12 ~- Friday, August 24, 1990 — North Shore News Blue box program starts next week North Shove recycling campaign most comprehensive in Lower Mainland ENTHUSIASM IS running high in the offices of the North Shore Recycling Program (NSRP) as cast members and stagehands scramble to have everything ready for the rising of the curtain on the Blue Box program. A dress rehearsal has been under way for some weeks now — the multi-family recycling cam- paign, unique throughout the GVRD, has been tested in repre- sentative complexes across the North Shore and has received fa- vorable reviews. Advance publicity has been ex- cellent — ‘‘director’’ Al Lynch, coordinator of the NSRP. has been interviewed on several radio talk shows, the hosts of which all want to know why the North Shore program is billing itself as on its way to becoming the most effective program in the Lower Mainland. Why, indeed? Well, according to Lynch, there are two reasons — one is that, currently, we are the only area in the GVRD to incor- porate multi-family complexes in our multi-material pick-up. The other reason is more im- portant: the goal of the program, **to become the most successful and envied program in the pro- vince,’’ will come about because of the commitment and en- thusiasm of North Shore residents. Obviously, audience members will in fact be playing the lead role when the curtain rises on this production. And that's due to happen next week; on Tuesday, Aug. 28, when the first blue boxes will be delivered to a slate of single-family North Shore homes. By the end of September, all single-family homes should have received their 12-gallon blue box and a brochure outlining the pro- gram. In October, multi-family complexes will receive their cen- tral, 96-gallon blue carts which will most often be located near ex- isting waste facilities. Apartment residents will also receive a pam- phlet explaining the multi-family recycling system. I suspect the North Shore pro- gram will also be successful because its organizers are deter- CRIME ALERT From page 10 camera and jewelry. THEFT FROM VEHICLES West 3rd St. and Semisch. Stolen: hubcaps from 1986 VW. Semisch Ave. Stolen: changer. Jones Ave. and W. ist St. Stolen: Hilti drill and bits. 100-bIk. W. 19th St. Stolen: four tires and wheels. 600-bik. E. Hlth St. Stolen: roof rack, windsurfer rack, MST holders. 1000-bik. Tatlow Ave. Stolen: flashlight and hunting knife. 500-biIk. W. 28th St. Stolen: licence plate. 1900-bik. Richmond, ameter lights and bar. WEST VANCOUVER Break and enter — 1[400-blk. Bellevue. Entry: main door pried. Stolen: cash, Vaiue: $50. Break and enter — 500-bik. 17th St. Entry: rear door forced with screwdriver, door jammed open with paper. Stolen: cash. Value: $50. Break and enter — 500-bIk. 17th St. Entry: mechanical room door forced open. Stolen: master key and six suite keys. Value: $30. heat ex- Stolen: di- Break and enter — 500-bIk. Clyde. Entry: open window. Stolen: briefcase with contents and calculator. Value: $669. Break and enter — 1400-blk. Bellevue. Entry: attempted entry, back door found unlocked. Stolen: nil. mined not only to encourage recycling but to promote obser- vance of the other two Rs — reducing and reusing. They are emphatic that recycl- ing is the last resort, to be utilized only after reducing our dependence on throw-away mate- rials and after reusing materials that make their way into our homes and offices. For those of you who can’t wait Peggy Trendell-Whittaker ECOINFO to read about it in your soon-to- be-delivered recycling brochure, here’s a quick run-through of how the program will work. Newspapers, inserts and flyers will still be put in your blue bag and placed on the curb on garbage days. Into your blue box will go plastic pop bottles and milk jugs, glass bottles and jars, and tin and aluminum cans, prepared in the following manner: Plastic jugs — no other plastics allowed — should be rinsed, have their caps removed and be flatten- ed as best as possible. Glass bottles, both clear and colored, should be rinsed and have their lids and neck rings removed. \ Food and beverage cans, both tin and aluminum, should be rins- ed, have their labels removed and both ends taken off if possible, and flattened with the lids inserted inside the cans. Now the next step is the tough part that will really separate the committed environmentalist wheat from the pseudo-green chaff: put your blue box out only when it is full. Sounds easy, you say? Well, apparently, this simple request is proving a stumbling block across the water in the great metropolis. Peer pressure being what it is, people are scared not to put their blue box out each and every col- lection day because they are wor- tied the Joneses will accuse them of not recycling. AS a resuli. the recycling pick- up trucks lumber to a halt at each driveway and disgorge crews of recycling workers all for the sake of two tin cans and a pop bottle or two. The cumulative effect is that the whole system is slowed down and it’s been made impossi- ble to service the whole city on schedule. So there you are. Out to the curb when your box is full, please, despite any suspicions that neighbors are monitoring your environmental awareness from behind their living room drapes. It’s also been requested that those residents who have been hoarding recyclables not over- whelm the pick-up crew with six months’ worth of cans and bot- tles. If you do have quite a collec- tion, please limit yourself to set- ting out one full blue box per week until you've gotten rid of it all. Once your recyclables have been picked up by International Paper Industry trucks, they are baled and shipped to buyers in different provinces and countries. Here, ac- cording to a NSRP press release, is where our stuff ends up: Newspapers are sent to Oregon state and Pacific Rim countries where they are re-pulped to make new paper products. Glass is sent to Consumers’ “| need some insurance.” North Vancouver 101 — 1112 Lonsdale 986-4321 GG i'm Mike O'Connor and ! can help you with that. So can other insurance agencies, but at NorCu we can offer you something different — we're affiliated with North Shore Credit Union. That means we have a high standard of customer service. It also means we're going to be here for the long term, serving you with property insurance, life insurance, auto insurance and more. Speaking of auto insurance. that's another Glass in Lavington, B.C., and Seattle, Washington, where it is melted and reformed into new jars and bottles. Tin cans go to a de-tinning plant in Washington state where tin is removed from the steel can and both materials are melted and reused. Aluminum cans also go to Washington as well as Alcan in Ontario, where they are melted to form new cans and other alumi- 8: Call it what you want — Goody's Cleaners has come upon the North Vancouver scene of dry cleaning with a change that seers to be acceptable to the consumer. It’s a copy of a concept that started at Cache Cleaners in Denver and Clean & Press in Phoenix. These operators charge only one price per item for everything. Goody’s Cteaners is 3 prices only and takes away the confusion of what your clean- ing will cost betore you enter the door. The prices are much lower than your average cleaner but the catch is payment in advance. Kind of a MacDonaldizing of dry cleaning. Most customers favor the idea. It's like buy- ing a bargain air fare. The catch is payment in advance to obtain the lower price. Shirts are 99¢ with dry cleaning. most other items are $1.99 and the highest price tor a few items are $3.99 (or $4.99 at some high rent locations). There ate other things to note. No sewing machine on the premises thus no repairs or alterations. No leathers or suedes. No sleeping bags or heavy items like drapes. These are left to the “boutique” or num products. Plastic is shipped to Pacific Rim countries and the U.S., where it is melted and reformed into a limited number of low-grade plastic products (note that they cannot be made back into plastic milk jugs, one reason why the reduction of plastic use is so much more preferable to the recycling of plastic). For further information about the NSRP, call 984-9730. M : PARK & TILFORD LOCATION full service plants The whole idea is volume cleaning with sophisticated equipment that is computerized to cycle goods according to fabric, colors or size of load. One prime factor is that the cleaning machine is designed around the environment and manufactured in West Germany where the environment regulations are the most stringent world-wide. It is fett that customers will appreciate the design and prime purpose of using this equipment and are welcome to view the equipment upon request. The quali- ty of cleaning is also amazing and has im- pressed operators world-wide. If you're con- scious of dry cleaning costs you'll be happy to know of the location in North Vancouver at the Park & Tilford Centre and another in Vancouver at 1247 Davie Street. (There are others throughout Western Cana‘ta). These stores are franchised and invest- ment details are available by calling 988-8814 or writing to Goody's Cleaners Franchises Inc., 1906 Lonsdale Avenue, North Van- couver, BC. V7M 2K1. PS. They are an all-Canadian company. 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