By Veronica Beltran

what are you doing with your candy wrappers?

Be green about your Halloween candy

Nov 5, 2019 | 1:44 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–It’s the week after Halloween and the potential to run into unwrapped candy wrappers is high, and how you choose to dispose of those wrappers may or may not impact our landfills.

This is the second year in a row that London Drugs has held its Halloween candy wrapper collection drive–an attempt at diverting flexible plastics from our landfills. Flexible plastics include chocolate bar and candy wrappers, chip bags, zipper lock pouches along with many others.

“We’ve kind of done this over the last year, and it’s in partnership with recycling BC…this is an opportunity for us to give back to the community by taking stuff out of the landfill,” said Christian Schenk, Store Manager at London Drugs in Prince George.

London Drugs isn’t the only place in town that accepts flexible plastics all year round, the PG recycling Return It centre and Hart Return it centre also take them.

“You want to have that (recyclables) at the top of mind when you are going to dispose of this, in a way, that you aren’t just automatically throwing it in the garbage because…we are always worried about our landfill space,” said Rachael Ryder, Waste Diversion Program Leader for the Regional District of Fraser Fort George.

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According to an article by London Drugs once the materials are collected, they are separated and used to produce engineered fuel–a replacement for coal in industrial settings. Last year London Drugs helped divert 12,000,000 pounds of material from landfills.