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THE HERALD Wedaciday January The Rs of Waste Management REDUCTION of the waste you need to discard REUSE your wastes RECYCLE wherever possible RECOVER your waste from the waste stream IMPORTANT INFORMATION If you reside in Halton Hllli place only the following itemt in your blue box or rural drop off depot Clean beverage and food cans Newspapers Plastic pop bottles only glass baffles and Telephone books books and catalogues COMPOSTING I Composting is the breakdown of material by soil organisms by composting kitchen yard waste people can reduce household garbage by 35 and at the same time produce an excelled fertilizer conditioner for the garden of kitchen waste is unused food I not including plate scrapings Food I wastes can be composted Excess food can be given to food banks LEAF COMPOSTING Approximately 60 70 trash collected in the fall season is yard waste Leaf composting is a solution to collection and landfill problems DID YOU KNOW We are more of a throwawoy society than was the case or years ago About of our municipal waste is packaging The amount of money Canadians spend each year on packaging is greater than the combined net annual In come of all Canadian farmers Throwing away on pop can wastes as much energy as pouring out ahalf of gasoline Each person In Ontario produces about a kilogram 2 2 lbs of garbage every day Most of it goes to landfill sites Recycling one ton of saves three cubic yards of landfill space Recycling conserves natural resour ces helps improve the environment and creates jobs The standard goal for waste reduc lion through recycling in Ontario is 50 while in Europe the goal is from to In Ontario million households are served by Blue Box programs Recycling of household wostes has become popular across the province The blue Recycle boxes have suddenly generated about 15 tons a year of used steel cans according to Oof a Plastic soft drink containers PET polyethylene are recycled into new products such as shower stalls auto dashboards skis fence posts and audio cassettes Scrap nylon from a Pont plant in Kingston Ontario is being turned Into hockey helmets rather than being dumped as waste The use of recycled materials reduces the energy required for the J production of steel and paper by more than a half A television set will operate for I three hours on the energy saved by recycling one aluminum can A watt light bulb will operate for four hours on the energy saved by recycling one glass bottle The production of recycled paper uses 15 to lets water than the production of paper from virgin fibre Newsprint now accounts for appro imatety of material recovered by recycling project