36 — Surday, April 5, 1998 -- North Shore News

Take it, leave it, don’t touch

Recycling
materials off
limits at North
Shore depot

Robert Galster

News Reporter
robert@nsnews.com

KEN Higgs found out
the hard way that recy-
cling.is not a give aad

date for the recycling lobby’s
poster boy. “hough not a boy,

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Black & white neutered mate.
Dalsy is soft Tortoise shell, spayed.

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Loveabie cream coloured male Tabby,
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the middiz-aged man has
bought into the three R con-
cept (reduce, reuse and reey-
cle) lock, stock and barrel.

“IT reeyele everything,” he
sums up.

The process he has devel-
oped includes keeping reey-
clable products at home until
he has enough to make a nip
to the depot. He made his lat-
est trip last Tuesday.

When he arrived at the
eaepot at the south end of
Riverside Drive in) North
Vancouver, notice the
mixed @ per bin was nearly
full, Several
National Geographic maga-
zine caught his eve.

Ironically, one of the issties
he grabbed featured a cover

Jacob
Chow X, 7 yt. male, black.
No cats, dut very nice fellow.

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Bearded soled ts neutered.
Stili has great spit, sty i
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Rafer
#53 mate, Collie X, black, tan & white.

2 4/2 yes. Likes other dogs. Happy. friendly 43

dog, Rater is a big, loveable dog.
NV SPCA

Lab, Husky, Border Collie mix. Female
11/2 yrs. Bright, lrainabig. good with
peoole. degs, cats. Needs a gcod fence
and an active, outdvorsy owner,
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editions of

story on recycling, but before
he was able to peruse his find
he heard the veice of an agi-
tated depot emplovee.

She told him to put tie
magazines he had picked out
back into the bin. Higgs
refused and the employee
threatened to call the police

“Povas apparently commit:
ting an offence. 1 thought to
myself. ‘There's something
wrong here,’ * said Higgs.

“Whatever [ rake is going
to end up there anyway
because Pm diligent cnough
to take it there.”

The depot is operated by

orth Shore Reeveling. The
depor’s assistant: coordinator
Bryn Johns defended the
employee's reaction.

when they see all these materi-
als.”

There are only three Rs. If
there were a fourth it’s doubr-
ful it would stand for recipro-

cal,

Johns said the depot’s poli-
cies were not as firm when it
opened in January 1997, The
rules were developed to deal
with problems that started
eccurring.

“He quickly became appar-
ent people were taking things
because they were there,” said
Johns.

“It became difficuit for us
to distinguish what) was
acceptable and what's nox

In our
Sheer Beauty insert .
included in
last week's newspa;

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added the staff
iaembers at the depot were
sometimes caught in the mid-
die.

“Wo had to have a firm
policy the staff can go by,”
said Johns. “Quite often we
sce people co googly-eved

We sincerely apologize io our
valued customers and regret
any inconvenience or confu-
sion this may have caused. °

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