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Trash Talk Newsletter (Spring/Summer 2011)
1. STONY PLAIN'S UTILITY NEWS
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Zero-Waste Events
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Planning an event, function or meeting?
SPRING/SUMMER 2011
The Town’s Zero Waste Event Package provides
information, suggestions and planning tools to
limit, if not eradicate, waste produced at events.
Download the information package from the
Town’s website (www.stonyplain.com).
containers mixed paper/
Blue Bag (please rinse all containers) boxboard
Program • milk containers will be accepted
at bottle depot locations for refund
•
•
office paper
cereal boxes
Dispose of plastics • tin food cans • corrugated cardboard
with the resin code • clear glass food jars • pasta boxes
of 1-7 in the blue bag. • refundable beverage containers
• hard plastics, household grocery bags
Simply check if the
bottles and containers • may be accepted for
plastic has the recycling at your local
following symbols: heavy paper
grocery store
(place in separate grocery bag)
• newspaper
• magazines
• telephone books
• catalogues
What goes into
my OrganiCart? To help you collect
organic waste in
your kitchen,
food waste paper waste purchase a “Kitchen
• Vegetable and fruit waste • Wet or soiled cardboard Catcher” from the
• Animal, fowl or fish or paper Recycle Town Office. This
(eg. meats, bones • Newspaper (for wrapping, smart - use two-gallon pail,
or fat trimmings) lining bin, shredded Organicart. complete with lid
• Cooking oils or grease paper, etc.) and handle, can be
• Dairy or egg waste stored unobtrusively
yard waste on your counter or
• Grains, nuts, flour, etc.
• Grass clippings under your sink.
• Soup stocks When it is full,
• Leaves
• Coffee grounds dispose the material
• Weeds
in your organic cart.
• Garden foliage
• Brush or prunings
Paint Products accepted at Electronics
the Rotary Recycling Centre: accepted
• Containers 100ml to 24 litres • Non-catalyzed and non- at the Rotary
• Interior/exterior latex paint, nitrocellulose lacquers Recycling Centre:
varnishes and urethanes • Concrete and driveway
• Porch, floor, fence and (non-tar) paint • Televisions
deck paints • Empty containers • Monitors
• Primers, undercoats and • Paint Aerosols • CPUs and servers
water-repellent sealers • Marine paint - • Laptops/
Notebooks
• Enamels free of
• Printers
• Wood-finishing oils and stains pesticides
and printer
• Shellac combinations
• Rust and decorative metals paint
2. STONY PLAIN'S UTILITY NEWS SPRING/SUMMER 2011
be water wise Sustainable
Event
Take care not to waste Arbour Day
Because you June 18, 2011 - 10:00 pm
this valuable resource,
and save money while
care - REPAIR Willow Park Natural Area
• Regularly check toilets, pipes and faucets This Spring, the Town will host its first-
you’re at it, too! ever Arbour Day, which will be celebrated
for leaks and repair them immediately
• Leaks can cost anywhere from a few annually, starting in 2011. The Town
Make every drop dollars for a dripping tap to as much encourages citizens and community
as $1,000 per month for a faulty toilet groups to plant and take care of trees
count - REDUCE • The average family loses approximately within our community.
• Hot water for showers, laundry and 14 per cent of water usage through leaks, www.stonyplain.com
washing dishes is about 20 per cent most commonly in toilets
of a typical energy utility bill
• Check toilet for leaks by putting a few
• Run dishwasher and washing machine drops of food colouring into the tank and Rain Barrel
only when full; use energy-saver cycle wait 20 minutes before flushing. If colour
begins to appear in the bowl, the flapper
Program
Don’t be a valve may need replacing. Other issues to To encourage water conservation, the
consider include: adjusting the chain Town makes available 200 rain barrels
drip - RETROFIT length and float arm and checking the to citizens to purchase on a first-come,
• An average family of four flushes ball-cock for leaking first-served basis. These units typically
400 litres of water a day sell out quickly.
• Replace older toilets with new, Think green, Barrels can be purchased for
efficient ultra-low flush models that
use only three- to-six litres of water real green - $50 + Gst from the Town Office
during regular business hours
per flush – reducing water use by LAWN CARE (8:30 am - 4:30 pm, M-F).
50 to 85 per cent per flush
• Choose a sprinkler that lays down water To pick up your
• Adapt or replace older,
in a flat pattern. Oscillating sprinklers lose barrel(s), you
less efficient appliances
as much as 50 per cent of the water they MUST bring a
disperse through evaporation
copy of your
• Water lawn in the early morning purchase
or in the evening to prevent evaporation. receipt(s) to the
• Water lawn once a week for no more Public Works
than one hour Office between
• Cut grass relatively high 8:00 am and
(6 cm or 2.5 inches) 4:30 pm, M-F.
Toilet Rebate Program
S.O.S. To encourage water conservation, Recycling Trailer
the Town has partnered with Climate The Town has purchased a
(Save Our Sewers) Change Central (C3) to offer citizens recycling trailer that will be
a toilet rebate program.Residents who used at various events and
To keep Stony Plain’s sanitary purchase and install a qualifying toilet will functions throughout the year.
sewer system operating smoothly, be eligible for a $50 rebate on low-flush Community organizations are
some items should not be models and a $75 rebate for dual-flush encouraged to use the trailer
models. The program is being for their events. Contact the
introduced into any sewer, administered by C3. For more information, Town to reserve the trailer for
directly, or via kitchen waste visit www.climatechangecentral.com your group function.
disposal units. These include: or www.stonyplain.com.
• glass • metal • coffee grounds
Recycling Statistics
• seafood shells • decorative • condoms
• paper towels stones (from • sanitary 2010 2009 2008 2007
aquariums or napkins Blue Bag 1,019.01 1,006.46 1101.71 1032.56
• diapers, socks,
fish bowls) Organic 1,343.76 1,271.53 1177.33 1312.23
rags, cloths • dental floss
• plastic objects Garbage 2,951.37 2,933.61 3004.30 2807.00
• kitty litter
(toys, utensils) Electronics (tonnes) 64,330 40.747 39.944
Paint (litres) 24,000 29,400 12,600 (Aug. 18-Dec.10)
Rotary The Rotary Recycling Centre
accepts the following items:
Recycling
paint
Centre Hours
24/7 access cardboard
4505 - 50 Avenue, Stony Plain, AB organics 4905 - 51 Avenue,
Attendant on site seven days Stony Plain, Alberta
a week, from 8:00 am - 4:30 pm. Canada, T7Z 1Y1
blue bag
Please respect the Recycling T 780.963.2151
Centre, and clean up any mess(es) F 780.963.2197
you make.
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