Parksville Community Centre Society June 6 and 27, 2026 Pop-up Recycling Depot Reports
June 6, 2026 Pop-up Recycling Depot Report: Brought to you by Parksville Community Centre Volunteers!
June 6th was another successful day at the PCCS Pop-up Recycling Depot with Barb Kenedy at the helm. The styrofoam tent was filled to its usual capacity of 18 sacks, The C-cans and tent were all full with the usual 74 sacks, and we added another 14 sacks outside, which means we took in about 106 Super Sacks of material that isn’t in the landfill today. These materials were delivered to us in 615 vehicles driven by our appreciative customers.
The morning was soggy, but then just after 10:00 AM the sun came out and we finish the day with sunshine! The volunteers enjoyed some Tim Hortons coffee, Pizza and Girl Guide cookies, but we ran out of bottled water (Sorry about that). The bad news on this day is that all the left behind granola bars got eaten by a not-so friendly group of rodents, which left our volunteers without those tasty morsels. The lesson learned, no food should be left there in the future. The rats got into the grey plastic totes and scattered what they didn’t eat all over the lunchroom tent.
As always, we’re hugely appreciative of the Girl Guides who attend all the PCCS Pop-up Recycling Depots with their good humour, energy and hard work. Our sincere appreciation goes out to their leaders who support their efforts while raising the funds needed for them to undertake some of the life-changing Girl Guide activities and events.
Thx, Albert
June 27, 2026 Pop-up Recycling Depot Report: Brought to you by Parksville Community Centre Volunteers!
On June 27, 2026 the PCCS Volunteers were lead by Don Tolson upon his return from his European vacation, and we welcomed 691 vehicles that brought a record breaking 148 Super Sacks of Recycling material.
We enjoyed a mostly sunny day with good people, fun stories, good food and just enough shade for those working under the tents. The Parking Lot volunteers though worked all day in the sunshine, so our hats go off to them for taking one for the team. (Did you see what I did there; hats, shade?) I also want to commemorate all the volunteers who worked exceptionally hard to take in those 148 Super Sacks of material, and the customers who sat in long line-ups before getting to our gates.
The styrofoam volunteers did a record 28 sacks, and the rest of the C-cans and tent that were filled with their usual 74 sacks of cardboard/paper, soft and crinkly plastic and glass were filled before 11:00 AM, which forced us outside to the board walk where we stacked up an additional 46 sacks of material by day’s end. I’ve never experienced this much material at the PCCS Pop-up Recycling Depots, although I’ve heard reports of a January 2025 event that took in 150 sacks while experiencing an Atmospheric River.
Now, let’s have a drum roll please for the winner of the vehicle count lottery that I instituted as a result of the 3-week break we had between the June 6th and 27th events. The participants were, Connie P (700), Pam M (638), Gerry V (575) and Albert R (558). The rules were that the winner would be the one who guessed the closest without going over the number on John Bishop’s counter, which he reported as being 691. I declare Pam M as our winner for staying under the total, and Connie P gets honourable mention for actually being closest but having gone over by 9 lousy vehicles. LOL. I’ll supply a box of Girl Guide cookies to Pam at the next Pop-up event.
Also, thank you Brenda for the very much appreciated sandwiches, and to the Girl Guides for their ongoing volunteer support and cookies.
The rest of 2026 will see us operating Recycle Depots as follows:
July 11 and July 25
August 8and August 22
*Three week break;
September 12 and September 26
October 10, Thanksgiving Weekend and October 24
November 7 and November 21
December 5 and December 19
Thx, Albert