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THE LATEST NEWS ON GOING DUMPSTER-FREE
Yaletown Initiative Earns 100% Support from City Council for Dumpster-Free Program
On November 29, 2007, City Council voted unanimously to remove dumpsters from City streets. For seven years, Yaletown BIA Board members and staff have worked hard to achieve this result by engaging members, waste haulers, industry associations and City departments. We carefully researched alternatives and have continually gathered evidence of how the status quo was not working. City Council was very clear in its decision, noting that credit was due in large part to the leadership of the Yaletown BIA for doing all of the groundwork and building partnerships and consensus.
Our partners now include; the BIA’s of Downtown, South Granville, Gastown, West End Davie Village and Robson Street. The Vancouver Board of Trade, Building Owners and Managers Association, BC Restaurant & Foodservices Association, Tourism Vancouver, various recycling organizations, Green Table and the GVRD are also at our table.
This is a huge achievement for Yaletown and, together with our partners, we will continue to lead the way as the new method of how everyone views and handles garbage is implemented.
SOME BACKGROUND ON GOING-DUMPSTER FREE
Step One Sort your garbage into specially designed bags
Step Two Set your bags out according to daily pick up schedule
Step Three Enjoy clean, clear streets with more parking
No dumpsters = clean streets + more parking
80 new parking spots
Estimated $35 million in added yearly retail revenue
Cleaner and safer streets
Reduced litter and illegal dumping
Take a look at our one-page handout for more details [...download
it here].
To keep up to date on all the details about going DUMPSTER FREE in Yaletown,
download the one of the regular SACS [Streets and Alleys Cleanup Strategies]
Project Updates.
January 2008 [download the PDF]
November 2007 [download the PDF]
October 2007 [download the PDF]
September 2007 [download the PDF]
Metro News recently published an article on the issue of going DUMPSTER FREE in
Yaletown [...download
the article here].
Yaletown Magazine has also published an article on the issue of going DUMPSTER FREE in their November 2007 issue
[...download
the article here].
For some interesting background information on the process of going dumpster-free, download this transcript of a Seattle Weekly story from September 26, 2007 [...WORD format].
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