Answer: Clean moulded food and beverage Styrofoam containers can be given to schools or community centres for craft projects or reused at home. Richmond Food Bank accepts styrofoam egg cartons for reuse. Mansonville Plastics, 19402 56th Avenue, Surrey, 604-534-8626 accepts clean moulded packing Styrofoam (appliance packaging) without tape, paper, metal, glue, dirt, waxy or greasy finish. The UPS Store at 94040 Blundell Road Unit 185 604-231-9643 and 8120 No.

No. Styrofoam (Polystyrene) is not in the City's program. However, organizations or businesses that generate large amounts of uncontaminated polystyrene should contact the BC Recycling Hotline 604-732-9253.

One look at the recycling bins at the Student Centre will tell you that most people don't know the answer to this question. No, neither of these items are recyclable on campus. This is a VERY serious problem for recycling at Mac, as every cup that's mistakenly thrown in a recycling bin brings that bin one step closer to being contaminated beyond salvage. If you love T-Ho's coffee but don't want to be wasteful, buy a travel mug. Remember, it is better to reduce than it is to recycle!

Just added!—Yes, nursery containers with are recyclable, and can be placed in your mixed recycling roll cart. Additionally nursery plant containers can be taken back to some retailers.

You can drop off Polystyrene materials, which includes foam cups, plates, meat and poultry trays, clamshell take-out containers, packing materials and foam egg cartons at no cost at the Hall\'s Glen Transfer Station or at the recycling depot located on Pido Road in Peterborough. For more information on recycling, visit the County of Peterborough website www.county.peterborough.on.ca Peanut packing materials, rigid foam insulation sheets or any non-foam materials will not be accepted.

Each year as a nation we produce 27 million tonnes of waste and nearly 80% of this material ends up dumped in the ground. Hampshire is running out of landfill site. We have three state of the art incinerators which are among the cleanest in Europe, but these cannot cope with the amount of waste that is collected in Hampshire. We will have to start exporting our waste to other authorities, which will incur additional costs.

Aluminum foil & trays; all types of batteries; furniture, clean clothes, books, household items, electronics (i.e., CD's, DVD's, tapes, videocassettes, TV's, computers, etc.)

Foam is not collected as part of curbside recycling. Currently there are no options to recycle foam in or near Beaverton.

The availability of markets determines if communities will collect certain recyclable materials. Presently the markets for styrofoam are poor and unavailable in our area. Please contact the suppliers and manufacturers and ask them to minimize their use and production of this number 6-coded plastic. Packaging peanuts can be reused! Contact your local area boxing and shipping companies to see if they will accept your clean and undamaged styrofoam peanuts.

This method costs from 10% to 25% more to build at this time but has an R-Value of about 20. And since styrofoam is said to last a million years by environmentalists it makes good sense to build houses with it. As this method gets more and more popular, the costs are likely to drop as well.

It's tough to ship statues without some kind of packing materials, but we try to minimize the impact on the environment in three ways. First, when we have to purchase supplies, we buy only biodegradable packing peanuts made from corn starch. Second, we reuse Styrofoam peanuts that we gather from other business, fulfilling the second part of the mantra, "reduce, reuse, recycle." And third, the Styrofoam used to package our statues is recycled and has an interesting story.

Permanent, specially marked bins are accessible 24 hours a day. For more information, call 256-830-2467.

Visit our Web site on Waste Prevention, Reuse, Recycling and Disposal and find out how to recycle all kinds of things