aia eure fe . oe ra : Michael Becker _ News Editor _ michacl@nsnews.com NORTH Shore Recycling Program (NSRP) efforts to cut the volume of res idential garbage are being trashed. ~ On April 1 the program began a curbside yaru - trimmings collection service. Prior to April 1 yard. “frimmings were simply collected as waste and incin- | erated. Grass clippings, leaves, plants and flowers and tree or hedge trimmings three inches or less in diameter are now collected weekly to Nov. 30. According to NSRP manager Allen Lynch more than 30% of North Shore waste is organic material. - The service collects untimited amounts of yard “pimmings as ‘tied bundles or in clear plastic bags weighing no mure than 44 pounds (20 kilograms) each. They are delivered to the chipping yard at the North Shore transfer stadon. From there the ma : taken to Fraser Richmond Bio-Cycle where it ~ is unbagged and recycled as compost tor soil prod- uets and fertilizer. » But some: residents are questioning the pro- gram’s requirement of clear and colorless piastic ‘bags for the organic inaterials. - , Wesr Vancouver lent Stan Ward takes issue with the bags. Said Ward in a recent letter to West Vancouver council, “To even encourage the use of any plastic bags, garbage bags, food store bags, is an anathema to the environmental scene.” Complained West Van resident Clemence Dekker ina letter to the News, “Do we have to Off track ‘ CANADIAN National (CN) crews spent most of Monday clearing a 10-car derailment near North Vancouver's Neptune bulk termi- . - nals: No one was injured in the mishap, but a portion of a sound fence separating Low Level Road from the terminal was destroyed. CN. investigators have yet to determine the cause of the accident. : lecycling pian expand: West Van residents are ~ bothered by bags; more paper, plastic accepted wrap up evervthing in plasti Lynch said the bags eventually end up as garbage, but he defends the packaging. “The clear bags are necessary to ensure that the material col- lected is nor contaminsted with garbage or other aen-organic matenals. It also allows the operators of the separate collection vehicles to discern berwcen garbage and yard cimmings.” The North Shore has had a recyeling program in ince 1990. In. 1997 North Vancouver-based International Paper Industries (IPI) collected: @ 7,041 tonnes of newspaper; 1,712 tonnes of glass; 56+:tonnes of metals; @ 97 tonnes of plastic. The transfer station depot received an additional 1,043 tonnes of reevelable materials. The total recy- sling rake for 1997: 10,457 tonn The Riverside transfer station accepted 11,468 tonnes of conimercial and residential yard. trim- mings last year as well. Newsprint goes to the Newstcch Recycling Ltd. de-inking plant in Coquitlam. [t’s processed and resold to B.C. pulp mills which in turn sell the recy- cled newsprint. Clear glass goes to the Ballinco glass processing plant in Seattle to be reborn as new bortles. Colored Wednesday, April 22, 1998 ~ North Shore News - 3 NEWS photo Terry Peters glass is crushed and takes the place of sand for con- struction projects. Metals go to Richmond Steel Recycling Ltd. and MRI in Searde, where they are melted down and reused. ; . Plastics go to Merlin Plastics Supply Inc. on Annacis Island. They are turned into fibre and new containers. Lynch puts the diversion rate, the total material removed from the waste sl and recycled, ar 38%. The province has mandated municipalities to reduce garbage by 30% by the year 2090, Lynch is optimistic about achieving the number. NSRP figures show thar 35,727 tonnes of ” garbage was picked up on the North Shore last year: 7,180 tonnes of garbaye in North Vancouver Ci 19,053 tonnes in North Vancouver District .and 9,494 tonnes in West Vancouver. ~ As of May 1, North Vancouver District’s basic garbage pickup service allows three cans or bags kly per household. In North Vancouver City the limit is two. In West Vancouver, which has eperated with a three-can limit since 1994, the new limit will also be nwo. Garbage and yard trimmings are picked up by municipal employ in North Vancouver City and District. West Vancouver switched to IPI on Apri) 1. Prior to that Canadian Waste Services (formerly known Vancouver contract. On May 1 the r collect all mixed paper products and all plastics: marked with No. 1 and No. 2 recycling sy Sait Launch, “These are exciting new programs and it’s going to get us to 50%,” : News nabs editorial awards as Laidlaw) had the West : ling program will expand to :; NORTH Shore News editorial staff were honored Sarurday night with a pair of awards recognizing excellence in journalism at the 10th Annual B.C. Newspaper Foundation (BCNF) Awards dinner. News reporter Anna Marie D’Angelo took second place in the competition’s Best News Story category with her feature about a shocting in a North Vancouver cinema. Of the entry, the judges said D'Angelo “... displayed initiative and determination in running down. details of this tragic story undec tight deadline pressure.” Meanwhile, News editor Andrew McCredie shared third prize in the Best Special Project or Series category * with Bob Mackin of the Richmond News, Neville Judd of the Vancouver Conricr and Dan Olson of the Cogisitham Now. . The four papers worked together on a four-part serics examining funding in local amateur sports. Judges said the series “provided a unique approach to the topic of sports funding.” A total of $24,000 in honoraria was presented to com- munity and daily newspaper journalists in 21 award cate- gonies at the ceremony, which took place at the Renaiss- ance Vancouver Hotel. . Master of ceremonies at the banquet was three-time ACTRA award winner Vicki Gabercau. A complete list of BCNF winners will be included on the foundation’s Internet site at www.helix.net/bent. The BCNF is Western Canada’s only annual awards program run by and for photographers, reporters and edi- tors. A NEWS reporter Anna Marie - D’Angelo ... news story award. ‘ Heritage house gains ne reprieve Martin Millerchip News Reporter LATE night lamenta- tions were all North Vanceuver District Council could manage Monday over the fate of the Robertson House. As previously reported in the News, council first voted April 6 against 2 public hearing on 3 proposed subdivision at 210 East St. James Rd. The subdivi- sion would have provided the site for the 1912 heritage home, currently located at 361 East. St. James Rd., where it faces: imminent demolition to make way for a larger new house. . pcal opposition to the sub- division convinced the majority of council to abort a planned public:hearing on the issue. The 5-2 votre saw only Mayor Don Bell and Coun. Janice Harris favor public debate on the issue. . Last Tuesday council flip- flopped following an emotional statement from realtor Ker: Carniato, the owner of 2 East St. James, and further lob- bying from heritage preserva- tionists. ; In a 5-1 vote (Coun. Ernie Crist remained. opposed and Coun. Pat Munroe was not at the meeting) council agreed to * reconsider the possibiliry of a public hearing for the subdivi- sion, ; Bur when Monday’s meet- ing came, the opportunity for preservation had gone. . Carniato had withdrawn his offer to sell the lot at cost, con- ditional _ on subdivision ‘approval, to resite ~~ the Robertson House. . “The precedent. for not sa ing this home is going to sit like ‘a blight over this council and _ we are going ‘to “be forever +}: , judged by it,” said Coun. Janice” Harris: oo sd: “We blew it. Council blew * it. It should have gone to a public hearing. We should have been able to have aired all of the issues and it was stopped in its d to, J think, a relatively misinformed, local-.. ized opposition and we went the wrong way.” Council. agreed ‘to host a shirts-sleeves session on her- itage issues with. its volunteer Heritage: .Commission and North Lonsdale residents. NEWS editor Andrew: McCredie ... award for sport funding series. oe