New recycled products
easier on environment

INCREASINGLY, PROFESSION-

AL. builders are using environmen:
tally responsible buitding tech-
niques, materials and products to
lessen the environmental impact of
our homes and how we live in
them.

There js no better time to find
out about the choices available than
with Home Odyssey ‘94 at the 1994
Spring B.C. Home and Garden
Show,

Home Odyssey ‘94. a building
products showcase initiated by the
Greater Vancouver Home Builders’
Association, offers a loak at the
homes of tomorrow.

The ideas and products on dis-
play in this home ecotopia will have
a profound influence on the way we
build and tive in the future.

Your tour begins with the sur-
face you are walking on, courtesy
of Stone Dimensions. | 1,000 tradi-
tional red bricks.

Disposal of used car and truck
tires is a continent-wide environ-
mental problem in North America.
The noxious emissions from fire is
aconstant threat when these tires
are left in growing piles in dumps
and serap yards.

The space that scrap tires take
up in land fills only exacerbates an
already existing waste problem.
fnnovative Waste Technologies Inc.
(IWT) believes the tires are better
used creating new products that
have mass consumer appeal —- such
as Rubberloc, the new rubber
paving brick.

Rubberloc provides a safer
paved surface, Due to the energy
absorbing properties and less abra-

sive surface of the product. injuries
from falls are likely to be less trau-
matic, glassware is more likely lo
bounce than break, and i's easier
on the feet and legs for walking ind
standing,

Rubberloc pavers offer an inno-

yative solution to the dilemma of

used tire disposal,

In fact, 10 give you an indication
of the impact IWT has on the prob-
lem, a car lite is one passenger tire
equivalent (PTE). Approximately
2.6 million PTEs of scrap tires are
generated in B.C. each year,

This year IWT expects to con-
sume approximately 800,000 PTEs
in paving brick production, over
and above the additional {.2 million
PTEs it consumes in the processing
of tires into crumb rubber and its
sale to other manufacturers.

All told. they will use close to
two million tires this year.

Another company actively
involved in the consumption of
stubborn recyclables is Eco
Superwood BC Limited.

Superwood lumber is the result
of new and innovative plastic extru-
sion technology.

The process combines waste
plastics from residential blue box
collection programs and industrial
sources to produce strong, durable
lumber that can be sawed, drilled,
nailed and treated like any real
wood but won't rot or fade.

Less thin 5% of the plastics pro-
duced in North America are recy-
eled. Plastics come in so many
combinations that they are difficult
to use unless they ure separated,
which can be expensive.

Come in today! §

HELD OVER!
2 WEEKS |
ONLY!

FOVER

HANGING FIXTURZ
* verdi green finish

FUATURE

«clear Lucite

© 24x 21"H ny * available in many
Ag sizes
SALE, ©15" x32" H

«12x 40 bulbs

WILMARASDURG
DINING FIXTURE

BEVELLED GLASS
DINING FIXTURE

Ddowntgnt $ a9"
“i6'w SALE

TIFFANY LAMP

great selection
© 20” x 10°H

FROM Tl 99”

TIFFANY TABLE LAM?

* great setection

non OA"

OGUTBCOR
WALL FIXTURE
* opaque glass
* verdi green finished
*2 x 60w bulbs

: rarwt2"n § 6
SALE

(just over 2nd Narrows Bridge)
*comer of Hastings & Nanaimo
turn right at Hastings

They are either incinerated or
sent to landfill sites where they
account for 30% of the total waste
and resist decomposition,

The Superwood system of recy.
cling js unique in its resistanee to
contamination. Taecepts most plas-
fics and mixes them together, s0 No
costly separation process is neces-
sury.

“Plastic recycling alleviates
some of the demand for natural gis
and oil, the raw materials of virgin
plasties, dust one Superwood
machine recycling 1.000 tons of
plastic a year could save 16,500
barrels of oi.” says Dave Hutchison
of Enviranment Canada.

Superwood will outlast pressure-
reated lumber and does not contain
any of the toxic preservatives such
as arsenic and copper sulphate that
can leach into waterways.

With increasing lumber prices
and the environmental concerns
over the cutting of foresis, the need
for materials for extreme conditions
makes Superwood the natural alter-
Native to treated wood.

LOCAL DOWN
QUILTS
at betler pices than
Imported Down.

TWIN
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} TUB MAT a5 6.25
q BATH SHEET 29-6618,95

F Full Range of Colourall!

$2397

{2 PILLOWS)

White Velour Robes

(come try one on,
we won't "swagchh

COMPLETE

BATHROOM
Accassories just
artived.

SALE ENDS
Feb. 27th

BRITISH COLUMBIA
BURNABY - 432-1191
ALDERGROVE - 856-6660
CLEARBROOK - 852-4900
CHILLIWACK - 858-5118
COQUITLAM - 464-9136
COURTENAY/COMOX - 338.4944
KAMLOOPS - 374-6737
KELOWNA - 860-6699
KERRISDALE/OAKRIOGE 261-9592
LADNER/TSAWWASSEN - 948-0417
LADYSMITHICHEMAINUS - 735-7759
LANGLEY /CLOVERDALE - 533-5288
MAPLE RIDGE - 463-1281
NANAIMO - 753-7877
NEW WESTMINSTER - 540-8055
NORTH DELTA - 590-1677
NORTH VANCOUVER + 984-4407
PORT ALBERNI - 732-5777
PARKSVILLE/QUALICUM - 248-2231
RICHMOND - 273-4417
SURREY/GUILOFORD - $84-7121
VANCOUVER/WESTSIDE - 736-8541
VICTORIA - 389-129
WEST VANCOUVER - 925-3655
WHITE ROCK/SOUTH SURREY - 36-5598

CALGARY, ALBERTA
Crowchild - 286-3295
Westhills - 240-0111
Willow Park - 271-3770

EDMONTON, ALBERTA

Maytield Common - 444-0429
South Park - 436-6370

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