Just under 500 households registered for this past weekend's Reuse Rendezvous (Photo courtesy Environment Lethbridge)

By Justin Goulet

Environment Lethbridge

Record numbers for Environment Lethbridge’s Reuse Rendezvous

Sep 11, 2019 | 6:15 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – This past weekend’s Reuse Rendezvous was a great success.

The Environment Lethbridge-lead event took place from Sept. 6 to 8 and had households place items to give away on their front yards.

The items were given away for free as a way to promote waste reduction.

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Environment Lethbridge’s Executive Director Kathleen Sheppard said even with a rainy start on Friday evening, the weekend went really well.

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She noted that just under 500 households registered for the event, Environment Lethbridge’s highest ever number of registrations.

She added that there are also “always households who participate even though they don’t officially register”. The group also clocked in about 2700 hits on their location map, set up on Environment Lethbridge’s website.

“We do a survey every year and we’re just still getting responses back on that, but we’ve had about 20 percent of the registered households respond,” Sheppard said.

“For that 20 percent, the estimate is that they gave away over 500 boxes of things, over 200 mid-size things like small appliances, TVs – that kind of size, and then 127 large items, so furniture, bicycles, barbecues, those kind of things.”

Sheppard said those numbers will increase as more households respond to the survey.

The plan is to continue holding two Reuse Rendezvous per year. The next event, a one-day affair, is planned for late April or early May with the next three-day long campaign slated for September 2020 after the Labour Day long weekend.