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NEWS COLUMNIST Trevor Lautens and his dog, Cole, peer in a garbage can asking the question, “If a West Vancouver resident Is allowed only three cans of
garbage, is he, or she, a can or two short of a full load?” Lautens tackles the subject in his column on page 4.

aximum garbage from residents faces fourfold chop

THE GARBAGE coming out
_of West Vancouver must be
cut more than fourfold start-
ing on Jan. 10.

—
“By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

Effective on Monday, West
Vancouver District (WVD) garbage
collectors will pick up a maximum
of three cans cach week from a sin-
gle-family home.

‘The municipality came under
fire last year when it was revealed
that West Vancouver garbage col-
lectors Would nat pick up more than
13 cans a week at a single-family
residence (one cubic metre a week).

West Vancouver operations

ant director Doug Wylie said
according toa West

ass
that,

Vancouver survey, more than 90%
of West Vancouver residemts put
out three cans of garbage or fess
each week,

Said Wylie, “I do expect to get
calls (from the 10%.)"

Wylie said any garbage over the
three-can fimit will not be picked
up.

He said residents consistently
topping the three-can limit have
several options, including:

@ dropping off the extra garbage
themselves (for a fee) at the transfer
station at 30 Riverside Dr. in North
Vancouver;

§ composting organic garbage on
their property;

using the Blue Box system for
recycling glass, cans and newspa-
pers.
fH purchasing a mulching-type

lawnmower that teduces the amount
of grass clippings collected.

tn North Vancouver District
(NVD) and North Vancouver City
(NVC), there is no limit on the
humber of garbage cans residents
can put out for pickup each week.

North Shore Recycling Program
coordinator Al Lynch said he
expects NVD and NVC to iustitute
garbage fimils this year.

“T prefer to see a unified
approach on the North Shore. We
woukl like to see all three munici-
palities enact the same policies.”
said Lynch.

He said he plans to recommend
to NVC and NVD councils this
spring a program of garbage can
limits and pre-purchased tags for
extra cans.

Vancouver City has a three-can

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limit for single-family residential
githage pickup. Residents may pur-
chase tags costing $1.50 cach which
can be attached to every extra
garbage can.

Lynch said the provincial gov-
ermment has required that waste
output be cut by 50% per capita
between $990 and 2000.

Lyach said garbage from resi-
dential and business has been
reduced 20% at the North Shore
transfer station since 1900.

NVC utililics superintendent
Brent Mahood said municipal sur-
veys indicate that NVC residents
average 3 1/2 cans-cach w t
garbage.

assistant director Bob West-Sells
said single-family residential homes
average three cans a week,

Lynch said he expects mere
materials, including mixed paper
and more plastics, to be recycled on
the North Shore after the current
recycling contract expires in
approximately two years.

But among the items that will
likely never be collected curbside is
dog excrement.

West-Sells and Lynch recom-
mended that residents bury doy
excrement in their yards.

Said West-Sells, “You can get
almost a toothpaste tube effect
sometimes... The garbage (truck)
compactor compacts the dog excre-
ment ina plastic bag.

“[Us almost in toothpaste consis-
tency and it comes shooling out and
shoots all over the poor old garbage
collector.”

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