New Pacific Avenue depot collects waste of all kinds

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A new north Winnipeg facility will allow for the diversion of waste without wasting time.

The city held an open house for its Pacific Avenue 4R Winnipeg Depot on Oct. 28 at Cindy Klassen Recreation Complex. The facility, to be located on Pacific Avenue between McPhillips Street and Weston Street, is scheduled to open in late 2016.

The facility is set to be the second 4R Winnipeg Depot in the city, with the Brady Road 4R Winnipeg Depot scheduled to open before the end of the year.

Randy Park, the city’s supervisor of waste diversion, said the Pacific Avenue 4R Winnipeg Depot offers an easier outlet for people to reduce, reuse and recycle.

“It’s a one-stop shop,” Park said.  “People can recycle or dispose of all their household hazardous waste, so their paint, their used oils, their batteries and their electronics.

“It’s also a facility that is going to be a yard waste depot. People can get rid of their branches and tree trunks. They can even get rid of their leaves prior to the curbside collection.

“It’s also for any materials that may not be taken in the residential recycling program, such as large lawn furniture, large plastic items, steel, scrap metal, types of materials that aren’t allowed in the blue cart collection program. It will also accept all your household recycling, so if you’re entertaining and you just have way too much material for your cart during one collection week, you can always drop it off at this facility.”

Park said the Pacific Avenue 4R Winnipeg Depot is in the latter stages of the design phase, with construction expected to begin in the spring of 2016. He expects the project to cost approximately $4 million, although it has not yet been put out to tender.   

Sylvie Hébert, community composting co-ordinator at Green Action Centre, attended the Pacific Avenue 4R Winnipeg Depot open house. She said she is pleased with the “one-stop shop” solution to waste diversion.

“Right now we have to go to so many different places to recycle,” Hébert said. “If it’s batteries, maybe the library. Paint at Rona. There are just so many places, which is a disincentive to recycle, but this (4R
Winnipeg Depot) is an incentive. The only thing is if you don’t have a car, that’s a barrier, but at least it’s an improvement.”

Nikhat Merchant, a downtown resident who also attended the open house, thinks the 4R Winnipeg Depots could go a step further.

“If (waste) was picked up from your curb, that would be the ultimate solution,”
Merchant said.

To learn more about the Pacific Avenue 4R Winnipeg Depot, go to wwdengage.
winnipeg.ca/4rdepots/pacific