schedule and zone map at www.portcoquitlam.ca/waste

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Sort it Right! RESOURCES Info, downloads and online waste-sorting resources: www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss

Free PoCo Waste-Line app: collection schedule, resources and more. Download it free at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline

604.927.5496

Printed resources at City Hall and other City facilities, or drop by the Operations Centre to speak to staff

Never miss another pickup with the PoCo Waste-Line app

Sort it Right!

SEARCH TOOL

Find out where it goes Go to www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • Use the online version of the Sort it Right search tool • Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app and search on the go

Information about City waste services: 604.927.5496 | operations@portcoquitlam.ca Operations Centre, 1737 Broadway Street (open 7:30 am - 4 pm Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays)

Download the free PoCo Waste-Line app today at www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteline to: • • • • •

Get personalized collection reminders Find out where it goes with the Sort it Right! search tool Report a problem with any City service Receive emergency notifications from the City and more!

www.portcoquitlam.ca/wasteloss