FREE Tour: Hartland Landfill

What you put in the garbage matters and residents have a role to play in reducing the amount of waste that ends up at Hartland Landfill. Join us for a presentation at the Hartland Learning Centre followed by a tour of the region's landfill. On the tour you will learn how the CRD safely and responsibly manages the region's garbage. Tour highlights:

The Active Face: see where all your garbage goes and what we do with it at the active face.

Landfill Gas: learn about landfill gas and how we're reducing greenhouse gas emissions and turning "garbage into energy."

Environmental Protection: see how the CRD manage rainfall runoff to ensure we protect our environment.

Site Rehabilitation: visit the closed section of the landfill where native trees and shrubs have been planted to help return the area into a natural eco-system.

We’ll meet at the Compost Education Centre, and travel together on a school bus to Hartland landfill and arrive back at the Compost Education Centre together in the same bus.

Please meet sharp at 9:00am so that the bus can leave ASAP. You’ll arrive back at the CEC by 12:00pm.

This tour is offered for free with the support of the Capital Regional District!

Please pre-register for this event. You can register by acquiring a ticket through Eventbrite.

You can also register for the event by calling our office at 250 386 9676 or via email by contacting [email protected].

VERY IMPORTANT: Please be in touch if you are no longer able to attend but hold a ticket so we can make your space available to someone else.

We will be taking a regular school style bus to Hartland landfill. Once there, most of the program occurs indoors, in the learning centre or on the bus. To access the learning centre there is a short walk outdoors up a flight of stairs, though an alternative drop off to avoid the stairs can easily be arranged. Washrooms with sinks and running water are available in the parking lot and inside the learning centre. Please let organizers know if you forsee needing alternative transportation, or accessible drop off location to the learning centre.

The Compost Education Centre is located on unceded and occupied Indigenous territories, the land of the Lekwungen people— specifically the Xwsepsum and Songhees Nations. These nations are two of many, made up of individuals who have lived within the porous boundaries of what is considered Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Kwakwa'wakw Territory (Vancouver Island) since time immemorial. At the CEC we seek to respect, honour and continually grow our own understandings of Indigenous rights and history, and to fulfill our responsibilities as settlers, who live and work directly with the land and its complex, vital ecologies and our diverse, evolving communities.

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