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48 - Sundays. January 28. 1990 - North Shore News

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oe, (CQUR ENVIRONMENT

Consumers still practising wasteful habits

MANY CONSUMERS have been
vocal in calling for environmental-
ly sound products in local stores,

ested,”” said Ted Wrtie, owner of
Super Valu Park Royal.
Wylie sees 16,000 customers per

and retailers are scrambling to “We're finding that everybody week pass tirough his store, but he
meet the demand. But one grocery Jikes to talk ‘environment-friend- says few of them purchase organic
store owner believes that shoppers ly,’ but when it conmies down to produce or the Presideut’s Choice
aren't willing to put their money feeding their family and conve- See Retailers

where their mouth is. nience, not many people are inter- Page 51

ANNOUNCES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DROP-OFF RECYCLING DEPOT

The depot is the City’s inst step in establishing a multumaterai recycling
plogiamine for the North Shore

The Corporation The acceptable recyclables are newspaper. clean metal food and beverage
conta rors, clean plashc mak and soft drink bottles and clean glass bottles
of the and jars

City of North Vancouver —-_THE DEPOT IS LOCATED IN THE UNIT BLOCK OF
BEWICKE AVENUE, SOUTH OF MARINE DRIVE.

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RUSSELL PRECIOUS displays some of the organic produce that Capers
in West Vancouver has become known for. Now, mainsiream food
retailers are also jumping on the environment-friendly bandwayon in
response to consumers’ demands for ‘‘green*’ products.

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Morris leads the way
Oil Spills on our shores? It could happen ...

Morris International Trading Ltd., a North Vancouver company,
designs and manufactures oil pollution equipment. President
David Morris has become a much sought-after man in the past
few years. Countries throughout the world are buying his pro-
ducts to clean up oil spills.

Morris sells his patented curtain type oil boom as well as eight
models of rotating disc oil skimmers. The skimmers remove all
types of. oil which can then be used again,

Recovery rates range from two gallons of diesel to 300 gallons
of crude oil a minute. Many companies are purchasing the equip-
ment because it is portable and has the highest efficiency oil
recovery rate for its size.

+ The M1-30 Oil Skimmer was used to assist in the recent Valdez
| oil spill in Alaska. The Canadian Coast Guard currently owns 40
| skimmers and uses them from the Great Lakes through Eastern

Canada. Morris’ equipment can also be found in Australia, New
Guinea, Cypress, Venezuela and other points throughout the
world.

Morris International Trading Ltd.

1527 Columbia Street 9 86 ? | 89 Rotating disc oil skimmer recovers up
North Vancouver, B.C. = to 106 gallons of crude oil a minute