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THE HERALD Wednesday February IT 1MI Page Reaction mixed toNDP recycling plan The Herald Local reaction to the provinces plan to make recycling man datory for municipalities businesses and institutions rang ed from support to dissatisfac tion Halton Hills Refuse Reduction Coordinator Paul Sargent said Monday Environment Minister Ruth Grier has recognized the blue box program is at capacity and therefore drastic measures are needed if the waste stream in Ontario is to be reduced by 25 per cent in and 50 per cent in the year Mr Sargent was especially supportive of the governments decision to increase funding for municipal composting programs Based on the success of the TownB composting program Mr Sargent is applying to the pro vince for funding to buy compositors Mr Sargent distributed all 500 composters the Town ordered last year At the opposite end of the spec is Diane van Valk spokesperson for local en vironmental group Incineration Counteracts the Environment ICE The plan is focused too much on recycling and not enough on reuse and reduction initiatives said Ms van Valk During the election campaign the New Democratic Party outlined an environmental plan that was much more ambitious than the governments current position she said The govern ment sold itself as keen en vironmentalists said Ms van de Valk yet their waste reduction targets of 25 per cent and 50 per cent are the same as those of the previous Liberal government Ms Grier made the announce ment about mandatory recycling during a speech she gave last Thursday in Belleville The mandatory program re quires all municipalities except for the smallest to have man recycling programs The goal is to have 90 per cent of the provinces households including farms apartments and cottages recycling by 1995 As well retail stores and other businesses must participate in waste separation Finally users of packaging are required to reduce the amount of packaging they use by per cent by the end of Barbara Halsall President of local environmental group Pro tect Our Water Environmental Resources POWER is cautiously optimistic about the plan Im encouraged to see that something is finally being done said Ms Halsall But she thinks the reduction targets should have been higher If the and per cent targets are reached there is a good possibility people will become complacent permitting the gar bage problem to persist explain edMs Ms Halsall also thought that mixed plastics and other waste items currently not allowed in blue boxes should now be permit ted As well the province should have introduced a plan requiring all households to do some sort of composting or a variation of this Board revises AIDS policy Board of Education trustees have passed a revised policy statement on Human Vims HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS saying the identity of a pupil or staff member infected must be kept confidential The policy originally approved Police award For upgrading the emergency preparedness of his media opera after a lone teenage gunman fired at students in General Brock High School and working above and beyond the call of ty Staff Inspector Kent Laidlaw of the Halton Regional Police has been awarded the Com municator of the Year Award Staff Inspector Laidlaw of the Burlington Detachment received the award at a special awards dinner Tuesday The yearold Staff Inspector a 29year veteran of the police service received the award in recognition of com munications excellence The upgrading of his units emergency preparedness was something he initiated after receiving hundreds of media calls from across the continent when several people were injured at General Brock High School after a gunman fired at students and staff in March of 1990 The in drew international atten because of its disturbing parallel to the Montreal shooting at Ecole Polytechnique say Regional Police Staff Inspector Laidlaw has also conducted a crisis com workshop for all public relations directors of Hospitals and organized a Safety Village a privately funded educational training cen tre to teach road and traffic safe ty to young people in March was reviewed by instructional services staff with input from Halton Region Health Department The trustees say the policy con tinues and only made minor con text changes to the policy One of these context changes was to replace the phrase recognizesthat the identity of a pupil or staff member with HIV or AIDS should be protected to must be kept confidential Other policy statements in clude recognizes that pupils af fected with HIV including AIDS have the right to attend regular classes recognizes that a staff member infected with the HIV in fection has the right to continue employment the attending andor occupa physician will make the determination of whether or not a pupil or staff with HIV is fit or un fit to attend school based on an in dividual assessment and ongoing monitoring of the persons medical status and behavior characteristics alternate instruction for pupils excluded from school should be provided unless the Medical Officer of Health determines otherwise pupils and staff who have family members with HIV infection may not be excluded from school where a staff member with HIV infection becomes too ill to work full access to sick leave long term disability and medical benefits should be ensured Robert Nosal Haltons Medical Officer of Health said at a previous meeting of the board there are 94 reported cases of HIV earners in Halton Of the cases have developed into AIDS Ten of the people with HIV are under the age of 25 Fire Calls Truck catches fire Halton Hills firefighters responded to one fire call this past week on Saturday when a Mazda truck caught fire while travelling or Guelph Street The fire started at 9 am and was quickly ex tingutshed by firefighters who estimated the damage at 1 000 The fire started in the engine area and firefighters are stating the cause of the f was mechanicalelectrical failure MARCH IS 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