10 - Sunday, March 31, 1991 - North Shore News

A NORTH Vancouver
businessman who believes he has it
conerete solution for the sate
handling of hazardous waste has
run up against a brick wall trving
to interest government regulatory
agencies in his container product.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

Cep-Can Industries Ltd. chief
executive officer Silvio Pellegrini
is considering making his next
marketing move south of the
border.

“I'm thinking about going to
the States. B.C. could show the
way, be a leader. But no, I don’t
have the right connections — 1
don’t know. Here, the government
seems quite satisfied with steel
drums (for hazardous waste
storage and transportation).

“People think we have a big
country, You can just spread it
(waste) arnund, But once you
pollute, you pollute,’* he said.

Over the past 18 months,
Pellegrini has unsuccessfully at-
tempted to secure provincial and

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SILVIO PELLEGRINI with numerous letters he has written to
various levels of government concerning the need for concrete
waste containers.

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federal certification and accep-
tance of the Pellegrini Ecological
Container.

Pellegrini bought the North
American rights to the product
trom his brother Afri Pellegrini,
an tralian engineer who originally
developed the simple system: a
cubic metre concrete block encases
a spherical hotlow core capable of
holding up to 300 litres of waste.
The modular blocks can be in-
terlocked.

According to Silvio Pellegrini,
the Pelegrini Group in Italy has
signed a contract to sell 2,000 of
the containers to a European
pharmaceutical company. A
Scandinavian nuclear company is
looking at the container to trans-
port and store nuclear waste.

While companies contacted by
Pellegrini have no quarrel with the
integrity of the product, the con-
cept was rejected on the grounds
that the permanent disposal of
hazardous wastes in containers is
not an accepted practice in
Canada.

Rather than storing waste, cur-
rent thinking supports treating it

Cameron Warren: Skills to meet challenges of international trade

Cameron Warren is using the knowledge he gained at
the Pacific Marine Training Institute in North
Vancouver to help keep British Columbia competitive
in internaiional trade.

“The shipping and marine operations certificate program at the institute
provided me with the skills and knowledge to embark on a career in the
shipping industry and was instrumental in helping me obtain my present
says Cameron, who now works in the sales department of Greer
shipping Ltd. in Vancouver.

The shipping and marine operations program was introduced to meet the land-
based marine needs of the province's shipping industry.
imports and exports is a major industry and the institute is preparing students
for careers in this challenging field.

Pollution solution hits brick wall

with chemicals or destroying it in
incinerators.

But Pellegcini argues that, “‘un-
fortunately a basic law of physics
— matter is neither created nor
destroyed — does not support this
policy.”’ PeNegrini points out that
incinerator byproduct includes
hazardous residual ash.

A North Vancouver engineering
company noted, ‘‘general review
of the container concept indicates
that it will have very practical ap-
plication in the storage of hazard-
ous waste.”’

Meanwhile, a GVRD_ solid
waste administrator saw no ‘‘near
term need of the container
system.”’

And a provincial environment
ministry special wastes and
emergencies official said there
were problems finding acceptable
storage sites for the containers.

To date Pellegsini has built two
of the containers for testing and
display.

The containers range in cast
from $700 to $2,000.

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