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10 THE NEW TANNER THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2005 he Regional Municipality of Halton Y GreenCart Demonstration Program What: The GreenCart is like a Blue Box for your kitchen scraps. Kitchen scraps (including meat and bones), paper towels, coffee grounds and more will now be collected at the curb in the GreenCart, instead of in a regular garbage bag. Who: Five neighbourhoods across Halton Region are participating in the GreenCart demonstration program. What's Happening Cart Delivery Starts* Oakville Open House (Iroquois Ridge Rec. Centre, 1051 Glenashton Dr.) Milton Open House (Halton Region Museum, Kelso Conservation Area) Halton Hi en House (Salvation Army, 271 Mountainview Rd. S.)_. Burlington Ward 6 Open House (Tansley Woods Centre, 1996 ttabashi Way) Burlington Ward 1 Open House (Royal Botanical Gdns., 680 Plains Rd. W.) GreenCart Collection Begins** September 6, 2005 September 12, 2005, 5:0 September 14, 2005 20, 200 - 8:30 pm. - 8:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. ate 2005, 5 October 3, 2005 * This includes delivery of a curbside GreenCart, a smaller Kitchen Catcher for inside the house and an information package to get you started. ** GreenCart collection will occur every week on the same day as your regular garbage collection. All residents within the demonstration areas can expect to receive their GreenCart, Kitchen Catcher and information package between September 6 and September 15, 2005. If you do not receive a cart during this time, please contact us. The demonstration program will be evaluated during the first year of collection and processing, and will help us to develop the GreenCart program for the entire Region. Why: Around 45% of the average garbage bag in Halton is made up of food scraps and other organic material that could be turned into compost. We need to get this material out of the garbage to help extend the lifespan of our landfill, so it can keep working for Halton residents for years to come. Questions? Comments? Give us a call. Demonstration Program Areas GRD 9) STREET (AE DUNDAS STREET (BEG ADS) 'DUNDAS \ Milton HEADON FOREST OR e CENTRAL PARK OR pupaeLvivle BORD, MILBUROUGH LINE WALKERS LINE RIVER OAKS BOULEVARD EAST 'SIXTH LINE MCNIVEN ROAD, TWISS ROAD TREMAINE ROAD (REG AD 22 JORDAN AVENUE: ARGYLL ROAD. GLENASHTON DR AR ROAD (REG RD 3) SPRING: PLAINS ROAD WEST GARDEN RD TENTH LINE LA SALLE PARK RD rai Var oe 816 U.S.VISITOR: Members of an American Legion branch from Plymouth, Massachusetts, visited the Georgetown branch of the Royal Canadian Legion Saturday, and participated in a parade to the cenotaph in Remembrance Park. Here, Legion padre Rev. Peter Barrow, left, anda Plymouth member pay their respects to the dead of the three wars. -Maggie Petrushevsky photo Former MP pleased with new Barrie ethanol plant BY MAGGIE PETRUSHEVSKY The New Tanner Ethanol production to sup- plement Ontario's gasoline supply is about to become a reality. And. without any federal subsidies to get it started. Former Halton MP Julian Reed says last week's an- nouncement that investors will convert the old Molson brewery at Barrie into an ethanol plant makes him "incredibly pleased." A longtime proponent of alternative ways to supply energy, Reed has become a special advisor on renew- able fuels for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food since his retirement from federal politics a year ago. "This is a signal that the use of ethanol in our gaso- line is well out of the starting gate," Reed said in a tele- phone interview Thursday. The plant will be handled * by a Burlington malting firm and designed to produce 300 million litres of ethanol per year, making it the largest such plant in Ontario. Reed credits a combina- tion of the rise in crude oil prices and announcement of the provincial government's Renewable Fuel Standards for giving investors the con- fidence to move forward. He was in provincial poli- tics in the late 1970s when the Ontario Ministry of En- ergy offered to help farmers finance their own on-farm stills to produce ethanol. However, that turned into an energy negative situation where it took more energy to operate the stills than their operators got back for their own use, he said. ; Since that time both the product and the production methods have changed so that on-farm stills are now 34 per cent energy posi- tive. Reed predicts that in 10 years ethanol will be shar- ing production with other energy technologies in the province. The new technologies accept a wider range of feed stock going into the digest- ers. Now they can work with any fibrous substance includ- ing wood and corn stocks as opposed to the original process which relied only on starch, Reed said. Caceres aries tentaemenentea (SA9)836-80A Ahwith|P ae Ie aa pai a