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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Arundel Municipal Library
URGENT : Arundel’s charming little municipal library is looking for volunteers for occasional help with customer service, book filing and other related tasks as needed.
Residual matters – Reminder: what goes (and doesn’t go) in your green, brown and black bins
What goes in your green, brown and black bins?
Here are some of the materials accepted in your green, brown and black bins (click on image to enlarge):
What doesn’t go in your green, brown and black bins?
Here are some other materials refused in the green bin (recycling):
The following materials are refused in the brown bin (organic matter):
- All plastic, biodegradable or compostable bags
- Metal, glass and wax paper
- Textiles (even with organic fibers)
- Vacuum cleaner dust
- Diapers and sanitary products
- Household hazardous waste (oil, paint, batteries)
- Large branches
- Invasive plants
Reminder and explanations from the Complexe environnemental de la Rouge (CER)* regarding certain materials in the brown bin
These materials should never be placed in the brown bin, for the following reasons:
- No invasive plants (Japanese knotweed, Giant hogweed, etc.): seeds may resist the composting process;
- No house dust or dryer lint: non-compostable synthetic fibers are found in dust or lint;
- No glass: glass shatters into very small pieces that damage composting site equipment, downgrade the compost quality of CER and increase the risks involved in using it;
- No compostable or biodegradable (plastic-type) bags: the government permit to operate the composting site does not allow the use of such bags (note that a paper bag is perfectly appropriate);
- No plastic of any kind (bags, film, trays, Styrofoam, etc.): these materials have to be unnecessarily sifted, sent to the landfill and degrade the quality of the CER compost.
(*The Complexe environnemental de la Rouge (CER), located in Rivière-Rouge, is where the contents of all our bins (black, green and brown) are delivered. To follow the CER (Website: https://www.cer.quebec/ and Facebook Page: https://www.cer.quebec/ The contents of the green (recycling) bin are then transferred to the Tricentris recycling center in Lachute. To follow Tricentris (website: https://www.tricentris.com/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tricentris)
Non-compliant materials and bins
Here’s a list of materials that have been refused by the Complexe environnemental de la Rouge (CER)* collection trucks in 2022 and 2023. When these materials end up in the wrong bin, your bin will be deemed non-compliant and the collector may refuse to pick it up.
BROWN BIN (organic)(materials refused in the brown bin) |
GREEN BIN (recycling)(materials refused in the green bin) |
BLACK BIN(materials refused in the black bin) |
| Glass | Wood | Wood |
| Plastic bags | Diapers | Food residues |
| Compostable plastic containers | Long objects | Styrofoam |
| Compostable plastic bags | Black garbage bags | Aerosols |
| Diapers | Compostable plastic containers | Paint |
| etc. | Styrofoam | Building materials |
| Batteries | Recyclable materials | |
| Toys | etc. | |
| Clothing | ||
| Aerosols | ||
| Decorations (Xmas lighs, …) | ||
| etc. |
Let’s sort our bins at source, otherwise it contaminates the compost and recycling, and substantially increases the cost of landfill materials and our waste management in general.
In case of doubt, when a material doesn’t seem to go in any of these 3 bins, think of the ecocenter.
Or put them in the Voluntary Deposit bins for Styrofoam and special containers located at the municipal garage, at 60, Morisson Road, Arundel :
Let’s be vigilant! Good waste management starts at home, with the way we sort the materials in our bins before collection!
RESULTS – Principal Residence Establishments (PRE) – Signing of register on June 16th, 2023
RESULTS OF THE JUNE 16, 2023 REGISTER
Arundel, June 21, 2023 – Regarding the referendum approval process for by-laws numbers 290.1 to 290.49 prohibiting the PRE uses throughout the territory of the Municipality of Arundel (except in the Pa-10 zone), adopted on May 16, 2023, here are the results of the register held on June 16.
As certified by the Director General/Treasurer at the regular council meeting of June 20, 2023, the number of signatures required to hold a referendum vote was reached in the following 10 zones:
Af-38, Af-39, Af-39-1, Af-40, Ag-30, Ag-31, Ag-35, Pa-32, Vi-33 and Vi-34
By-laws for other zones are deemed approved.
As for the by-laws covering these 10 zones, a referendum vote may be held in the coming months TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT PRE SHOULD BE AUTHORIZED (OR PROHIBITED) IN THE SECTORS RELATED TO THESE ZONES. Council may also decide to abandon these by-laws and thus not hold a referendum. Council will make its decision in July 2023.
Principal Residence Establishments (PRE)
Arundel, June 6, 2023 – At the municipal council meeting held on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, the Municipality of the Township of Arundel continued the by-law process aimed at PROHIBITING the use of Principal Residence Establishments (PRE), in 49 zones of its territory. The next step concerns the register of qualified voters. This will take place on Friday, June 16, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Town Hall, located at 2, rue du Village in Arundel.
If I wish to have the Principal Residence Establishment (PRE) use authorized in my principal residence, I will sign the register.
Persons eligible to vote must sign the register, in person, if they wish this type of short-term rental to be offered in their principal residence, in those in their sector or in a contiguous sector, if the case may be.
If I do not wish to have the Principal Residence Establishment (PRE) use authorized in my principal residence: I will not sign the register.
Persons eligible to vote who do not wish this type of short-term rental to be offered in their principal residence, or in those in their sector or in a contiguous sector, if the case may be, must not sign the register.
Thereafter, if the Municipality of the Township of Arundel does not wish to hold a referendum vote, it may choose to withdraw the by-laws that concern the zone where the required number of signatures has been received. In such a case, residents of these zones will be able to offer this type of short-term rental in their principal residence.
You can consult the public notices https://arundel.ca/en/publications/avis-publics/ and the by-laws https://arundel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ANNEXES-290.1-et-ss_Seance-16-mai_VF.pdf for each zone on the Municipalité du Canton d’Arundel website.
Am I concerned?
You can consult this map of zones and the one attached to each public notice. It let’s residents know if their address is affected.
You can also consult the MRC des Laurentides geomatics at the following address : http://cartographie.mrclaurentides.qc.ca/sigimweb/#Arundel
For more information on this process, please consult this bilingual Powerpoint
Can I make a campfire or burn waste today?
- All fires are prohibited on the territory of the Municipality during the dry period following the spring snowmelt (March 1st to May 31st) (article 12, Burning By-law (no 244)
For any fire or burning, you must comply with the requirements of the Municipality of Arundel’s Burning By-law (no 244).
Some of these requirements are as follows (excerpts):
SECTION 12 – FIRE HAZARD RATING (free translation)
The person responsible for the fire must verify at all times, before proceeding with the burning, that the fire danger is low (white) or moderate (green) or high (yellow), and this, with the Société de protection des forêts contre le feu (SOPFEU).
If the fire danger indicated by SOPFEU is extreme (red), all fires are prohibited on the territory of the Municipality.
Furthermore, the permit may be suspended or revoked at any time by the representative of the Municipality or by the representative of the Fire Department duly authorized to do so in one of the following cases:
- Where a ban on open air fires has been issued by the Quebec Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources;
- When an open air fire ban has been issued by the SOPFEU (Société de protection des forêts contre le feu);
- When one of the conditions stated in this by-law is not respected;
- During the dry period following the spring snowmelt (March 1st to May 31st);
- When the Municipality or the Fire Department decrees by public notice a ban on burning on its territory.
ARTICLE 11- WINDS
It is forbidden to make a fire outside on days when the wind speed and gusts exceeds twenty (20) km/hour.
The SOPFEU fire danger rating is a minimal guideline to follow! The appropriate behaviour to adopt for each level of fire danger is laid out below.
- LOW (blue): This is a good time to burn waste and make campfires.
- MODERATE (green): Make only small fires.
- HIGH (yellow): Do not light fires or burn waste if wind speed exceeds 20 km/h. (If wind or gusts over 20km/h: Prohibited at all times (article 11, by-law (no 244).
- VERY HIGH (orange): Fires should only be made in fire places equipped with standard spark arrestors, whose openings are no wider than 1 centimetre.
- EXTREME (red): All fires are prohibited on the territory of the Municipality (Article 12, paragraph 2, by-law (no 244).
https://sopfeu.qc.ca/en/prevenir/can-i-make-a-campfire-or-burn-waste-today/
