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LiveSmart BC Community Hero: Clearwater Home Hardware
If you want to find a busy place in Clearwater, look no further than the Home Hardware store on Clearwater Station Road. The store takes in shipments of goods from numerous suppliers every week, and all the shipments come in layers of packaging. Now the store is making changes to divert some of that incoming packaging to the TNRD’s new recycling facilities just outside Clearwater.
The store is working with its waste disposal service provider, Jagers Garbage Inc., to create two streams of waste - one for the recycling bin and one for the garbage bin. This means that much of the packaging material, especially corrugated cardboard, will no longer end up in Clearwater’s landfill.
Store owner Linda Selbee says new procedures will start when the two-bin system is in place.
“We’ll have some of our junior staff break down and stack the cardboard for recycling,” she told the Times. It’s another job for staff to do, but the recycled material can be disposed of free of charge, and the idea of recycling is appealing.
The store keeps a separate recycling bin for bottles. The bottles are either turned over to the soft drink delivery truck or to a bottle recycler.
Home Hardware is an agent for Sears, and as such stocks catalogues to customers. Selbee says Sears has been retrieving unused catalogues for recycling for at least six years; catalogues go back on regular Sears delivery runs.
From time to time, says Selbee, the store has been offering re-usable shopping bags for customers, to help customers get into the recycling habit. A trip through the Home Hardware aisles shows many products aimed at conservation of energy, and care of the environment. From energy-saving light bulbs and solar lights to eco-friendly cleaning products, weather-stripping and insulating products, the items on the shelves are a good indication that manufacturers want to meet the needs of environmentally-conscious consumers.
The Selbee family’s Home Hardware is a good place for such consumers to get ideas and information, as well as to shop.
