Thank you for helping divert food scraps from your garbage and conserve water by ordering your Composter, Solar Cone Food Digester, and Rainbarrel through our office. We are now SOLD OUT of these items for 2014. We will be offering them for sale again in the Spring of 2015. Happy Gardening!
Click to view a pdf copy of the RMRS April, 2014 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
PLUS! Spring Chipping set-out deadlines, Celebrate Earth Day Poetry & Photo Contests, & more.
Click to view a pdf copy of the RMRS March, 2014 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
In this month’s newsletter, we look at the link between Compassion and the Environment.
PLUS! Entries are now being accepted for the Celebrate Earth Day Poetry and Photo Contests (details in newsletter) and check out what the LAST Committee has been up to, including hosting a Transition Resource Fair at Thomas Haney Secondary on April 8.
Click to view a pdf copy of the RMRS February, 2014 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
Are you a member of the Ridge Meadows Recycling Society? (if not, sign up here – it’s free!)
If you signed up last year (2013) and/or haven’t renewed your membership yet, you have until March 4, 2014 to renew it to be eligible to vote at our April 1 Annual General Meeting.
Members of Ridge Meadows Recycling are welcome to attend:
Ridge Meadows Recycling Society’s 2014 Annual General Meeting
6:30pm on Tuesday, April 1, 2014
at The Well, located inside Chances Gaming Centre,
22710 Lougheed Hwy, Maple Ridge, BC
A short business meeting will be followed by a special presentation by Sarah Stephen, Communications Manager for Multi Materials BC (MMBC), the group in charge of implementing a province-wide recycling stewardship plan for printed paper and packaging.
Goals of the program include increasing the recycling rate of these items and encouraging companies to create or choose packaging that is easier to recycle.
After the presentation, enjoy light refreshments as you mingle with other members of the society and Ridge Meadows Recycling board members.
Attending the AGM:
Members, please RSVP by mail (Ridge Meadows Recycling Society, Box 283, Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 7G2), by email to leanne@rmrecycling.org or by phone to Heather at 604-463-5545 by March 28 to confirm attendance at the AGM.
Membership Renewal:
Membership is FREE! Our goal is to encourage as many people as possible to become members since all residents of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows contribute to the success of recycling. Voting members must be residents of Maple Ridge or Pitt Meadows. Please renew your membership here, by mail (see address above), by email to leanne@rmrecycling.org or by phoning Heather at 604-463-5545. Membership must be received no later than noon on March 4, 2014 for voting eligibility at the April 1, 2014 Annual General Meeting.
In this month’s newsletter, we look at how Recycling will change this year as Multi Materials BC takes responsibility for all printed paper & packaging recycling in the province.
PLUS! Save the Dates – 1. the Annual General Meeting for Ridge Meadows Recycling Society is on Tuesday, April 1 at The Well inside Chances Gaming Centre, 2. Celebrate Earth Day – “Food for Thought” is on Saturday, April 26 at Memorial Peace Park.
Click to view a pdf copy of the RMRS January, 2014 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
In this month’s newsletter, we look back at a full year of events & more in 2013.
PLUS! With big changes next year in the funding model for printed paper & packaging, how much do you know about EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)? Board Member Sandy Sigmund breaks it down for us.
Click to view a pdf copy of the RMRS December, 2013 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
In this month’s newsletter, Remembrance Day reminds us of other battles being fought, and the upcoming holidays have us thinking green.
PLUS! Wanna save the world? There’s an app for that – actually, there’s a bunch of them!
Click here to view a pdf copy of our RMRS November, 2013 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
For Waste Reduction Week 2013, Ridge Meadows Recycling enlisted the help of a Grade 6/7 class at Eric Langton Elementary. The class completed a Lunchtime Waste Audit with RMRS Environmental Educator Dan Mikolay, counting how many items in their garbage can were a) recyclable b) compostable (or still edible!) and c) actually belonged in the garbage. Their results were very close to the District 42 average of 33% recyclable, 55% compostable, and 12% garbage. They then looked at ways to reduce their waste, including packing Litterless Lunches.
Using suggestions from the students, we compiled Litterless Lunchkits and gave them to Maple Ridge Mayor & Council as part of our “Litterless Lunch Challenge” during our Waste Reduction Week presentation on October 22, 2013.
The class challenged Mayor & Council to not produce anything from their lunch that isn’t recyclable or compostable for two weeks. Good luck!
Thank you everyone who helped out with the presentation: RMRS Board Member Carly O’Rourke, Dan Mikolay, Carly Johnson & her students, and Karen Learmonth from Amber Light Photography!
Also check out the photos from Eric Langton Elementary’s Litterless Lunch Challenge to Maple Ridge Mayor & Council for Waste Reduction Week 2013!
Click here to view a pdf copy of our RMRS October, 2013 Newsletter. This and past newsletters are archived on our website.
