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Page I THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday April 12 Environment Reuse beats Recycling By BARBARA HALSALL Reuse Beats Recycling How times have changed The 3Rs used to stand for reading writing and reckoning Now they stand for Reduce Reuse and Recycle It is no accident that Reduce and Reuse come ahead of Recycle This order is inten While recycling is impor tant and gets far more media ex reduction is the best op tion and reuse is the second best with recycling coming in only third Clothing should never be thrown out Things that have been outgrown can be passed on to friends or neighbours Items that are nearly new can be sold at in Georgetown The Salvation Army is always glad to accept donations and some churches collect clothes for needy people or hold rummage sales Garage sales are a great way to keep many things from going to disposal One mans junk is another man s treasure It is a tremendous waste of our scarce resources to throw out anything that could be used by someone else Very often only a small amount of repair will give an item new life The University Womens Club Book Sale taking place later this month connects used books with new owners When that sale is over POWER will pick up the books that have not found a home and they will be on sale at POWERS Giant Garage Sale on Saturday April from un til 4 Yes POWER is still raising money to fight the dump ed for the Acton Quarry We feel very good about fund raising through a garage sale because so many things will be reused as a result Anyone who does not want the bother of holding their own garage sale can call POWER for a pick up Ruth or drop off the donation on Friday night- April 26th after m at the town works yard on Trafalgar Road in Georgetown Schools are looking at how to reduce lunch garbage by en students to bring con tamers that can be reused such as thermos bottles and lunch boxes Reuse plastic shopping bags or carry your own canvas bag to be reused a thousand times Remember to question the one time use of anything Reuse is better You can make a dif ference Blue box program to expand ByBENDUMMETT The Herald A Helton Regional pilot pro gram to expand the blue box pro gram in order to divert more gar from the waste stream will likely get the goahead to start up Regional Planning and Public Works Committee recommended the yearlong 000 program start this June Involving 650 residents in Joshua Creek Com of If the pilot projects proves successful it would be expanded Region wide the report states The Regions share of the cost is The province pays the remaining amount The pilot project calls for the residents to separate more of their garbage at source than is currently required through the recognized blue box programs The residents will continue to put material such as bottles cans newspapers in a blue box like container However they will also be required to deposit waste such GIC RATE Rats Subject To Changs Without Notice as grass clippings and leaves in clear plastic bags These bags will be collected and transported to a compost site in Oakville and converted into soil nutrients for agriculture Material not suitable for the blue box or the plastic bags will constitute garbage Halton Director of Waste Management John told committee Wednesday the pro ject will determine if an expand ed blue box program can divert more potential waste from the waste stream Alternative methods must be found if Halton is to meet the provincial require ment that all municipalities divert 50 per cent of their waste from dumps by the year If the pilot project proves suc cessful it will be expanded Region wide he said The element of the project is only centred on garden waste because this is the best material to convert into compost High quality compost must be developed in order to determine if markets for the material can be found said Mr Its his hope that the material can be of such high quality that the Region will be able to sell the compost material to Halton s far ming community At the very least the material must be good enough that the fanning com would be willing to accept the material free of charge Mr explained Mr Mackay told committee depending on the quality of the compost the potential exists to collect other wet materials such as kitchen vegetable waste along with garden waste if the project is expanded throughout the Region He said expansion will require the Region to build a larger and more technically advanced com post facility under the scenario Oakville Regional Councillor Janet Mitchell although sup portive of the project said she would have preferred that the collection of kitchen waste be In cluded in the pilot project Halton Regional Council will vote on committees recommen dation this Wednesday nfMIA RESIDENTIAL CONSULTANTS PLANS NOW Working Drawings For Residential Commercial Building Permits New and Renovations Childrens Help Mister Donut Raise Dough For The Hospital For Sick Children DONATE Miracle Network And Receive A Coupon Booklet To GET Worth of 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