41 - Sunday, July 14, 1985 - North Shore News

RECYCLING hasn’t been a wasted effort for the

. , a division of Mohawk Oil,
Fifth Seymour Scouts or Mohawk Lubricants ;

for its continuing efforts in

Ltd. recycling used oil.
Ls Recently both North Wotton as Scoutmaster
— Shore organizations were DIANE BENTLEY has spent the last 12 years
aa awarded by the Greater recycling old newspaper to

Seymour Scouts, accepted a_ raise money for Scout activi-

Vancouver Regional District

(GVRD) for their recycling
achievements.

Scoutmaster Tom Wotton,
representing the Fifth

certificate of appreciation
for the scouts’ work as a
non-profit organization.

The industrial award went
to Mohawk Lubricants Ltd.,

UP TO THEIR necks in newpapers are Scoutmaster Tom
Wotton and scouts Glenn Borgenstrom, 12, in rear, and
Michael Eastwood, 13. The three are members of the Sth
Seymour scout pack and have been raising money by recycl-
ing old newspapers. The scouts are going to Guelph to the
6th Canadian Jamboree with the trip partly paid for through

recycling.

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ties and equipment. The idea
came about as a way to raise
money for a trek on the
Chilkoot Trail in Alaska.
‘We did the three week

journey solely on funds from
recycled mewspapers,’* said
Wotton, ‘‘Collecting seven
days a week, we raised
enough to finance the whofe
trip.”

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through recycling subsidies,
Wotton and nine Boy Scouts
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Wotton collects more than
four tons of old newspapers
each month and at its peak,
he said, the troop was‘ doing
15 tons a month.

Frank McGovern, used oil
collection service manager of
Mohawk Lubricants,
estimated that 70 per cent of
the oil B.C. produces could
be recycled five times over.
And sees recycling waste oil
as economically viable
means of reducing the
amount of oil being im-
ported into the province.

McGovern said the recycl-
ed base oil is ‘equal if not
better than virgin crude.”

Both men believe the
public could be doing more
about environmental waste
and recycling.

“We are a_ throw-away
society,’’ claims Wotton.

“When you go to a coun-

try like Sweden where they
recycle 65 per cent of their
paper products to our 15
(per cent), you can see that
we’ve got a long ways to
go.”
_ Education is an important
means of imparting the en-
vironmental message. And
it’s an ‘‘on-going process’’
for Mohawk Lubricants,
which has conducted semi-
nars on the subject at many
Lower Mainland schools,
including UBC and SFU.

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‘We live in a beautiful
province but if we keep
pouring oil down your
backyards, into our lakes
and in our sewerage systems,
we won't have a beautiful
province for much longer,”’
McGovern warned.

“We are not just thinking

of the past or present,’’ he
said, ‘‘we are thinking of
tomorrow.”
GVRD spokesperson Maria
Marino said Mohawk Lubri-
cants won the industrial
award hands down for
“devising a system of re-
refining oil and avoiding the
consequences of having it
dumped.”” .

At one time Mohawk was
a ‘mom and pop business’’.
But now McGovern says,
collecting and recycling used
oil is done with the latest
state of the art technology at
the new North Vancouver
plant.

Only three plants in the
world, including Mohawk’s
plant at 130 Forester, do
this. Shell in Toronto and
the Greek government are
also in the used oi] recycling
business.

Scouts have always been
environmentalists, said Wot-
ton, and they've been good

recyclers since the Second |

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