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THE NEW TANNERTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2009 9 Tanner Feb 12 09 6c x 135ag The Regional Municipality of Halton www.halton.ca 12020 9 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville, Ontario L6M 3L1 Dial 311 or 905-825-6000 Toll Free 1-866-442-5866 TTY 905-827-9833 www.halton.ca Its up to you whether you line your GreenCart or not. If you choose to line your GreenCart, here are the acceptable liners: Newspaper/flyers Paper towels Cardboard Paper bags Paper food waste bags Certified compostable bags with the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) logo: Bags that display the BPI logo are designed to compost quickly and safely when composted in a commercial composting facility. For a list of GreenCart acceptable liners and where they can be purchased, visit www.halton.ca/waste. GreenCart materials in the following bags will not be collected: Plastic shopping bags Plastic garbage bags Green plastic recycling bags Oxo-biodegradable bags By excluding these plastic bags, we supply the composting facility with a clean material, resulting in a higher quality final compost product. GreenCart Acceptable Liners ? Reduce & Reuse Bring Your Own Bag On average, Ontarians use seven million plastic bags each daythats about four bags per person every week. Imagine the impact if everyone uses reusable bags and avoids plastic bags altogether! Reduce your wasteuse reusable shopping bags or bins when visiting the grocery store or mall. Take It Back! Halton Take plastic bags back to the store Take plastic shopping bags back to local retailers to be recycled. Take It Back! Halton partners easily recycle plastic shopping bags into more bags or into plastic lumber because the bags dont have to be sorted and are not contaminated from other materials. Take It Back! Halton partners do not accept oxo-biodegradable bags. Visit www.halton.ca/takeitback for a list of stores that take back plastic shopping bags. Blue Box No plastic bags Plastic bags are not accepted in the Blue Box. Plastic bags get caught in the sorting facilitys machinery and conveyor belts slowing down the recycling process, or they stick to glass and dirt leading to contamination. Only put acceptable recycling materials at the curb in a Blue Box. Visit www.halton.ca/waste for a list of locations where you can get additional Blue Boxes. 3Rs of Plastic Bags Town Digest Quarry quandary Is it better for the Town to be at the table or absent when Brampton Bricks plans for its new Norval quarry in neighbouring Peel Region are dis- cussed? Thats the question Halton Hills Council wants answered before deciding if it will continue to take part in a joint planning process for the pro- posed quarry on the east side of Winston Churchill Road on the boarder with Halton Hills, northeast of the hamlet of Norval. Mayor Rick Bonnette, who said that the appli- cation raises a lot of concerns at the local council table, questioned if being part of a JART a joint area review team on the application would be a good or bad thing for Halton Hills. If we are part of the JART process, does that put us in a very awkward position if down the road we decided we didnt like what we heard and we decided to fight this or appeal the decision they are making. Could that not come back and bite us, Bonnette asked at a recent Council meeting. Town planning director Bruce MacLean said there is the possibility that being at the table could cause future difficulties for Halton Hills, noting that the JART process focuses on things like traffic, vibration noise or the ecology. If were at the table, at the end it might prejudice us if at the end we want to give opposition to this application because theres no doubt I have serious concerns that this will have impacts on the Town of Halton Hills Bonnette said, adding that it might be strategically better to have the Towns interests represented by Halton Region, if it would not also be at risk by being involved. Regional and Town Councillor Jane Fogal said she wants a legal opinion from staff to determine if it is better to be in the tent or out before any decision is made. Councillors also said the issue is important enough that all Norval residents should receive information hand delivered if necessary so they are aware of the application for the shale quarry that could result in 60 truck trips a day to Bramp- ton Bricks plant. The Town will not participate in the JART pro- cess until it has consulted with Halton Region to determine the best way to look after its interests. Community investment Local non-profit organizations and community based programs that need money for their human services programs are invited to file letters of intent to share in $250,000 from Haltons new Commun- ity Investment Fund. The new funding framework provides multi-year stable funding for health and social services pro- grams aligned with Haltons Strategic Plan. Prior to the new framework, the Halton Health Community Fund provided money to the groups 130 one- time projects over 10 years but when it couldnt increase its capacity to meet the needs of Haltons growing community the decision was made to look at other ways to work together with the Halton Funders Network. There is a two-step application process that be- gins with filing a letter of intent accepted until March 18 and those who meet the initial screening criteria will be invited to submit a full application for funding. For more information visit www.halton.ca/com- munityinvestmentfund or call 1-866-442-5866.