File #: 25-0781    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Action Report Status: Carried
File created: 6/18/2025 In control: Environmental Services Committee
On agenda: 7/16/2025 Final action: 9/10/2025
Title: Motion with Notice: Blue Box Recycling Programs in Schools (Director Caradonna)
Attachments: 1. Background: GVTA Letter CRD re Blue Box
Title
Motion with Notice: Blue Box Recycling Programs in Schools (Director Caradonna)

Recommendation
[At the July 16, 2025, Environmental Services Committee meeting, the following notice of motion was amended to remove the words "blue box" and carried as follows:]
The Environmental Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:
1. That staff report back on how the Solid Waste Management Plan could be leveraged to extend the recycling program to schools across the region (not including the City of Victoria) as well as other institutional customers.
(NWA)

[At the July 16, 2025, Environmental Services Committee meeting, the following motion arising on writing to the school districts was carried:]
The Environmental Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:
2. The CRD staff write to school districts within the Capital Regional District to inform/remind them of their obligations to participate in recycling and food scraps programs as established via municipal and regional district bylaw and the solid waste management program. And to thank them for the programs that already exist in their schools.
(NWA)