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Region opens $700,000 recycling centre 10 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 5 1988 (From page 2) The cost of the building and equipment of $700,000 was paid jointly by the Region and provin- cial governments Ren Dunn, director of Ontario Multi-Materials Recycling Inc. said there are currently 700,000 blue boxes in use for household trash in Ontario, and that figure will double in the next couple of years. And Durham Region has the highest rate of citizen participa- tion of any Ontario municipality, he said. Provincial and Regional gov- ernment, along with soft drink makers and packagers are contrib- uting heavily to recyeling pro- grams in Ontario. Although the recycling blue box 'program in Scugog is now limited to the Port Perry area only for curb-side pick-up, any resident outside Port Perry who wants (to recycle household trash can drop off newspapers, glass bottles and tin cans at special depots at the transfer station just east of Blakc- tock or the Scugog dump on Re- gional Road 8. Probably one reason why re- cycling appears to be catching on with the public in Durham Re- gion is because of the wide pub- licity given the pending garbage crisis in this area. The Scugog dump will be filled in less than 18 months, and the Metro Toronto controlled dump in Pickering where most of Durham's trash now goes, will be filled in about two ycars time. Just where Durham's garbage will go when that day comes has not been determined. wn SGUARE BOY PIZZA Pizza -- Subs -- Lasagna -- Panzerotti -- 285-8448 SUBS These characters provided a colourful message hs igh at the Recycling Centre official opening last week. Household trash such as old newspapers, tin cans and bottles can be recycled to help keep the environment cleaner for future generations. oo di Assorted - Salami - Ham - Rib Cheese - Turkey - Roast Beef Corned Beef - Pizza - Meatball Bacon & Tomato - Seafood - Club LUNG ASSOCIATION DURHAM REGION WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE MEMORIAL DONATIONS RECEIVED -- IN REMEMBRANCE OF -- Charles Adams George Herd Thomas Akey Russell Humphreys Harry Allender Jack Hunter Dr. W.W. Baldwin Elvira Jordan Jack Brown Dr. Archie King Marion Burr Robert Malcolm Olive Cheseboro Norman McColm Kate Connolly - ~ Jack Pledger Ed Copperthwaite Charles Redshaw William De Guerre Myrtle Reddick Herbert Dervent Bob Sanders Harvey A. Drake Lila Shetler Murray Duff Gertrude Simmerson Mrs. K. Durno Paul Wilson Smith David Flug Dr. Robert Starr Albert Fisher John Sweeney Marjorie Frost Samuel Thompson Gerald Gascoigne Phyllis Underwood Joseph Hart Donalda Winter Marion Hartman. : Regional chairman Gary Herrema, Whitby Mayor Bob Attersley and Dur- ham' West MPP Norah Stoner were among the officials on hand for the opening of the Regional Recycling Centre last week. Some 1200 metric tonnes of household trash each month arrives at the Centre with about 85,000 "blue boxes" now In use throughout Durham Region. THESE THOUGHTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS HELPED FUND PROGRAMS TO ASSIST LOCAL RESIDENTS SUFFERING FROM ASTHMA, LUNG CANCER, AND EMPHYSEMA. "If one life has breathed easier because you have lived, you have succeeded." _- Ralph Waldo Emerson