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GSS OFFICE SUPPLIES Goorgotown Secretarial ST QEOROETOWN 877 DOWNTOWN FAX SERVICE Evenings Saturdays Too ill vounci a ito Downtown FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY JANUARY 3rd 1990 PAGES Town set to implement mandatory recycling By DONNA KELL the Herald Halton Hills residents who refuse to use their Blue Boxes for sorting newspapers bottles and cans could risk losing their garbage pick up The town is now working on a bylaw to punish the estimated five to per cent of residents who are still putting into green garbage bags Town recycling co Paul Sergent says the first move was made by Halton Region in January when council voted to have the municipalities legislate mandatory recycling for We ve provided opportunities for everybody to recj their residential waste Mr Sergent said There s no reason why on garbage day people can t separate their from other gar bage Hills will accept newspaper corrugated cardboard glass jars and bottles metal food and beverage containers plastic soft drink containers and magazines catalogues and books in the Blue Boxes The first recycling program in Halton Hills was started in when the town was involved in a provincial ministry of the environ pilot project A year ago the town implemented the Blue Box cm bside garbage pick up But town garbage pick up now includes only urban areas Blue Boxes will not be in place in rural areas until a policy expected to be written and approved by HaltonHills government this year allows rural garbage pick up to begin in October or November Mr says Regional vaste management director John said rural areas now use large Blue Boxes for recyclables Apartment dwellers can look for Blue Bags to be introduced for recycling materials Us early as sometime this month Waste pick up drivers will monitor the use of the Blue Box Mr Sergent said If no recyclable materials appear at the for several consecutive pick a slicker will be attached to one gar bage bag We 11 take the rest of the bags and we 11 leave one behind They say how come my garbage hasn been picked up Mr Sergent said The next step enforcing recvcl could be to hand deliver a let ter to the resident s home warning of an impending fine or the threat of losing garbage pick up altogether Mr said in Oakville the place Hills used to model its own policy fines tan recn 1 for Blue Box offenders But it s unlikely Halton Hills would stop a resident s garbage pick up service I cutting off the service is probably threat enough for people to start the Blue Box system Mr Sergent said It would have to be a very ob vious abuse of the garbage system before service is discontinued Mr said Ninety to 95 per cent of people who have garbage pick up in Halton Hills use the Blue Box pro gram for recycling compared to a lower Region wide average of to per cent The latest initiative in Halton Hills is aimed at the five to 10 per cent of those who don recycle and could take three to four months to be passed bv Hills council I can t see it happening before then Mr Sergent said With Halton sending its garbage to sites in Niagara Falls and New York State for disposal at a cost of mdlion a month the Region s waste management team is trying to reduce the amount of waste go ing into landfill sites Right now we re at about or 16 per cent waste diversion from landfill sites and that s without a mandatory push towards recycl Mr Sergent said But with mandatory recycling we could reach per cent Three more charges for Sunday openings The Sunday shopping issue just won t go away Three stores in Georgetown and stores in the rest of Halton Region were charged for opening on Sunday Dec 31 under the pro vincial Retail Business Holidays Act Police charged A and on Sinclair Avenue on Guelph Street and Shoppers Drug Mart also on Guelph Street in Georgetown A Feb court dite has been scheduled in connection with all three charges The manager of Ron and his counterpart at A and Rob Junes comment on whether their store would be open this coming Sunday But the franchise owner of Shop pers Drug Mart said he would continue to open his store Sundays Martha Durdin a spokesperson for the Committee for Fair Shopp ing which includes A and P and Dominion Supermarkets Ltd and the Group Ltd said the A and Loblaws chains would open their stores this Sunday She also said there is a good chance the stores will con tinue to be open on following Sun days in Georgetown and throughout Halton Region s depart ment has said it will take the major grocery chains and other repeat Sundiy opening offenders to the Ontario Supreme Court to attempt getting an injunction to stop the stores from opining But no one in the legal depart ment could give a date when they would take them to court The chains are defying the cur rent legishtion to protest its me qui ties said Ms Durdin The group disagrees that some stores are allowed to open on Sun days while others are not The protest openings began Nov 12 and since then has been charged the two times it has been illegally opened A and has out on All the way down boys Kids and parents alike were at the North Halton up New Year Day Here yearold Martin Coll Country Club in Georgetown tobogganing front and his older brother John catch some an tral skiing and generally whooping it tbey speed down Mil at the hole