NEWSPAPER recycl-
ing may return to North
Vancouver District, if
District council accepts
a staff recommendation
to accept a tender for
the service.

New Life Recycling had
been collecting newspapers
in the District, but stopped
in October when the
company and District
council had a parting of
ways. At that time the
District put out tenders for.
continuation of the paper
pickup.

Council will consider the
four responses to the tender
call at tomorrow's meeting,
but staff has strongly
recommended accepting the
bid of Allnations Airsealand
Recycling, which is actually
offering to pay the District
for the service.

Of the other three
companies responding to the
call for tenders, one is for
free pickup, another wants
payment from the District
for the service, and the last,
New Life, has been put up.
for sale by owner Bruce
Culver and is consequently

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in a state of financial un-
certainty.

Staff urged acceptance of
Allnations’ bid at last week’s
meeting, but Alderman
Mary Segal convinced her
colleagues to wait at least a
week while she consulted
with representatives of
North Vancouver City and
West Vancouver, in hopes of
formulating a North Shore-
wide recycling policy.

Segal, along with a
member from each of the
other councils, was ap-
pointed to a tri-council
committee to look into such
a policy about a month ago.

“This may backfire if it’s
done in a hasty matter and
not thought out,” she warned
her fellow council members.

District Engineer John
Bremner said a speedy
council decision was needed

‘because staff wants to in-

clude newspaper collection

instructions along with the

information about garbage
pickup that is sent out to
District residents in the New
Year.

Allnations is offering to
pay the District $1,800 in the
first year of operation, and
increase that sum annually
until the fourth and fifth
years, when the company

would hand over $3,600
annually to the municipality.

The company carries $1
million liability insurance
and the District will be
covered under that in case of
default, -said Deputy
Engineer Harry McBride in a
report.

Manager Doug Welsh
argued strongly for ac-
ceptance of Alination's bid.
New Life “was strong in
loading papers into the back
of a truck but didn’t have the
contacts these people have,”
he said.

“You've got to have
markets, markets, markets.”

Added Welsh, “I'd ‘just
hate to see us lose this
opportunity to get-our paper
picked up for nothing.”

In a summary of the four
bids, McBride dismissed
International Paper In-
dustries as inexperienced:

The company offered to
collect the paper for free, on
condition the District sell it
three garbage packers to use
for loading the newspaper.

McBride commented: “In
my opinion packers are not
the best vehicles to use for
collecting recyclable
newspaper and: this con-
dition indicates a lack of

Parking changes in W. Van.

MOTORISTS will be given
one week of grace until after
Christmas when police will
start enforcing new parking
regulations outside West
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buildings.

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about waste collection. In
addition, the District is not
in a position to sell three
packers at this time.”

The final bid came from a
Jim Mansfield, who offered
to collect the newspaper in
return for.$200 a tonne from
the District. "McBride . said

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Mansfield supplied: no in-
formation about:-his com-
pany, ‘and was not known to:
District staff.

Mansfield, said McBride,
“does not have aay con-
ception of waste collection
economics or realities and
the tegder is not worthy of
consideration.”

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