WHTY FPUE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 22,- 1989, PAGE.9 $12.2 -nuilion wanted in 1989 for dispoeal of waste * iRegion Waste disposai in Durham Begion is going te cost a lot, but just how much has yet to be decided. Waste management committee last week recommended Durham regional council approve a budget of $12.2-million for 1989, a 2 .9-per cent increase over last year's budget of $9.5-million. The major increase is $2.3- million that Reginr staff have indicated will erequired in 1989 to reach couricil's goal of recycling 25 per cent of the reg on's waste. 9"You are going to fa ce substan- tial costs to reach that goal,» Art Leitch, operations manager, told waste committee. Even though the Reion expects to recover $1 .2-mi l ion through grants and the sale of xecycled material, it is stili going to cost Durham $1.7-million in 1989 to reduce dependency on. landfill sites. "This is just the. tip of the iceberg if you are to reach that 25 per cent goal. You will be lucky if this sum only doubles next year," Leitch warned coln- mittee mémbers. Some of the projects the Begon will undertake in 1989 include a $470,000 expansion to the recycling centre on Conlin Rd..; $520,000 to purchase three new vehciles and four vehicles the centre now leases; $60 000 to implement a household fiazard waste collection demonstration project; and $72,000 to expand the leaf coniposting project. Also included in 'the 1989 budget is a $7.8-million payment toeMetropolitan Toronto for use of the Brock West landfill site which is expected to be full in the spring of19 90. Regional chairman Gary Her- rema told committee hie had met with officiais fromn Metro to determine whether Metro would continue offering rebates to Dur- ham. (Last year Durham rèceived a r.ebate of $22 for every ton of garbage dum«ped ( at a cost of $50) at Brock W est. Metro is expected to raise the tipping fee to $85 a ton but has not indicated it will continue offerin g Durham a rebate. Last year, D urham council voted not to allow Metro to locate a landfll site within Durham as a replace- ment for the Brock West site. "We may be getting a rebate on the residential garbage but CHEESE SPECIALS Available In Wedges SMOKED MILD & SPICED MEDIUM 8.85/ kg 11.85/ kg 13.29Ikg AG ED l4.751kg there has been no decision on the industrial and commercial gar- bage," Herrema told committee members. If Durham was to receive a rebate on ail the garbage it dumps at Brock West, it would total $12-million, which Herrema said would be enough to pay for Durham's waste reduction. pro- gram. The committee has also appro- ved $2.9-million to take care of its own landfill sites including $1.2-million to close its landfill site in Scugog. Region committees are expec- ted to meet the week of April »-14 to discuss their budgets. Regional council is then expec- ted to rive final approval May 3. Prehiminary figures show the Rgeion is facing an overaîl 27.5. per cent tax increase in 1989. Two more -geri- chairs for Fairv iew Lodge TWO MORE geri-chairs have been donated by the Kiwanis Club of Whitby to, Fairview Lodge. Club past president Brick Evans (left) and pre- sident'John May (right) flank resi- dents Leslie Gobbett and Violet Meredith who try the chairs, each worth $900. Kiwanis have now dona- ted five chairs over the past few years. Free Press photo