In the wake of hearing that the curbside recycling programs in Newfoundland have been pushed back for another 2 years, I have prepared this list of How To Recycle in St. John’s.
Recycling Programs in St. John’s
You can take your recyclables to a centre.
Green depots:
Green depots are set up throughout the province to collect used beverage containers only. I missed this point the first time and showed up with cans and jars and all kinds of other goodies I have been used to recycling in Ontario – but no, they wouldn’t take them. It is only for drinking containers. and they only accept goods for which they can receive cash for.
They will give you a refund of 5¢ per non-alcoholic beverage container and 10¢ per alcoholic item:
- Aluminum cans – soft drinks, beer, juice, flavoured drinks
- Drink boxes – juice, milkshakes
- Plastic and glass bottles – soft drinks, water, juice, flavoured drinks, liquor bottles, imported beer
- Steel cans – juice
Here is a link with the list of Green Depot locations.
On the list are Ever Green Recycling Depots, a nonprofit agency that operates four depots in St. John’s.
While evergreen accepts newsprint at the Blackmarsh Road and Elizabeth Avenue locations, they stopped collecting white paper and cardboards earlier in the year, as this was a money losing venture. They had asked the government for some money to help out but were denied since the city wide plan was to start in the coming year. Now that the recycling program has beem delayed for another 2 years, the city recommends we drive our paper to Mount Pearl or CBS. What a joke.
Here is the list of what you can recycle at Ever Green.
- Sort 1 – Aluminum Cans
- Sort 2 – Glass
- Sort 3 – Clear Plastic
- Sort 4 – Coloured Glass
- Sort 5 – Green Plastic
- Sort 6 – Plastic Other
- Sort 8 – Steel Cans
- Sort 9 – Gable Tops
- Sort 11 – Drink Boxes
- Sort 12 – Transplastics
- Sort 13 – Blue Plastic
- Sort 20 – Clear Glass
- Sort 21 – Green Glass
- Sort 22 – Brown Glass
- Sort 23 – Plastic Clear
- Sort 24 – Plastic Colour
- Sort 26 – Beer Bottles
Once again, these are drinking containers only. What are transplastics? This recycling business is not easy.
Household Hazardous Waste
You have to be careful about how you dump your old paints, and other chemicals. Down the toilet isn’t great for the harbour, and consequently, us.
- For the 2008 HHW Collection Program Schedule, click here.
- For Accepted Household Hazardous Waste, click here.
How to recycle old tires.
Pay for pick up
Atlantic Blue Recycling Limited (709) 726-2583
Atlantic Blue Recycling Limited is a private business operating in the St. John’s Region that does provide a curbside collection service. The company will come to your house and collect all recyclables, cans, bottles, paper, plastic, and charge $19.53 a month.
I still have to find out more about them since they don’t have a web site (what!) I think this might have to be the way for me to go, since I don’t have a car. Anyone in the downtown area want to share this with me?
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