8 ~ Friday, February 12, 1993 - North Shore News Council pushes for more lastic, glass recyclin NORTH VANCOUVER District Council is spearheading a move to reduce the amount of plastic and glass that has to be recycled through the present blue box system. It wants the province to ‘expand deposit legislation co include all beverage containers and to. con- sider legislation to encourage more refillable containers. Such a move would add not on- ly wine and liquor bott/es to the “‘money-back’’ system, but also all juice and milk containers. North Shore Recycling Coor- dinator Al Lynch says such: a move, coupled with increasingly high levies for disposables . and non-refillables, would encourage a move toward standardization of containers and continued ex- perimentation with various types of refillable plastics. Environment Canada estimates that approximately 13%. of the country’s 30 million tonnes of an- nual waste is made up of non- reusable beverage containers. . Tom Smith, president of the : Brewery, Winery and Distillery Workers Union Local 300, says that the cost of ‘‘managing'’ this segment of the waste stream alone was $126 million in 1992. . The district motion, proposed By Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer by Coun. Ernie Crist and unani- mously endorsed by council Mon- day night, also recommends the establishment of conveniently located ‘‘enviro-centres’’ that would be funded and operated by industry but administered by the province. These depots would reduce the collection and sorting costs of the present ‘“return-to-retail-for-ref- und”’ system. Lynch says an expanded deposit system would not mean the end af municipal recycling programs because. glass, plastic and metal containers make up only 24% of the total material collected and any extra space on the recycling vehicles could then handle mixed paper. Recycling presently generates comparatively little revenue on the North Shore or in B.C, Lynch says it is not cost effec- tive to separate aluminum man- District targets scavengers STAY blue boxes: That is the message North Van- couver District Council wants to convey to the few people scaveng- ing along district curbsides on blue box: collection days for beer and pop containers. And to back up its point coun- cil is amending its Waste Removal Bylaw to make such scavenging a ticketing offence with a fine of $50. West Vancouver District already has such a bylaw but North Van- couver City does not. Coun. Janice Harris labelled the move ‘draconian’? and asked council to reconsider, \ OUT of. the “To ticket them is awfully Big Brother, and { for one ain not go- ing to support that. It’s not same- thing Big Sisters do,’ said Harris. But Coun. Joan Gadsby pointed out that the district's contract with International Paper In- dustries Ltd. for waste collection has to be protected and that con- tainers taken from the blue box system mean less revenue for the district. Harris later told: the News she found it ironic that at a meeting in which council initiated several moves to reduce the amount of glass and plastic beverage con- tainers in its waste stream it would also choose to penalize people for doing exactly the same thing. | IT’S RRSP TIME! INVESTMENT SEMINAR IN YOUR BANK’S RRSP? Nancy Farran & Kathy Sager of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc. ‘and Bob Costigan, Vice: President of Fidelity Investments Canada INVITE YOU TO JOIN US FOR A BREAKFAST SEMINAR “HOW TO MAKE YOUR RRSP PERFORM BETTER” An. Overview of the Best Places to Invest in 1993 and Beyond Date: Saturday, February 20, 1993 Time: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Place: Park Royal Hotel 540 Clyde Ave., W.Van. There is no charge for the seminar, but seating is limited. 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