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The practice could divert more than 3,000 tonnes of waste from the landfill, but comes at a higher cost than demolition, a staff report says. “It’s really addressing a major area of waste generation here in the city of Victoria, which is construction waste,” Rory Tooke, manager of sustainability, assets and support services, told council this week. “It is identified as probably one of the most impactful initiatives we can take when it comes to waste production.” Up to 37 per cent of the city’s landfill material comes from the construction sector, and about half of that waste is generated through demolition, said Christine Woodhouse, the city’s sustainable waste management specialist.
Island Health has launched a campaign to prevent toxic illicit drug deaths and deconstruct the silence and shame around men using drugs. Photo by Jeriden Villegas / Unsplash
Island Health and the construction industry want to drive down the alarming number of men particularly those working in the trades and transport dying alone in their homes while using toxic street drugs.
The health authority launched a targeted eight-week awareness campaign Tuesday to prevent overdose deaths and deconstruct the silence and shame around men using drugs.
British Columbia is being ravaged by deaths from toxic illicit street drugs. There have been more than 7,000 fatal overdoses since a public health emergency was declared in April 2016. The pandemic has only compounded people s pain and isolation, and five people are now dying from toxic drugs on a daily basis.
Island Health targeting men through new overdose awareness campaign
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Island Health is taking steps to address the overdose crisis on Vancouver Island.
This month they are kicking off an awareness campaign geared towards men to help prevent overdose deaths and to encourage them to break the silence about their drug use.
Last year in the Island Health region, 263 people died from illicit drug toxicity. Of those people, 225 were men (85%) – and 126 of them were in a private residence when they overdosed.
Throughout the 8-week campaign, outreach will be done through social media, radio and streaming messages, and ads in transit shelters.
VICTORIA From new homes to commercial buildings, the capital region is in the midst of a major construction boom, and the problem of where to put the soil after the foundations are dug is a concern for rural communities on South Vancouver Island. With nowhere in Greater Victoria to put the dirt once it is excavated form the construction site, trucks are hauling it out of the region to communities like the Cowichan Valley, Shawnigan Lake, Metchosin and Sooke. “We certainly have a large amount of development in the region and as we know the excavation has to go somewhere,” said Vancouver Island Construction Association CEO Rory Kulmala. “Where do we put this material and how do communities that are equipped to handle it accommodate that?”