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Burning can help
the environment

Dear Editor:

When driving on Marine Drive
in West Vancouver last month I
was appalled at the rows of piastic
garbage bags lined up waiting for
collection. I stopped at one house
and counted them — 36 black
plastic garbage bags of garden
clippings!

In West Vancouver the bylaw
allows eight bags a week — a
potential of approximately 120,000
bags a week to be dumped on
someone else’s doorstep — Cache
Creek or the Burns Bog which al-
ready pumps between two and
three million litres of leachate into
local waters. Yes, some chips anc
clippings do contribute to the gar-
bage dump leachates. And how
about the plastic bags?

So 1 paid my !5 bucks for a
permi!, got out my blower and
burned up the equivalent of about
a hundred bags of clippings and
windfalls in five hours, This was a
dry, very hot, forced air induced
fire with very little smoke and with
a practically nil effect on the en-
vironment and at no cost to any-
one else. Two of my neighbors
came by and congratulated me on
my clean fire.

I am a staunch supporter of
recycling, composting and con-
trolled burning. The partial solu-
tion is maybe too simple. Change
the bylaw to one bag a week.
That’s all we burners need and
sometimes less. We are pro en-
vironment and anti pollution.

I ask that in the name of fair
play you give some space and
thought to the garbage problem.
Place the responsibility on the in-
dividual and not on our
municipalities.

The North Shore is a major con-
tributor to the Lower Mainland
garbage problem. Let’s get
together and set an example for
others to foliow.

J3.G. Humphries
West Vancouver

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