ecycling just a newspaper story

ALL THE news that’s fit to pnnt unfortunately
doesn’t fit into North Vancouver District’s gar-

bage dump and Monday

proved the, point when

council decided to investigate resurrecting the
defunct curbside newspaper pickup program —
but this tme in partnership with North Shore's

other two municipalities.

Following a meeting held
last week by the North Shore

council committee on
recycling. it was decided
that all three districts em-
bark on an investigative

foray to find a company that
would agree to pick up
North Shore residents’
discarded newspapers.

lt was also debated at the
meeting, according to
Mayor Marilyn Bakers in her

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report to council, that aside
from just newspaper pickup
1 would be desirable to also
have collection of materials
such as glass and metal.

But as Baker pointed out,
the committee “recognized”
such pickup practices were
unavatlable “because
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A3 - Wednesday, January 12, 1983 - North Shore News

AND WHILE the
politicians procrastinate
ever how to go about
recycling which both
North Vancouver
councils agree is

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~ essential fo an effective
garbage disposal policy,
Mike MacLean gets on
with the job. He has
been maintaining a

multi-material recycling

service in West Van,
although he is _- still
waiting for a written
contract from council.
This picture shows him
grading bottles
collected for recycling.
MacLean collects
newspapers from North
Van City apartment
buildings and will make
collections in the
District to anyone who

and who contacts him at
984-7534.

stable markets for glass and

metal may jeopardize the
viability of newspaper
pickup if we insisted on

trying everything together.”

Meanwhile. Alderman
John Lakes lashed out and
cntucized the source of the
prodigious used newspaper
problem and urged council
tO approach vanous print
publishers to help defer costs
of mdding the North Shore of
dated newspapers.

Lakes also said if the
newspaper companies fail to

respond, then perhaps
municipal governments
should look at possibly

boosting licence fees for the
companies

Alderman Ernie Crist

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quickly replied that Lakes’ groups of four or more
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