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Page THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday December 1990 New Year resolutions By BARBARA HALS ALL You Can Impact Environmental Problems Act Now is fast approaching and it is time to think about New Year s resolutions Many times people quietly resolve to make some changes or move in a new direc without ever announcing their resolve This year how about having a family discussion with each member resolving to do something to help protect the planet Earth Buy less Do you make unn cessary purchases Buy reusable items The in gift this year is a shaving brush and mug In November two tatives of a teachers group made a presentation to the Halton Board Environmental Awareness Committee They wanted to encourage students to donate money to environmental groups instead of giving gifts to teachers You could support some of these groups including Gro Harlem Brundtland Prime Minister of Norway chaired the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development The commission report was published in Our common future serves notice that the time has come for a marriage of economy and ecology so that governments and their people can take not just for environmental damage but far the policies that cause damage SOME OF THESE POLICIES THREATEN THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE CAN BE CHANGED BUT WE MUST ACT NOW emphasis added This has been called the turn around decade Many claim that we before our window of opportunity is gone Have you made any changes in your daily habits We have all contributed to the many pro blems the earth is now facing We must all share the responsibility for working on solutions Start by examining your daily habits The things we buy and even how we brush our teeth can make a difference Cars use a tremendous amount of resources to manufacture and create pollution problems as they are used Could you drive less Even if you share a to work once a week that is a beginning Try walking more If you drive keep your car in good repair with tires properly inflated Blue boxes needing help POWER that are fighting for our common future either by donating time or money At work as that your company do a waste audit Set up a com mittee to look at environmental issues Companies who have already tried this have shown some excellent cooperation can come from employees Resolve to take political action in the New Year By mid January Halton Region will respond to a request from the Ministry of the Environment to comment on the agenda submitted by Systems Inc to their En vironmental Assessment on the Acton Quarry as a landfill Our region said that the original A document was in adequate They have not said a definite no to the garbage pro posal Contact the Chairman Mr Pomeroy if you want to express your concern Write letters to politicians at all levels They must be urged to move faster on environmental legislation and enforcement Wnte letters to provincial pohti cians Ask the Minister of the En Ruth Gner Suite 100 135 St Clair West Toronto M4V to stop the Acton Quarry Landfill proposal The world situation is cntical Anything you can do to prevent further problems is important You can make a difference Together we can accomplish a great deal Reminder Turn on Christmas lights after 7pm Provided by the University of Ontario Agricultural College Rob McLaughlin dean The blue box needs some help That what University of engineering professor Lambert Otten thinks He s just finished the first part of a two- year project at the City of Guelph landfill site to prove municipal composting is the blue box ideal mate is a recycling leader It was one of the first cities in North America to launch a bluebox curbside program But blue boxes can t handle Guelph householders jam at least 200 tons of trash into green garbage bags every day says per cent of that waste is compostable He s testing this theory in conjunction with the city which further to its recycling leadership position has engaged 600 homes to take part in a pilot composting pro gram In the program householders separate their garbage into recyclables and compostables The latter are processed through a pilot composter at the landfill site The composter consists of three primary reactors and three secondary reactors made of stacked precast concrete blocks open at one end for loading and unloading Each primary reactor holds about five tons of waste On arrival the compostables are deposited in a primary reac tor for initial composting Bacteria consume the compost and in the process give off heat perpetuating growth The key is to keep the temperature at a constant 60 C Three weeks later the compost is emptied into a secondary reactor for six weeks then cleared into a window and left for four months to cure in the open Ultimately the waste matures and becomes a rich soil that could be put on lawns gardens and fields It a friendly process says First there waste then there s something soil Mary Doesnt Tell Emporium for New and Previously Enjoyed Hems 5192386441 Ontario Street Grand Bend 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