Compost improves soil porosity and helps to control soil erosion. It also enhances plant and flower growth and helps plants develop a sound root structure. Use it on your lawn, in your garden, around trees or combine it with potting soil for your plants. Like many of the leading municipalities in Alberta, Camrose has once again signed on to a new recycling initiative that diverts heavy metals, found in computers and fluorescent tubes, from being dumped into our landfill. Through a partnership between the City, Centra Cam, Alberta Environment and our computer recycler, Retrosystems, of Calgary, old computers, monitors, printers, keyboards, mouses and other components that are no longer usable, can now be recycled at the Recycle with Centra Cam Collection Depot.
Computer recycling is the first part of the program being offered to the general public.
The second part, fluorescent tube recycling, being done with Environmental Lamp Disposal, of Edmonton, will be done on a pilot project basis only. The City has agreed to recycle all old fluorescent tubes taken from municipal buildings. Augustana University College, The Bethany Group and Affordable Computers were also recognized for their agreement to participate in this important recycling program. It is our hope, that in the future, we'll be able to accept fluorescent tubes from the general public for recycling. Lyle Hoffman, Marketing Manager for Centra Cam, told the attendees about the program and its goals and then the unloading of old computers began.