At it's barest, it's a large bottle depot. They have room for about 30 people to sort and more bins and tables than any other recycling facility in the lower mainland. There's no recycling for electronics, bring those to FreeGeek, and paper here, but I don't think the users of this faculty are too inclined to bring those in.
The line up, that can last for an hour, is right in the middle of hastings and entirely of the city's binners. These unemployed or underemployed citizens manually pick out the recyclables everyone else threw out, returning them for nickles and dimes; a meager wage or welfare subsidy. Drug dealers and thieves peddle their wares outside for the cash earned from an honest days work, dealing and smoking crack behind a solid wall of humans, bags, carts, and bottles,
It's nice to know that our city is kept substantially cleaner, and we save so much land fill space because of places and opportunities like this. But I truly resent that this is the closest bottle depot in my neighborhood. read more