No funding promises following public campaign to save Nanaimo Recycling Exchange
NANAIMO — The Nanaimo Recycling Exchange is creeping closer to accepting its last load, as the longstanding non-profit agency struggles to secure capital funding for a new facility.
The Kenworth Rd. recycling service faces expiry of their lease at the end of March, while the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) Board gets set to vote on a potential long-term solution.
“If we don’t get some kind of, I suppose promise, that a facility can be built, we close,” Nanaimo Recycling Exchange (NRE) executive director Jan Hastings told NanaimoNewsNOW.
The NRE owns a larger vacant lot beside their current location — the problem is a lack of money to build a new facility on it.