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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, April 18, 1989 Public meeting planned on garbage crisis Are you concerned about the garbage crisis in Durham Region? Looking for some answers to the many questions that sur- round this issue? Do you have some ideas about what can be done to help find solutions to this crisis? A public meeting has been scheduled for this Thursday night (April 20) at Uxbridge High School (3rd Street, Ux- bridge) The meeting gots under- way at 7:30 PM, and is part of a series of similar meetings being held this week at other loca- tions in Durham to discuss one thing: garbage. Interested residents who 'live in Scugog are specifically encouraged to attend the Ux- bridge meeting. t is being organized by the Region and MacLaren Engi- neers Inc., the consulting firm that has been retained by Dur- Thursday April 20 Big V Pharmacists will present... AS A date on Big V's calendar when the pharmacist focuses all of his professional training and experience for you. They stand ready to answer all of your questions relating to health and pharmacy. /, 1 Some of the questions you may have... What, if any, side effects will | experience from taking my medication? How and when should | be taking my medication? How does this medication work? ask yg about ary Smith & Smith Big V A registered nurse will be conducting a blood pressure clinic from 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm It's a day of knowledge--it's a day you'll get to know more about your health. No appointments, no siress . . . Just nice people, professional people keeping you and your family up-to-date on good health. medication 9s ang If you have a group or association of Your Big V pharmacist on duty is Karen Watpool people who may be interested In having a professional Blg V Pharmacist speak to your group about pharmacy related topics, then ASK US! of vour Ire ham to come up with a Solid' Waste Management Master Plan. Public meetings are the first step in the long process to come up with this Master Plan. Durham Region currently generates some 300,000 tonnes of garbage each year. Through re-cycling and re- duction programs, the Region hopes that 26 per cent of this, or about 80,000 tonnes can be di- verted by 1998. But that still leaves the Re- gion with the major problem of what to do with the trash that is not re-cycled. The Waste Management Master Plan will address this (and other)questions. Garbage is an issue that no longer can be ignored by the public. To find out more and have a chance to have your say, attend the meeting this Thursday night at the Uxbridge Seconday School. Shops do their recycling share As most people know, the ~~ blue box re-cycling program in .'Port Perry at this time does not include commercial business. © Local restaurant owner Emiel Kroonenberg finds this puzzling since his establish- ment generates a lot of empty non-returnable bottles and tins. Last week, he decided to try a small "experiment." He col- lected all the empty wine, liquor and imported beer bottles which were destined for the dump, and left them at a "blue box" pick-up at a residence in Port Perry. There were more than 100 of the bottles. And the next morning the recycling truck took them away. . He a he plans to contin- ue doing this, if he does not get any objections from the re- cycling ple who pick up in the Tostdential areas of Port Perry. "I feel very strongly about re-cycling. I think we all have to do our part. It's not a big incov- nenience for me to get rid of the bottles this way," he told the Star. And he is also taking some other measures to cut down on the garbage that normally would end up in landfill sites. Emiel and his neighbour Phil McBride, who owns the Galley Fish and Chips next door to Emiel's Place are co- operating to separate all their "wet garbage" (scraps from the kithen and plates, etc) They put this stuffin a con- tainer and have an agreement with an area farmer who picks it up twice a week and feeds it to his hogs. In summer, the farmer has agreed to pick up the scraps everyday, miel and Phil have also set up a container for all their cardboard garbage, and once a week, they haul the cardboard to the re-cycling bin at the for- mer dump on Regional Road 8. NR a SR SaaS RG ES A