Recycling will help reduce your carbon footprint, reduce harmful gases to the environment and reduce your disposal costs. The waste and recycling environment is constantly changing. New regulations and technologies provide ongoing opportunities and challenges.
Working together we can all help our communities achieve ZERO waste. ZERO Waste – emphasis on the concepts of reduction, reuse, and recycling to limit waste. It is often defined as a 90% or better waste diversion from landfill.
Compost and recycling are all part of the Repurpose Process (composting, reuse, reprocess) while achieving diversion from landfills. Next time you think about throwing something away, ask yourself… Where is “away”?
Single Stream Recycling
Super Save Disposal provides single stream recycling services for the following materials:
- Mixed Paper
- Glass
- Metal
- Plastics (#s1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Cardboard Recycling
Cardboard is a commodity and is recycled and reused to make more new products. Making new products releases greenhouse gases (GHG) during process. When making new products from recycled materials this process requires less energy thus reducing GHG emissions.
Cardboard is a banned material at the landfill and must be recycled (check with your local landfill for a list of restricted, prohibited and banned items listing).
Super Save can offer a range of containers and service frequencies to suit your cardboard recycling needs.
We have community cardboard and newspaper recycling depots at multiple sites in the BC Lower Mainland. Business and individuals who do not have access to cardboard recycling can bring their cardboard and newspaper to those sites at no charge.
Organics
Metro Vancouver has settled on a 70% waste reduction rate, all striving for ZERO waste. As of 2015 Organic material will be a banned item from GVRD landfills. Organic material can be diverted from the landfill and composted, creating a reusable material.
The current diversion rates vary across the country and world; Vancouver currently diverts 55%. Canada’s diversion rate currently stands at 22%. Even with a goal of 70% diversion, Metro Vancouver will still produce over one million tonnes of garbage that will require disposal.
We take our organic loads to designated composting facilities. We use compostable bags for our tote program. We also offer competitive pricing should you wish to purchase your own bags. While there are many items accepted as organic material, click here for a list of accepted organic material.
Advantages of Composting:
- Diversion of biodegradable waste from landfill
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle includes composting which is cost effective over continuing to dispose of all waste in a landfill
- Government regulated restrictions and mandates (ZERO waste initiatives)
- Reduction in methane that is a bi product of land filling
- Reduce your carbon footprint
- Helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Helps decrease your overall landfill costs
Recycling Totes
Why Recycle
There are many reasons to recycle here are just a few examples:
By recycling 1 ton of paper: you reduce water pollution by 35% and air pollution by 74%; you save 4,800 kWh of energy, the equivalent of the average power consumption of one household over a sevenmonth period; you save 16,330 gallons of water; you can make 11,324 simple rolls of bathroom tissue or 3,569 rolls of paper towels.
1 recycled glass bottle can save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
Recycling contributes to the economy and saves money. Recycling does this by creating jobs, conserving resources and reducing our dependence on imported product.
Plastic bottles contribute to almost 50% of recyclable material in landfills. Recycling is an ethical and social responsibility ensuring a sustainable world.
