Sept 26 Shredathon @ Mission VanCity
The last roving Shredathon is scheduled for VanCity Mission Community Branch on Saturday September 26, Mission / Maple Ridge and Coquitlam corridor residents bring your items for shredding and support a great cause. $10 donation per box is appreciated and and will be given to the VanCity’s charity of choice for the day.
UPDATE $800 raised by VanCity and Urban Shredding! Excellent participating and event, way to go VanCity Mission!
September 19 VanCity & Urban Impact Shredathon in Chilliwack
VanCity and Urban Shredding (division of Urban Impact) are proud to be providing a Shredathon for local residents of the Fraser Valley region. The Shredathon is at the VanCity Chilliwack from 10 AM to 2 PM on Saturday September 19, 2009. Residents and small businesses can bring their confidential materials have them shredded right before their eyes. In addition the new Hybrid Recycling truck is there as well to receive an extra boxes that people might have when dropping off their shredding. The Hybrid truck runs on its own battery that is charged while the motor is running. So when it is on site the engine won’t be running.
All participants are asked to donate $10 per box (if they want to) to the VanCity charity of choice. Last year we raised $800 or so at the last Shredathon in Chilliwack, we are hoping to beat it today!
Tour of the Metro Vancouver WTE facility in Burnaby
On Thursday I participated in a tour of the Waste to Energy facility in Burnaby. I was very impressed with the tour and the process. The facility was built in the early 1980’s and has been expanded and improved apon several times since then. Life expectancy for the WTE facility is approximately 40 years.
Here are several facts I learnt, that I think are of general interest:
Week of Oct 19 (Recycling Week) will be School Tour week for Urban Impact Plants
Urban Impact is happy to announce that we will be conducting school tours the week of October 19, 2009 which is also Recycling Week in Canada (funny how we planned that?!).
Nicole Stefenelli, found and President of Urban Impact will be conducting two tours each day that week. The ideal age for school tours seems to be Grade 5’s. We completed 12 tours in the Spring of 2009 and found that this age group was the most engaged, asked the best questions and had an excellent understanding of what Urban Impact does. Younger classes certainly gain knowledge from the tours, but it seems that their level of underestanding is not as complete.
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