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Let's Talk Trash - Powell River
Let’s Talk Trash specializes in developing and implementing innovative programs and initiatives to guide the qathet Regional District towards Zero Waste.
For the past eight years Tai has worked as a Waste Management Consultant to the qathet Regional District (qRD). This Coast Salish name meaning ‘working together’ was gifted to the Powell River Regional District by the Elders of Tla’amin Nation in 2018. With her partners as part of her business, Let’s Talk Trash, are implementing qRD’s Solid Waste Management Plan. This includes developing and launching region wide recycling and compost collection programs, researching and writing illegal dumping and invasive species prevention strategies, advising the qRD Board on global and regional impacts to waste management, promoting and facilitating shoreline clean up and Zero Waste events, administering a wood stove rebate program, conducting waste audits, providing public consultation, education and public outreach through events, publications, radio and social media. Let’s Talk Trash assisted the qRD to develop a successful 6-million-dollar federal grant to transform an old incinerator site into a state-of-the-art Resource Recovery Centre (RRC) and Transfer Station.
The work they do has been recognized internationally. Let’s Talk Trash has presented at conferences hosted by the Compost Council of Canada, Coast Waste Management Association, and Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities. They have been nominated several years in a row as ‘Business of the Year’ through the Chamber of Commerce and won ‘Activist Group of the Year’ in Powell River Living magazine by community nomination.
