MAYNE ISLAND RECYCLING SOCIETY
  • Home
  • Recycling Info
    • Hours
    • What Can and Cannot Be Recycled
    • Pre-Sorting
    • FAQs
    • What Happens to the Items We Recycle
    • News Bulletins
  • Programs & Events
    • Ongoing Events >
      • Backhauls
      • Beach Cleanup
      • MIRS at Community Events
      • Recycle your Bicycle
    • Past Events >
      • Bring.Your.Own. Container. Campaign
      • Pollution Solutions
      • Green Cone Initiative
  • Get Involved
    • AGM Documents
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
    • Employment
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Our Team
    • Our Funding
    • History
  • Links
  • Contact

Thanks for joining the annual beach cleanup!

4/27/2023

 
Picture

A big thank you to all beach captains, cleanup teams, recycling depot volunteers, and supporting businesses who took part in the annual beach cleanup! Our beaches are now a lot cleaner. Even mother nature helped out, giving us a break from the rain just in time for the cleanup start on Sunday. 154 volunteers removed over 10 cubic meters (10,000 litres) of material from the beaches, and sorted it at the Mayne Island Recycling depot. 


New this year: 
- T
hanks to a team of adult and children volunteers organized by the Tsartlip First Nation Stewardship Department, the Helen Point reserve lands were included in the 2023 beach cleanup!

- Thanks to a partnership with Ocean Legacy Inc., we are diverting 70% of the material collected from the landfill to their recycling facility near Steveston Harbour in Richmond BC, which specializes in recycling marine debris. 
The Ocean Legacy team will work to separate and and process the hard plastics from buoys, barrels, buckets, etc. as well as rope and netting, and use their recycling partner Waste Connections for the EPS (styrofoam), as well as Liberty Tire Recyclers via Tire Stewardship BC to recycle the rubber from tires.

Picture
Photo by the Mayne Island Conservancy

Comments are closed.
Hours
​

​Public Access:
Wednesday 10am-2pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
​

Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional:
Wednesday 2pm-3pm


The depot is open on all holidays that fall during our normal hours, EXCEPT:
​Sep 30, Dec 25-26, Jan 1
Depot Location
 

390 Campbell Bay Rd
Mayne Island, BC
​
​250-539-3383
​
mayneislandrecycling1@gmail.com


​
Find us on Facebook
Mayne Island Recycling
​
© Mayne Island Recycling Society 2021
  • Home
  • Recycling Info
    • Hours
    • What Can and Cannot Be Recycled
    • Pre-Sorting
    • FAQs
    • What Happens to the Items We Recycle
    • News Bulletins
  • Programs & Events
    • Ongoing Events >
      • Backhauls
      • Beach Cleanup
      • MIRS at Community Events
      • Recycle your Bicycle
    • Past Events >
      • Bring.Your.Own. Container. Campaign
      • Pollution Solutions
      • Green Cone Initiative
  • Get Involved
    • AGM Documents
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
    • Employment
  • About
    • Mission Statement
    • Our Team
    • Our Funding
    • History
  • Links
  • Contact