Contact Details
- Address: 230-171 Esplanade West, North Vancouver, V7M 3J9, British Columbia, Canada
- GPS: 49.3119865,-123.0824675
- Phone: 778-588-9504, 1-855-875-3596
- Fax: 1-888-980-9549
- Email: info@recyclebc.ca
- Website: https://recyclebc.ca
Opening Times
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- Tuesday Call for details
- Wednesday Call for details
- Thursday Call for details
- Friday Call for details
- Saturday Call for details
- Sunday closed
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The Recycle BC is located in North Vancouver, British Columbia and is operated by the city’s public management and fulfills the function of assimilating and eliminating the solid waste of its inhabitants, different waste disposal techniques are carried out here. The North Vancouver Landfill accepts waste material from local individuals and legal entities.
In this place the recycling of organic and inorganic waste is carried out and it has a special structure and treatment, to make it as sustainable as possible.
The landfill is located at 230-171 Esplanade West, North Vancouver, V7M 3J9, British Columbia, Canada.
You can view the schedule of the center on the Opening hours tab above. The landfill is closed for holidays: Christmas (December 25) and New Year (January 1).
If you need to contact the landfill, you can email them at this address: info@recyclebc.ca or call at 778-588-9504, 1-855-875-3596.
Services provided
The North Vancouver recycling depot is built and managed so that it can operate for about next 70-100 years, providing the following services to the community and the environment:
- Residential Recycling
- Packaging And Printed Paper Recycling
- Recycling Collection
- Recycling Processing
- Promotion And Education
Materials accepted
The recycling center in North Vancouver accepts a wide variety of waste types, from household disposables to commercial waste. Waste management fees may vary, as well as the materials received and the amount, so we recommend contacting the North Vancouver recycling center directly if you have any questions.
These are the materials that are accepted:
Metal
- Aluminum Cans
- Aluminum Foil
Paper
- CARTONS AND PAPER CUPS
- Envelopes
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Office Paper
- Phone books
- Shredded Paper
Plastic
- Milk Containers
- PLASTIC CONTAINERS
- Plastic juice/food pouches
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Frequently asked questions in North Vancouver, V7M 3J9
In the United States, there are 633 material recycling centers. In these local recycling centers, the waste we generate is stored, and that has the capacity to be recycled so that other people or companies can take advantage of it. Waste that is not recycled takes many years to decompose, which pollutes and harms the health of humans and the earth.
In this sense, recycling centers are very important in the fight against environmental pollution, since they can clean, classify and pack a total of 100,000 tons of waste per day. However, the recycling centers cannot do all the work, the waste must have a correct treatment from the consumer, who must separate and clean the waste so that it can be classified correctly in the center and later sent to factories for transformation or processors.
The production of human waste increases year by year. This vast amount of trash has formed islands hundreds of thousands of miles long in the oceans. There is so much litter that ends up in the oceans and on land that it has entered the food chain, greatly damaging biodiversity.
One way to reduce the amount of human waste is recycling in recycling centers; by lengthening the useful life of materials and preventing them from ending up in landfills, but also avoiding the production of new materials and thereby avoiding the over-exploitation of raw materials and the pollution that comes with the extraction of materials and their production.
Not all the containers we consume are recyclable, even those that may seem so, that is why sometimes the local recycling center does not accept all the waste we carry. For example, while plastic bottles are the most widely recycled plastic products, not all bottles are made from the same plastic and their acceptance varies depending on the capabilities of each local recycling center.
In addition, the recycling services can reject your waste for recycling because it is dirty or contaminated since this means that it can no longer be recycled. Another reason facilities may reject materials is because of their shape, since some objects can damage the machinery, such as hooks. Other items that you cannot deposit in the recycling centers are:
- Syringes
- Bowling balls
- Aerosol cans that are not empty
- Plastic bags
- Batteries
- Diapers
- Electronics
- Ceramics
Most of the local recycling centers work on a standard schedule according to their location and have a page on the internet, where you can check, what days they do not operate, what hours they serve, their address, and everything you need to know about your local recycling center.
The fashion industry has become the second most polluting in the world, only behind the big oil companies. The environmental impact of the textile industry extends throughout its “commercial ecosystem”: from production, distribution, and exhibition to acquisition, care, and washing processes and, finally, its disposal. In the United States, more than 12 million tons of clothing are dumped in landfills annually.
Clothing and textiles are 100% recyclable, but only 15% are recycled in the United States. To recycle clothing, it is best to first consider whether it can have a second life and if so, give it away, donate it or take it to a second-hand store, always clean and dry to prevent the spread of bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
When it comes to clothes that are already in very poor condition or pieces of fabric that can no longer be reused, it is best to take them to a collection point that accepts this type of waste. At recycling centers for textiles, clothing is turned into fiber and used to make new products, such as padding, rubber-coated playgrounds, and some materials for the automotive industry.