20 - Friday, Nov. 27, 1992 —- North Shore News

ENVIRONMENT

GVRD green kit targets
business sector initiatives

YOU’VE DITCHED
disposables. You’re com-
mitted to composting.
You’re rampantly recycling.

Once you've become an avid
environmentalist on the home
front, it becomes doubly irritating
to witness the huge bags of gar-
bage being trucked away from
local businesses or institutions.

For some people, the amount of
garbage produced by the “IC and
I’ sector — Industrial, Commer-
cial and Institutional —
discourages them from taking ac-
tion to cut down on their own
waste; what, after all, can one
person do in the face of all that
junk from businesses?

Of course, individual residents
can and should clean up their own
back yard: we do, after all, pro-
duce almost 40% of the two mil-
lion tonnes of waste discarded in
the GVRD annually.

«(For those now scrinching up
their brows and reaching for their
calculators, two million tonnes is
roughly equivalent to two B.C.
Piace Stadiums overflowing with
garbage.)

. But if we are to meet the 50%
waste reduction goal mandated by
the province by the year 2000, all
of us, including the IC and I sec-
tor, are going to have to take
some pretty decisive action.

House holders have been helped
by the implementation of blue box
recycling programs, which remove
approximately 15% of the materi-
al from the residential waste
stream. We are also being con-
tinually educated on composting,
how to reduce our use of packag-
ing, end the evils of disposables.

Now the Greater Vancouver
Regional District is turning its at-
tention to the IC and I sector,
having been given responsibility
for the implementation of waste
reduction in this area by Bill 29
(the Waste Management Amend-
ment Act), which was passed. by
the provincial legislature this year.

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To that end, the GVRD has
published an IC and I waste
reduction kit called ‘Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle: It’s Your
Business!”’ It’s free, and full of
information to anyone wanting to
Start or further ‘‘green’’ initiatives
in their company.

Included in the package are a
guide listing places io buy recycled
office products, information on
doing a waste assessement that
will show you how much, and
what kind, of garbage your com-
pany is currently creating,
“‘sreen’’ reminders to post at dif-
ferent work stations, tips on
reducing, reusing and recycling,
and advice on how to find mar-
kets for your waste material.

Finding a collector for your
waste is often the most difficult
step in the proceedings. To help,
the GVRD has published an In-
dustrial Recycling and Disposal
Directory, which they keep con-
‘ tinually updated on a data base.

If you phone them at 436-6802,
they will send you a list of ap-
plicable services. Category
headings are varied, ranging from
oil, plastics and rubber, and card-
board, to building materials, haz-
ardous waste, and paper products,

Using this service, you may be
able to find a company that can
teuse your industrial left-overs,

See Decisive page 22

Our Green Planet

Recipes for a cleaner, healthier —

Water Saving Tip C= D

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nearly one half of the water
that we use dally 15 flushed
down the to:let. The average
folet uses aimost 2 1/2 gal-
fons of water per flush! Here
1S a simple water Saving tip.

Directions

Fill the mason jar with coloured wa-
ter and seal tightly. Place the jar
in the back tank of the collet -
taking Care not temterfere wn
any of the codets working parle.

The yar should displace some

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water and yet leave enough wa-

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food colouring

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clear after tune, replace the jar.

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