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A LOWER Mainland company
has found a way (o turn North
Shore garbage into a money-
making venture that is also
environmentally friendly,

By Robert Galster

Contributing Writer

Envirowasle Industries special-
izes in composting organic waste
collected ata North Shore transfer

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Company creates high-quality
topsoil from local yard waste

packaged and sold back to the pub-
lic under the name “The Answer
Garden Products,” available at focal
retailers such as Safeway and Save-
On-Foods.

‘Envirowaste president: and
majority shareholder Douglas
Halward points out that his compa-
ny is playing a large part in fulfill-
ing the ecologically conscious man-
dates set out by local governments,

Local mandates state that the
waste stream has to be reduced and

recycled by 259% by 1995 and 50a
by the year 2000.

“The green waste or organic
materials make up at least a third of
the waste stream so it's pretty excit-
ing and people can feel good about
they are doing knowing that they
are contributing to those goals."

The powers that be, on the
Greater Vancouver Regional
District (GVRD) in this case, seem

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station to produce a topsoil that is
gelling rave reviews from local gar-
deners. ;

The garden waste is transported
to an $8 million faciity in
Aldergrove where itis composted
under exact moisture dad tempera-
ture specifications.

The composted material is then

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DOUG HALWARD, president of Consolidated Envirowaste
Industries Inc., spent his youth playing professional hockey
with several NHL clubs including the Canucks. Now, Halward’s
top priority Is topsoil. The soil he holds is no ordinary dirt; It is
soil produced directly from yard waste collected from the
Lower Mainland.

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