Recycling
RECYC-FRIGO ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM LAUNCH
RECYC-FRIGO offers free home pickup of your fridge or freezer as long as it’s 10 year old or older, in working condition, connected, and between 10 and 25 cubic feet in size. If your appliances match this description, just make an appointment by dialing 1-877-49FRIGO (1-877-493-7446) or by filling out the collection form online at www.recyc-frigo.com. A collection truck will come to your home to pick up your appliance free of charge.
RECYC-FRIGO, a concrete action that pays!
Participants will receive a cheque for $60 for each appliance collected (up to a maximum of two per household) within three weeks of the date your refrigerator or freezer is picked up. And as well as saving electricity, the RECYC-FRIGO program addresses another major environmental problem by recycling 95% of the materials in the appliances we collect.
View the press release… (PDF - 84kb) 
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Québec government plans to close all rural intrench disposal sites, including our municipal site in Bristol, by 2009. This forces us to prepare for sending our non-recyclable matters to a large facility. Council has not yet determined how the residual matters will be pick up or where it will be sent. However, there will are certainly be added costs, including trucking costs and tipping fees, both of which are charged on the basis of the amount of residual matters to be disposed of. It is inevitable that the costs of matters disposal will increase to several times the current costs of operating our municipal intrench disposal site. This increase will force the municipality to increase taxes. The more residual matters we have to truck to a large facility, the higher the tax increase will have to be.
Council is asking all residents of Bristol to please try and produce as little residual matters as possible in order to keep the increase municipal taxes as low as possible.
Some tips to minimize the amount of residual matters:
Reduce
- bring re-usable bags to store to carry away your purchases;
- when shopping, choose items with as little packaging as possible or with recyclable packaging;
- put all organic matter (except meat and bones) in the compost - start a compost heap in the far corner of your garden if you don’t have a composter.
Reuse
- instead of buying disposal plastic bags or containers, reuse containers in which you buy food (such as margarine tubs, jars, tin boxes);
- or buy containers that can be washed and used over and over again.
Recycle
- as much matter as possible - Use the list of acceptable materials;
- Remember to place used motor oil and paint in specially marked bins at our municipal intrench disposal site.
View the list of what materials can and cannot be recycled. There are some newly accepted items on the list and some instructions on how certain items need to be treated, so please look at the list carefully. Please post it on your fridge or keep it where you and your family can refer to it so that everyone can recycle as many items as possible.
so please recycle to reduce matters and taxes.
It’s good for the environment too.
Why Recycle
Saves Natural Resources - By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.- Saves Energy - It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore.
- Saves Clean Air and Water - In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.
- Saves Landfill Space - When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.
- Saves Money and Creates Jobs - The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.
What We Do and Do Not Recycle
View the Guide to Recyclable Materials (PDF - 80kb)
During the summer months there are recycling bins located at the Parking Lot in Norway Bay and also at the tracks in Bristol Village. These are available from the long weekend in May until Thanksgiving weekend in October. However, recyclables can be put in the bins at the in-trench disposal site all year round.
Hazardous Waste Disposal
Now you can bring your old paint containers, fluid containers, used motor oil and oil filters to the intrench disposal site for pickup.
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| Accepted Products | Non-accepted Products |
Aerosol spray paint Paints sold:
List non exhaustive, categories of paints targeted:
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Artistic paint Primer and paint:
Solvent and thinner Adhesives Tar and sealing with a tar base Stucco Products without labels or with unreadable labels |
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