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vu, j, - OronoW.okly Timese Wednsday,.Qtobr1,,1-I KAimettes host National President Last week the Great Pine Co-ordinator, Marj Rempel, Pine Ridge Kinettes. Ridge Kinettes hosted their (right). The event was held at St. National President, Gail The two are pictured above Francis of Assisi church hall. Malcolm, and District Kinette with Janet Oegema of the Great wasteful habits,.'This is a great idea since we are the worlds greatest generators of waste! Two locations are being studied at the Brock West Landfill which opened in 1975. The first location is in an area that was "filled" between 1981 and 1987. The second location contains waste dumped during the past year. Here, a six-month old newspaper was found, completely in tact. It was readable, and retained its shape. The coloured and black inks had neither faded nor run. Fabric was predominant as was corrugated cardboard. There was an abundance of ash, estimated to be from a Region of Durham sewage treatment plant. Nothing had been degraded, including a plastic bag full of grass clippings which were stili fresh and green. The older location was ripe with sewage sludge which had aided in the degradation of waste. Even after being out of the study hole for more dha 24 hours, this waste was stili hot (being approximately 87 degrees C in its location 90 feet down> and continued to emit steamu in the cool faîl air. There were tires, bicycle pieces, carpet, corrugated cardboard, and the sewage sludge - lots of it! Evident at both study holes was a vast quantity of plastic bags. What wasn't there? we al recognized very quickly the near absence of cans and glass. You thought garbage was boring? Maybe when you take it to the curb it appears to be. But, to an archaeologist like Bill Rathje, garbage is history - garbage is science. And, to future archaeologists, garbage is evidence of the crimes of the century - our excessive waste and environmental disregard. YES! Get the facts, Let's Talk. Cal the .OntariqMinistry of Health-XIDS HQtline 1-8OCt-68-AIDS Archaeologist conduct First- Ever Canaidian by Helen MacDonald With a group numbering twenty five keen individuals, I disembarked from the bus and surveyed a "breathtaking" vîew - the sparkling, great blue body, L-ake Ontario to the south and the Oak Ridges Moraine to the north. The sky was almost cloudless and fromi our vantage point, we could see to the distant east and west, a panoramnic scene painted in golden yellows, brilliant oranges, fiery reds, and lush greens. What was unnatural about this vîew? We were sta nding atop the Brock West Landfill in Pickering and it certainly "took your breath away! ". Over seven hundred individuals attended the Recycling Council of Ontarios l2th Annual Conference held in Toronto last week. As a regular feature, participa nts attend tours of waste management or diversion facîlities, such as central composting center, a hazardous waste facility, or plastics, drywall, glass etc. recycling facilities. A last minute tour of the Brock West Landfill was added to the itinerary as a result of a visit from world- reknowned Archaeologist, Dr. William Rathje, Director of "The Garbage Project', University of Arizona. Takîng to my heels, 1 joined the mad rush to gain a seat on the pilgrimage to see Bill Rathje, famous archaeologist, conduct a "Dig" at a local garbage dump. You may have read about Bill Rathje in the May, 1991 issue of National Geographie. He does not travel the globe to the great pyramids, or Ancient Aztec nins. He does not dlig dinosaur bones or study the ways of our First Nation peoples. He is an affable man who, as he puts it himself, "k ..does science.'* Garbage is serious business. Why study garbage? Rathje says that's aIl archaeologists do anyway. Whereas most archaeologists study the garbage of ancient civilizations, Rathje studies the refuse of modem man - in fact, most of his research is conducted in i<ndfills which may bc less than k .Alf a century old. Feeling rather silly wearing the comtpulsory hard hats, our group of eager env ironmentalists, government representatives, consultants, industry representatives and journalists gathered around at the "dig site", becoming sensitized to the ever- present, ever-strong odour, and 1listened intently to our guide. All the while, truckload after truckload of garbage was arriving from points throughout.the Metro and Durham area, and being dumped behind us. A team of students front the University of Toronto, and the University of Arizona, were conducting the excavation using a 63,000 pound auger, digging approximately 100 feet at a time, retrieving 200 pounds of refuse from depths of about 90 feet. Wearing medical masks, graduate an d undergraduate students painstakingly hand sorted, analyzed and catalogued the samples providing never-before-available Canadian research data in this first landfill excavation in the history of Canadian waste management. -Trash Research Corporation (TRC), a non-profit corporation working with federal, provincial and regional levels of govermnent, environment and other special interest groups and private business estimates the detailed sorting, research and recording will take up to six months following excavation of the Brock West Landfill and two closed sites - the Burlington Landfill in Halton Region and the Beare Road Landfill in Scarborough. Investigations will include archaeological, hydrological, toxicologiocal and microbiological research, Tt is expected that the research will measure the effects of recyclîng and waste reduction efforts to date, which, in turn, will assist in the development of future environental programs. 1 'Neyer before in Canada's history has there been the opportunity to excavate and study actual landfill deposits", said Jack McGinnis, TRC Co-Director, who further stated, "We are really excited about what this will mean to Canadas future environmental planning." 1Researchers believe that studies of both closed and operating, landfill sites will yield the best possible cross section of information for both industrial and consumer waste patterns. TRC is confident the research conducted on the composition and condition of landflll material will yield valuable data, influencing the future of enviromental planning at all levels of government throughout the business sector. 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