WITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRiL 13, 1988, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN ... .. .. .. ... .. .. .. ... .. ..~ . .*. . .....*.......... Il~~~~~~ .......IZ¶ON0FGRBG I mlyla rthe E C .eycngefotsofor.wn.u..p.iyw sem reccpid it wst. ndits byou i dere! ~~10 fe sartgentgraener will makea fresoll tsetin ours.i thecng s thing ny. ew. Boy scothae lhad p aendies fo ron toand oeollectoa n s ee tnd pard fundrpis for ec ads Prseerecyleforomarony rs it forwo Thes"usation w nee adth o tes w rese ash disd A gwe abae crisisthaseieitbe fo mon ngre thand ...... twenty... .. yewsartdenitrealeers wat religa fortder rang oatris. benbck lin sth itistne.Byrscautshavo. ecycables hde .o......... boreoakndto e clleotiony he dedicatadavrofnentaists foulde bothPapsweed to dean their n an, tae tbotatomotf and flattn them; sortherbottles acoresdinastocolr oa.h laes ofand aeffrsuarecycmlring wer reofmve an carefully eort the papers. Even then it was difficuit to find buyers for the waste who would pay enough to even cover the ---- -cost o f trucking. Less than 1% of the waste stream got recycled.______ ________________________________ The crisis has now arrived. People are creating more and more garbage but nobody wants it dumped in their backyard. Metro Toronto, more than any other community, has dilly-dallied around for the last twenty years. Landfill is so much cheaper than any of the alternatives that Metro pliticians followed the easy, least expensive course - ail in the 'j interests of keeping taxes down, of course. Even if Metro does find an interim garbage site, it only postpones the inevitable need to recycle for a couple of years. Ready or not, like it or not, blue boxes are coming to Metro. But even recycling as we are presently experiencing it is only a delaymng tactic in the fight against waste. In a very real sense, the current push to blue box, curb-side pickup of _ recyclables was born eut of one industry~s (the seft-drink producers) desire te create more garbage. They lobbied fer many y~ . ears for a wider range of throw-away containers but the Ontario gevernment stalled them. Finally the government relented in exchange for a commitment te recycle 50% of their containers. To accemplish this, the industry has învested $20 . million ever the next 4 years into promoting curbside collection of ail recyclables. Generous as this might seem, altruism is net their strongest suit - they obviously intend te make a heck of a lot more than that. Nevertheless, it has launched us finally and decisively inte r the world of waste recycling. t is only a beginning. C Ail the soft drink industry committed itself te was te recycle n haîf of their containers. The rest? - they still go te iandfill. Even the most generous estimates agree that ne more than 30% of the waste stream will be diverted inte recycling by the current bluebox program - the rest, more than two-thirds of our garbage will still be buried. Instead of a new site lasting four years, it will now (at most) last six years. Big deal! The fight for landfill sits wll ontnueandgo arther and farther afield... until we csitswill cnbe and omialfutse..lte.ossof..d.o we dfean and sert everything, the miles wiIi be bent uni tney 2 ER G are worthless. Ater aIl, if Mrs. Jones decides she can't be frm5h Turdy ARil1 96 diio f h bothered, is the municipality going te refuse te collect her Wo h HurTBY, WEElY N63EWSio f h garbage? ... only until she complains te her councillor Who, in.the *CnevteMkeSar w O tro inwE ithamuhreued aNrtyiEteApiS j interests of public relations (and votes), will see that her CFederaetion.eSarwnOtai iig iha uhrdcdmjriyi h pi garbage doest o m ta the sis detofl the road. *l Mathesen of Canada is adding te its facilities on Watsen Street and Continental Copper Whic brngs e t mycental hess - ota reycluig iilContent is building a 4,000 square-foot building on Hopkins Street. only succeed if the government gets eut of garbage. People wiill* The WVhitby Kinsmen Club has offered tspnsor the development of Pe1 Sports Park. I. want choices when it comes te serting their garbage. Some will s o er be willing te, pay (a lot I suspect) te have someone else sert their10 ER AG garbage; others will ha willing te, do soe sorting like the o YER AG je crret bue ox pogrmi;wheeasa fe wil coos tofrom the Friday April 13, 1888 edition of the curret lu ergeteibxpor a; werad eas a ilpcoote chWHITBY CHRONICLE cmpt elyegrgae the ir wste. adtk tt ee hc John D. Howden, Whitby's Postmaster, is paid $2,040 a year. David A. Brown, the Govrnnients are net in a position te offer such choices. postmaster at Myrtla is paid $104. 1 m Govrnments can ragulate what gets saved, what gets buried* An Ashburn merchant objects te a report that a quiet game of dominoes can ha played at and what gets burned, but how it gets there will be a matter of his store. He says it is net "a ganibling house." competitive bidding between private contracters. __________________________________