20 - Friday, September 20, 1991 ~ North Shore News

Here’s

chance

to air views
on waste
management

AS A person who answers your phone calls and receives
your mail, I know that North Shore News readers are

People With Vision.

You don’t always like the way
things are done on the en-
vironmental front, and you often
have ideas for systems you think
would work much better than
those currently in place.

Or sometimes you want to see
some action in areas that have to
date been largely ignored. Well,
now's your chance to funnel your
ideas to the GVRD_ decision-
makers.

The Greater Vancouver
Regional District is revamping its
Solid Waste Plan in order to come
up with a document showing how
the region plans to reduce its
waste by 50% by the year 2000.

The goal has been set for the
whole province; it is ambitious,
but very necessary.

The GVRD’s Planning Project
Team for the Solid Waste Plan-
ning Project is collecting public
input on all facets of waste reduc-
tion and management. It is inter-
ested in any ideas that would help
the region meet its 50% reduction
mandate.

The North Shore meeting is be-
ing held on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at
Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East
22nd St. in North Van, at 7 p.m.

At the meeting, the project
tean: wil! hear input from indi-
viduals, who can opt for an in-
formal presentation or submit a
formal brief.

There will also be short talks
given by loca! resource people,
which will serve to give the public
a brief overview on current waste
management strategies.

The public’s input will be
documented in a ‘‘Stage 1°
report, which will lay out the op-
tions for study in Stage 2. This
report, which must be approved
by the province before it advances
to Stage 2, is expected to be
finished very early next year.

Stage 2, the evaluation of op-
tions, will probably take a year,
and be followed by Stage 3 — the
creation, review, acceptance and
implementation of the final plan.

“We need everybody's help,”
said a representative from the
planning project team. ‘‘People
should be clear that there is plenty
of room for their input.’’

Currently, two million tonnes of
waste are generated within our
regional district, contposed of
650,000 tonnes from the residen-
tial sphere, 750,000 tonnes from
the ICI (industrial, commercial,
institutional) population, and
600,000 tonnes generated as a
result of landclearing, demolition
and coustruction activities.

About 18% of our waste is cur-
rently being recycled. If our waste
isn’t reduced more substantially,
the GVRD says our landfills and
incinerators will reach capacity by
1994.

Peggy
Trendell-Whittaker

ECOINFO

GVRD committees have already
brainstormed a number of op-
tions, which fali into several
themes. To give you something to
get your thoughts flowing, I’ve
listed some of the categories, with
a few examples from each.
© Education/Information Options:

a multi-cultural continuous
education program for both adults
and school children, which fosters
at-source reduction through smart
shopping, use of refiliables, ren-
ting, repairing and donating items
for re-sale;

the establishment of an ICI
waste reduction office to serve a
coordinating, educating and in-
formation role;

promotion of the exchange of
demolition and construction
wastes by establishing an exchange
database and a waste exchange.
© Collection, Processing and
Marketing Options:

the establishment of
neighborhood composting facili-
ties, including shredders;

ability for small hazardous
waste generators to deposit these
wastes at local depots when these
are established;

specific scheduled pick-up of
demolition/construction waste
from residences and ICI sector
establishments.
¢ Financial/Legislative Options

pressure for a green tax on
non-recyclables, with revenues
returned to local governments for
use in supporting recycling;

legislation to require the manu-
facturer 0 be respensible for the
end use of products, including
these that are hazardous;

encouragement of the proactive
reuse of viable old structures
rather than demolishing them.

These and many other sugges-
tions are contained in the Solid
Waste Management Planning Fro-
ject September '91 update. For a
copy, or other information, call
the planning project at 433-0137.

Heritage estate walking
tour date correction

ONE OF the North Vancouver
heritage event dates listed in last
Friday’s paper was incorrect.

The Hamersley Estate walking
tour was held fast Saturday, not
Sunday. The News regrets the er-
ror.

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