Dear Editor:

TE have to agree 100% with Mr. David Bolt, with regards to the new “Garbage collection reg- ulations” (Feb. 23 letter to the editor).

It’s absurd to ram this decision down our throats.

I phoned the recycling depot and the lady there informed me that the district did not con- sult with them, with regards to recycling codes ete.

A gentleman at the district told me that pvo of the many reasons for che changes are:

@ the weight of the garbage cans has to comply with Workers Compensation Board regulations; Mi they will mean fewer injuries on the job.

I explained to him that our 11-year-old daughter brings the garbage out to the road as one of her chores and as a means to earn spend- ing money.

His response was that she will get more exer- cise having to use garbage cans without wheels. If a child can handle the current garbage cans, why can’t full-grown adult males?

. He told me that the big garbage cans that are acceptable are available for purchase at district hall for $134.

How convenient that they are only available .

through them and not sold in stores. On top of this, it is a rwo- to three-week wait to have them delivered to your home.

The district should offer a reduction in price when you bring in your current garbage contain- ers that are no longer acceptable.

——MAIL Box Upset by trash rules Can new district edict

garbage men would gladly pick them up for you. T asked, well where would they go?

He told me they went to the dump!

Now, there are environmentally conscious people for you. All the unacceptable garbage containers are headed for the dump.

A neighbour informed me that the garbage men get paid for an eight-hour day no matter how long it takes them to get through their route.

The former garbage man that 1 spoke with told me that this new regulation is driven by WCB. Makes you wonder!

Recycling pick up is not offered in our com- munity in North Vancouver.

We purchased many Rubbermaid containers to assist us with sorting our recyclables. We make a trip to the depot on our own.

The gendemen at the district could not believe that we don’t have recycling pick up ser- vice in our community. They want us to recycle but the district, WCB and the bigger companies are making it difficult.

Did you know, for example, that the 1.5L Heinz Ketchup bottles have a code that is not accepted at the recycling depot? :

T have been communicating with Heinz for almost three years on this matter and to date have made no progress with them.

They are not concerned that their bottles are not recyclable in the District of North Vancouver, B.C,

I hope many more people voice their con-

A recycling depot spokesman told me that s, they don’t recycle garbage cans. . i. ' E told this to the gentleman and he said the

Adults need to lead by example

Dear Editor: Re: A message to youth: - Grow up (Russ Shelton letter ; to Feb. 18 North Shore ' News). : ; _ A message to adults: light- svenupt’ woe of After. readiiig ‘the above- . mentioned article I was com- ,. pelled to respond. 1am a 17- ear-old Grade 12 student. 1 hold: down a part-time -job, ‘commit 2%. hours, three days “a, week'to be part of my . schools’. rugby team, and ‘manage to maintain an 80% B caverage. . : : Although. Mr. - Shelton seems to believe that | “owe .the world something” I am left. wondering why he does “pot. nos . “In. order to keep my ides up, on top of the six jours a day I attend school, I erage two hours or more of omework every night. like “most students. This makes my

verage work day, not includ- .

-ing- sports or my part-time job, the usual cight-hour work day of any adult. As any

,student works eight hours a

“ day, five days a week, why do

- they owe the world any more

> than an adult?

Youths whe do hold down part-time job or volunteer in. their, community, as Mr.

“ Shelton suggested, work even more hours in a week than

the average adult. In the past Ihave contributed many hours volunteering, but it is

‘very hard to'do this on top of . . tat : youth as the individuals that

school work.’

I'am ‘sure. Mr. Shelton

would also find it hard to vol- unteer his time on top. of his job and his family responsibil- ‘ties. es : <2 Every.. person, regardless of age, must work “so that no one, will beat war, or live in ‘poverty. or be sick. or lonely gain” —- mot just youth. -

~ Adolescents. tend, to. learn _ hw,

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by example.

I am sure that most adults complain about the way in which tax dollars are spent and all have their own opin- ions as to where the moncy should really go. ;

Why would this be any dif- ferent in teenagers? When they whine about the govern- ment not spending money on recreation facilities, is it really that surprising?

It is time for adults iike Mr. Shelton to stop preaching, about how much teenagers owe the world and start con- tributing themselves.

After all, my generation is the one that will have to pay all the national debt his baby- boomer generation has accu- mulated. .

’ The income tax that my generation must pay will in turn fund Mr. Shelton’s old age pension, health care and more.

We will be the doctors that keep you healthy, the police and firemen who protect you, the political leaders who decide how much money you seniors get, the scientists who find out how to cure your diseases, the backbone that your generation will come to rely on.

Although I have. been taught to respect my elders, I have also been taught that respect is something one earns. : . At-is, time for adults like Mr. Shelton to start viewing

they are. .

Te is. time that adolescents were given the respect that they have earned. Adults will then gain our respect.

Mr, Shelton, I challenge you to start leading by exam- ple instead of telling youth what is wrong with them. Emily Craig North Vancouver

cerns over this ridiculous new regulation. Mrs. 1. Martin North Vancouver

Dear Editor:

I am writing in full agreement with your reader David Bolt (Feb, 23 News — New trash-can edict is garbage).

When we collected our cans after the last pickup, we found a pink tag attached to our 121-litre can advising us that our can was no longer conforming as of Jan. 1, 2000.

1 don’t understand this since the can was not even full and certainly not heavy con- taining mostly food packaging and tissues. Since the advent of recycling we seldom fill one can, let alone the nvo we own.

When I phoned the district to find out more, I was

Dumped

Dear Editor:

I enclose a photo I took this month on Welch Street just cast of Lions Gate Bridge. I hope that you will publish this photo, and ask our citizens please not to pol- lute the woods with old tele- vision sets.

We have a garbage pick up and a transfer station in

Health matters

Dear Editor:

News columnist [lana Mercer draws an interesting comparison between the laud- able private South African health-care system and the “behemoth ... Soviet-style uni- versal indifference” of public health care here in Canada (Feb. 18 Fair Comment).

As she rushed through Cape Town with her sick daughter, I wonder if it occurred to her that she must have passed many

-other mothers whose love for

their own children is no less, yet if faced with a similar crisis would be greeted with South African style “indifference,” simply because such good health care would be beyond

Survey questions

Dear Editor:

The (McCreary Centre Society) Adolescent Health Survey (Feb. 25 News) was conducted in 1998 — why is it being done again only two years later? ~ ot

What benefit is there in asking students about issucs that are largely beyond their comprehension and that, in any case, are the responsibil- ity of parents to teach.

Teachers are increasingly being asked to take on tasks that belong to parents.

Students’ time should not be wasted on such exer- cises, when we know that universities are complaining of a high rate of illiteracy

among graduates applying

for entry.

Let schools teach what they are supposed to teach and parents teach what is their responsibility and right to teach in accordance with

-their own moral values.

Jessica. White

‘West Vancouver

their economic reach. Is this the system she recommends we adopt here in Canada?

Ken Palfrey

North Vancouver

Friday, March 3, 2000 — North Shore News - 9

advised that the only options now are three 77-litre cans or the new large green one (approximately 231 litres) available from the district for a mere $134.

The final option was to leave the filled green bags in the alley which is not really an option, given that we share our neighbourhood with sev- eral families of raccoons.

I don’t consider any of these options necessary or logi- cal given the lower volume of garbage generated by our family.

My questions to the dis- trict are:

1) Why should we have to fork over money for new

junk an North Vancouver which glad- ly accepts such human debris, rather than despoiling nature!

There were also old car seats and other junk nearby along the roadside and in the woods. Shame on us all for

garbage cans when the ones we have are perfectly fine?

2) And to reiterate what Mr. Bolt said, why can the collec- tors not judge if the can is too heavy to lift’ and leave it behind if so?

3) Will the collectors pick up the scattered garbage from our bags if we decide to opt for the bags-only option and a raccoon gets there before they do?

The district also advised me that council voted on this and it will nor be reversed. I think this should be put back to council for further consid- eration.

Jennifer Clay North Vancouver

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not doing better.

It is high time to learn and I hope you do your bit to help educate the public in this. Mrs. Nora Coates West Vancouver

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