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Oron :W.,klyTimes,.Wednesday, August 1,f199g Cheaper than Iand fil! Bali game Sunday Newcastle's Mernorial Park will see somne basebaîl action this weekend as the Newcastle Chamrber of Commerce and the Orono BIA go head to head. The last timie thiese teamns played, July lst, 1999, the game ended in a lopsided score in favour of the Newcastle Chamber. Since then, the Times hias learned that one of Newcastle's star players, Ward 4 Couincillor Charlie Trim, is injured, and will not be playing on Sunday. A new Orono BIA initiative to shovel the raw sewage off the Main St. before it getsthe chance to flow freely has developed irnproved upper body strength in teamrn em- bers. This hias resulted in good hiits at bat, very much in evidence at the last practice. The gane is scheduled for 6 P.M. Sunday, at the Memorial Park, on King St. E. in Newcastle. Donations to the food bank will be gratefully accepted. Battie heats up Recycling operators pick plastic bags out of the paper strearn when they are spotted. Pl up the screens and causes havoc at the paper iii where the paper is recycled. The newspaper thar leaves the Region of Durhamn recy- dling facility could be back on the newsstands in two weeks, according to Recycling Super- visor Sue Campbell. Twenty-two recycling trucks, owned by Miller Waste, who have the contract to collect the Region's recyclables, cruise the Region five days a week emptying blue boxes at the curb. They make only two trips daily to the Centre to dump their loads. One of the biggest changes in the local recycling scene, is how the material is picked up, said Campbell. Drivers sort recyclables as they are dumped into the trucks. Trucks are equipped with four cornpart- ments. Cardboard and __boxboard, newspapers and ý-household papers, containers - plastic and metal, and glass, each get sorted into separate compartments at point of pick- up. This eliminates the need to sort through materials when they end up at the recycling centre. When a full truck cornes to the Recycling Centre, they back into one of the bays, and drop off the card and box- boards, then they move over to the next bay to drop off the paper. Containers get dumped directly into bins outside as 'oes the glass. The cardboard, boxboard and papers are dumped onto a conveyor beit, baled and loaded onto waiting tractor trailers. The paper is sold to the Atlantic.Packaging Mill in Whitby, the board is sold to their plant in Scarborough. Plastic and metal containers are shipped to the Regional sorting station in Pickering, and the glass goes to Miller Waste in Quebec for sorting. This Regional facility has been in operation for il years. Presently 25% of the Regions waste is diverted from landfill, either through recycling or composting of yard waste. The Region of Durham will pay $4.2 million in 1999 to col- lect, process and have recy- clables ready for market. Prom the sale of these materials, the Region expects to receive $2.2 million. The cost to recycle Durham's forecast 29,800 tonnes of recyclables this years is approximately $70 per tonne. The cost to transfer and dis- pose the Region's estimated 122,000 tonnes of garbage this year will be $10 million. That works out to approximately $82 per tonne to dispose of the Region's waste. One of the recommrenda- tions made by the Waste Man- agement Advisory Commrittee for consideration by the Region is to set a waste diversion goal of 50% by the year 2007. 1The Comm ittee also recomn- mend that more materials be added to the blue box programn. The latest item to be included into the blue box programn it # I clear plastics. These plastics are recycled into carpeting, clothing, plastic pi'p'ing, and. various non food packaging. The next item that could be added to the blue box programn is 92 plastics, but Campbell warns it is very costly to include an item that does not have a stable market. Regions that have done so, have paid the added collection costs, processed the materials just to have themn end up in landfill. Currently participation in the blue box recycling pro- gram is voluntary. The Waste Management Advisory Comn- mittee recommend that recy- dling become mandatory throughout the Region. Though the system current- ly is very efficient, according to Campbell, a simple thing like a plastic bag in the paper streamn can really mess things up. Plastic clogs up the screens at the mill slowing down that entire process. Unless the operator spots the bags and manually removes themn at the curb, they wiil end up at thre milI. Earlier this month the Salvation Army had blue bags for recycling cloth- ing, inserted into the 140,000 Metroland Newspapers that are distributed Region wide. Campbell said thousands of these bags were left in the papers when they were dis- carded into the biue box. Bags that were spotted by the operators and pulled out, ended up in landfill. As new markets emerge for recyclable materials, the system wvill continue to gener- ate revenue for thre Region. "Recycling is cheaper ïhan putting out green gyarbage bags," said Campbell, "whichi will get a whole lot more expensive when) Keele Valley closes in two yea rs." Ail of the Regions waste except Clarington's and Brock Town- ship's is trucked to Keele Val- ley. The Region is involved in a Long Termi Solid Waste Man- agemnent Plant. A Waste Mani- agement Advisory Commnittee reviewed thre existing waste systemn in the Region, and toured. The Comrnittee has come uip with a list of 27 rec- ommendations to improve the overaîl waste >handling system in the Region. The Waste Management Steering Com- mittee will now deal with the report and the recommenda- tions. It is hoped the Regional Council wiII deal with the report this fal RECYCLE There is already a good line up of bands participating in this years' Battie of the Bands. The Battie will be hld on Friday September 10, at the Orono Pair. John Thomson and Eric Dreslinski of Apogee Produc- tions, organizers of tis years Battie, have got several local bands, somne from within the Reg ion and one fromn Hawks- bury - The Chesterfields, booked for the event. To qualify, bands mnust play at least 50% original miaterial. Each band will get 25 minutes to do their thing on stage, starting at 7:30 p.m.,, with the last band finishing up at 11:15 p.m. Bands will be reviewed by a panel of four judges who will be Iooking for originality, musicianship, audience response and stage presence. Participation in an event like this gives up-and-coming bands a good opportunity to do some recording, said Dres- linski in an interview on Mon- day. First prize is 20 hours of recording time at The Armouries 32 track digital recording studio. Second prize is 12 houirs of recording time and third prize is 8 hiours. A bonus prize of 5 hours recording time will bc given to the Band that selîs the rnost tickets to the Fair. Corne on out and help the bands battle it ouit. raper Mache for aôuVo * kinderqarten Artý, (aqe54 &5) 0 Creative Prama I ~ ai,(a,3e5 b-12) el[ayMucic * (up o 5yri5) * (aqee, 2 & 5) 47 5'cuipturc * (ae6 &-14) TO REGISTER CALL: (905) 29AT 5331 Main St., Orono LOB 1 MO TIERM 1: Sept 21 - Oct 29 LTERM 2: Nov1 - Decl13 1*a *aM MORRIS FUNERAL CHAPEL LTD SERVING DURHAM REGION SINCE 1841 ALL FUNERAL SERVICES PREAIRRANGED AND/OR PREPAID BURIAL - CREMATION - TRANSFERS "WHERE PROFESSIONAL ÉTIQUETTE 15 IMPORTANT" FUNERAL DIRECTORS PAUL R. MORRIS GARY M. CON WAY DOUG R. RUTHERFORD DEBRA D. KELLEHER 623-5480 4 DIVISION ST., BOWMANVILLE - AT QUEEN ST.