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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR An idea to solve waste crisis with no Editor's Note: The following letter was written by Bill Lishman and sent last week to provincial environment minister Ruth Grier. eR Before you Buy or ON lity be Quill Build Your New Home, oF Visit Our ... NEW HOMES DISPLAY COURT See the actual materials, doors, windows, carpets, cabinets and advanced construction methods that go into a Quality home! @ NO MORE DRAFTS or COLD SPOTS @ FRESH, INDOORAR with Ontario Hydro © AQUETER HOME joke hkl @ LOWER HOME HEATING COSTS Homabeyer ® QUALITY ASSURANCE HWY. 12 at SUNDERLAND (705) 357-3427 Mon.- Fn 10105; Sat & Sun. 10104 Mr. Lishman is chairman of Zero Garbage Scugog, an organization fighting the possibility of landfill in the Township and also dedicat- ed to reducing the amount of garbage society generates. Mr. Lishman"s letter has been slightly abridged for publication here. To the editor: In this letter I hope to open up a new avenue of thought that will aid you in solving the GTA waste crisis and may in the long run serve as a model for solving other communities waste problems. The result, 1 am confident, when developed and combined with a few well thought-out regu- lations, can solve the waste crisis with no likelihood of landfill or incineration. Let us take the principals of mass production and start a reverse chain of de-production involving all the communities of the GTA in a creative, positive process. Consider, all the goods that eventually wind up as garbage, start out as raw materials and are handled many times as they go through the product chain until they become waste. They are han- dled by people who gather raw materials, the component produc- Travel with PRICE INCLUDES: ", Single Price $3,059. each; For further Information please contact Virginia at Marlin Travel 1-416-985-2268 Or the O'Leary's at 1-613-475-2115 'MARLIN PORT PERRY "HAWAII November 18th to December 9th, 1992 * Return transfers from Port Perry to Toronto International Airport by luxury motor coach. * Return airfare with Canadian Airlines to Honolulu. * Accommodation at the Outrigger West (kitchenette facilities). * Voyageur Comprehensive Package Tour Insurance * Fully escorted by John and Millie O'Leary. COSTS: Total Price per person per room. ' Double Price $2,099. each (2 people sharing); Triple Price $1,959. each (3 people sharing). * To hold space, we require a $150.00 deposit per person with" balance due no later than September 15th, 1992. v7 landfill, no incineration ers, the assemblers, shippers, wholesalers, retailers, consumers and finally the garbage people. All these levels, save the last two, are highly organized and con- stantly changing to meet the demand. The system breaks down in organization at the consumer level. Some consumers and garbage handlers attempt to sort the final element in the chain and return the garbage 10 raw materi- als, but the effluent farm is so massive and highly dis-organized thaf there is no single solution. As 4 result, the majority of the materi- al ends up as any ugly, somewhat toxic mass shoved into a hole in the ground. Over the past century, the sys- tem that created garbage overload is mass production. This system has not unul very recently begun to consider the de-production of items after they have served their useful life. The current effort that goes into de-production or recycling of manufactured goods compared to the production of those same goods,is a minor fraction of a per- centage. There is mounting pressure on manufacturers to design products that can be returned to their basic material state with ease. Yet, until all-the manufacturers are on line with recoverable design philoso- phy, we will have waste that can't be handled in any automated way, as is the case with current mass production techniques. It would be foolish to expect a handful of bureaucrats to find . answers to this morass of prob- lems created by a century of furi- ous mass production. All we can expect is landfill technology and the three R programs which are pathetic in scope compared to the big picture. To solve this problem, we should take a lesson from what made mass production so success- ful 'over the past century. That is, many different minds figuring out faster and better ways 10 produce the product more efficiently. If we extend the principals of mass pro- duction 10 the last two steps in the product chain, to the de-produc- tion of waste into its basic materi- als we will solve the waste crisis so quickly, it will astound us. If I were Environment Minister, this is how I would start. First, 0 all those fighting the landfill in the GTA, I would say "OK, you win." There will be no landfill sites, we will take them off the table, you have shown me that you are deeply concerned. Instead, we will set up a system that involves all of you in solving the waste crises we face. We must help each other and the input of those involved must be re-directed into setting up and promoting the new system. The new system must begin in this fashion. As Minister, I would urge all communities in the GTA to set up individual waste de-pro- duction facilities. Not a mass facil- ity, but one taking on a single, spe- cialized segment of the waste stream. Here's an example. Community "X" accepts the task of looking after all the appli- ances for the GTA: fridges, TVs, toasters, etc. Community X might havg volunteered because a large apphance production company within the community is in trou- ble. Workers have been laid off, so there is already a knowledgeable work force available. This com- munity based facility would research world-wide, with help from the environment ministry, to find the best way to collect dis- carded appliances, and recycle the remains within. This appliance reclaim or recy- cle operation could be set up either Please see IDEA, PAGE 7 \2 BUSINESS CARDS \ LETTERHEAD ENVELOPES port parry pri 201 NORTH STREET 985-9755 ) nting limited MARLIN PORT PERRY 'HAWAII nformation Night THURSDAY, JULY 30th at 7 PM At Scugog Memorial Library The evening will be hosted by Hawaii Escorts John & Millie O'Leary. Light Refreshments. For more information please call (416) 985-2268