Trash Bash

The 2024 Backroad Trash Bash is back and we’re focusing our efforts from Halfmoon Bay to Roberts Creek.

The event will be held on September 21, 2024 and based out of Hackett Park in Sechelt.

The plan is:

• Start at 10am – Get a voucher and be assigned a site by checking in at Hacket Park.
• Pre-registration will save us a lot of time - see the registration tab at https://letstalk.scrd.ca/trash-bash
• Clean up your site and sort what you collect.
• Bring the materials to the Sechelt Landfill for disposal and hand in your voucher.
• Return to Hackett Park to check out and enjoy a lunch prepared by Lions Club Sechelt volunteers. Done by 2pm (if all goes right).

Registration:

• If you’re joining as a family or a group of friends please use the group option and fill in the information for everyone in your group. If you don’t have everyone’s info on hand at the moment, we can update it on the day of, or by a separate email once you have the info.
• It’s a backroad clean up – you’ll need an off-road capable vehicle with room to haul garbage.
• Please indicate your experience in the registration form to help us gauge the best clean up site for you.

Also, if you know of any locations that could use a clean up please feel free to send them through to infrastructure@scrd.ca and we can add them to the list for the trash bash.

Questions:

Email us at infrastructure@scrd.ca

2023 Backroad Trash Bash – Thank You!

The SCRD would like to thank all of the volunteers who joined together for the 10^th Annual Backroad Trash Bash on Saturday, September 16. Thanks to all your help 23 sites and the roadsides of Pender Harbour were cleaned up.

Through your efforts 4,830 kilograms of waste, 8 appliances and 86 tires were removed from the backroads from Middle Point to Egmont. Volunteers were very surprised to find lots of cigarette butts considering how dry the conditions were since the last roadside clean up and staff would like to remind residents that appliances are free to drop at the Pender Harbour Transfer Station.

Volunteers included community residents, members of Sunshine Coast Off-Road Club, and representatives from AJM Disposal, BC Natural Resources Office, BC Conservation Service, Salish Soils and the SCRD.

Special thanks to Pender Harbour Hikers and Pender Harbour Lions Park for helping to set up the event, Don White for donating time and heavy machinery to get harder to reach items, and to sponsors RONA Madeira Park Store, IGA Madeira Park and Kleindale Supply LTD for your donations of supplies for the volunteers.