Jumbo trash bins should
go route of the dinosaur

would suffice.
As for the giant call-out cans —
it seems obvious that they are just

Open tetter to North Vancouver
District Council:

] believe that most people in the
district are now aware of the cur-
rent offer from the municipality
to obtain the new extra large gar-
bage can on wheels.

Because it is hydraulically lifted
and dumped, this should save
your garbage man/woman's back
and WCB claims. However, just
what does this can really ac-
complish?

It is true these roll-out cans are
for the most part animal-proof.
However, so are regular cans for
people who dispose of their gar-
bage properly.

Granted, it is on wheels, and it
should be easy to roll around —
that is until it snows, or you hap-
per to have a driveway that is
sloped and it is frosty or icy.

And, yes, these green monsters
should be large enough for a fam-
ily, but are they? It seems not.
Often homes with the large wheel-
ed cans also have regular cans and

bags, and bundles of bushes as
well!

The move toward jumbo gar-
bage containers has gone exactly
in the wrong direction. In this day
of the green revolution, the only
thing green about these cans is the
color.

Instead of reduce and recycle,
giving some people a bigger can
means getting bigger garbage.

No longer is even the weight of
an article a problem. The wheeled
cans frequently show up with
bricks, rocks, drywall, metals,
and, yes, even dirt, simple garden
dirt! Why? — because they are
given a can to do it with.

What should be done? For
starters, the long overdue recycl-
ing program should get underway.
Next would be to encourage peo-
ple to compost their garbage.
Other items such as chemicals,
drywall, paints, etc. — the district
should give you proper informa-
tion on where and how to deal
with these items. A note attached
to your yearly garbage calendar

the wrong thing at the wrong
time, and should go the soute of
the dinosaur. Other municipalities
with more aware civic councils are
gung-ho with recycling and have
started proper curbside pick-up
and maintained regular sized gar-
bage cans.

My personal insight as to what
passes through our garbage stream
arises from my job doing garbage
with the District of North Van-
couver for some II years. This
letter will probably get me consid-
erable condemnation from my su-
periors.

However, I feel the residents of
the District of North Vancouver
should be properly served and the
correct decision should be made.
Larger wheeled cans and a
throw-away society, or, a new,
better-thought-out plan which en-
courages recycling?

T. Caldwell
North Vancouver

Eco-content appreciated

Dear Editor:
1 must tell you how much we
are enjoying the News — par-

ticularly the editorials and the two
outstanding columns concerning
the environment.

Bob Hunter’s Eco Logic and
the more recent addition of Peggy

Trendell-Whittaker’s Eco Info
give us most imporant informa-
tion and will further public
awareness of the dangers facing
our environment if we do not
change our habits.

They may have helped convince
Super-Valu to add the page with

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products and a whole page of
other green Enviropak products.
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North Vancouver

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