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Time to get your household
ready for curbside recycling

AUTUMN JIS the time I get the urge to do my spring
cleaning. This sensation being somewhat foreign to me, I
try to make the best of it and to that end have taken a
holiday from work — paid work, that is — using my week
off to wade through mountains of laundry and generally

create order out of chaos.

With your blue box either on
your doorstep or on its way,
perhaps now is a good time to
take a look around your home
and ‘‘ecologize”’ it fur winter.

What are all the green projects
you’ve been meaning to do but
have been putting off? Do you
have that brick in your toilet tank
yet? Have you mace room for
your blue box and space for other
recyclables, in a location that’s
convenient for all your family
members?

This column is devoted to a
miscellany of information that
may serve to motivate you into
tackling some environmental tasks
around the home.

Have you been putting off
composting because you’re con-
fused about the different options
available? Be confused no more
— the Stili Creek Compost
Demonstration Garden is officially
open to the public this Sunday,

noon to 4 p.m. and showcases
working models of 10 different
focally manufactured compost
boxes, all rodent roof.

Worm composting is one of the
systems on display, which may be
of special interest for those of us
with no yard to cal! our own. The
demonstration garden is located at
4856 Still Creek Ave., just off
Douglas in Burnaby. It will re-
main open to October (or later,
depending on public interest),
Wednesday to Sunday, from /0
a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Don’t throw out your leftover
traces of paint, pesticides, pool!
cleaners or other hazardous
wastes.

The GVRD will be holding a
hazardous waste drop-off on the
North Shore, probably on the last
weekend in October.

Do you have any tires that you
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ber Products grinds them down
into crumb rubber, which is used
to manufacture rubber-pased pro-
ducts such as carpet underlay and
footware.

The company picks up discard-
ed tires from many of the North
Shore tire dealers, or you can
drop them off at Western Rubber,
400 Ewen Ave. in Queensborough.
Call them at 524-5263.

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Sit down with a good cookbook
and plan some special vegetarian
meals for the family this fall. Try
to kick the meat habit at least one
day per week, and gradually
decrease your consumption from
there.

John Robbins’ book, Diet for a
New America, describes in sober-
ing detail the reasons a meat-
based diet isn’t healthy for indi-
viduals, the planet and certainly
not for the animals produced to
feed our addiction.

His views, already very well
documented, are given further
support by the recently released
results of the Cornell-China-Ox-
ford Project on Nutrition, Health
aud the Environment, an interna-
tional, large-scale, long-term study
of 6,500 Chinese people and their

Peggy
Trendell-Whittaker

ECOINFO

dietary habits.

The findings (er.capsulated in
this month's East West magazine)
prompted principal investigator,
Colin Campbell! of Cornell Uni-
versity, to say ‘‘We must come to
realize that we're basically a
vegetarian species.’"

Yes, contrary to myth, it is not
“‘natural’’ for humans to eaf
meat.

Given the length of our
digestive tract, the way in which
we process nutrients and other
factors, we are much better
equipped to live without animal -
products. Vegetarians are, in fact,
much less likely to suffer from
such diseases as cancer and
osteoporosis than their meat-
eating counterparts.

Don’t worry that you won’t get

enough variety in your diet. Once
you learn to approach cooking
from a vegetarian angle, you'll,
find there’s a lot more to look
forward to than just salad bars.

After all, consider the huge ar-
ray of plant life on this planet —
then compare that with the three
or four animals we usually find on
our plates. If anyone's stuck in a
rut, it’s the carnivores among us.

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If you're restocking your
bathroom cabinets, remember to
look for cosmetics, deodorants
and shampoos that are minimally
packaged, biodegradable and not
tested on animals.

Shop in health food stores, the
Body Shop or Soapberry Shop, or
write the Vancouver Humane
Society (P.O. Box 35421, Van-
couver, V6M 4G8) for their
Cruelty-Free Shoppers’ Guide.

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For ongoing support in living a
green lifestyle, join the Worldwide
Home Environmentalists’ Network
(WHEN). Based in West Van-
couver, it has over 2,000 members
who keep informed of en-
vironmental tips and events
through an action-packed newslet-
ter.

WHEN’'s next open meeting is
Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
at the West Van YMCA at 1735
inglewood. For more information
about the organization — or to
donate much-needed office
equipment or volunteer time! —
call 926-5079 or write 1910-27th
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