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TERRACE BAY NEWS JULY 21, 1971 Bill Smiley - cont'd from page 3 ..... such garbage. It is common practice in many of the countries of the world which are out- stripping Canada and the U.S. internationally. It also makes a great deal of com- mon sense, It boggles one's mind to think of the millions of tons of paper, cans, bottles and other reclaimable materials which head each week for the garbage dump. There are several reasons for this vast wastage. One of them is that we have tre- mendous natural resources and we throw them away with a lavish hand. It's like living on one's capital. A second reason, obviously, is that industry is not geared for reclaiming waste. In many cases it's probably cheaper to produce new tins than to recycle tin. Neither of these reasons is a valid one. In the first place, those "inexhaustible resources" of raw material could be exhausted in a few decades. In the second, in- dustry should, and must, find cheap means of re- cycling manufactured mate- rials into raw materials. But of course it's much simpler to look at the im- mediate buck. It's much simpler just to raise the price of the product than to find methods of using dis- posable items over and over again, Like everything else, the recycling business seems complicated. A local organi- zation is raising money for a worthy cause. It is collec- ting newspapers. But they must be bundled and tied just so. And they don't want any other kinds of paper. In the meantime, I throw out five hundred pounds of books, which have a higher rag content than the newsprint which is being picked up. Seems silly. What ever became of the old junk-man? There was the ideal catalyst between the consumer and the re- cycler. The perfect middle- man. Most small towns had a junk-man, He usually had a big yard with a fence around it, and inside the fence was an exotic jungle of junk. ~ When I was a kid the junk-man was my chief source of income. A vast, genial Jew with a benign twinkle, he treated us as one businessman to another. There was little haggling on our part, because it was the only game in town, but on the other hand, he didn't try to beat us down. Prices were established. Pint beer bottles were worth a cent, quarts two cents. He'd double his money on them. Old car tires were a nickel apiece. Paper and scrap iron were carefully weighed, and after a judi- cious pause, beard cocked to one side, he'd say, "I gif you twelf cents." An enterprising kid could pick himself up forty or fifty cents a week, big money in those days. And if we caught a nice pike in the canal (this was before peo- ple worried about sewage and such) it was a bonanza, worth a dime or fifteen cents. But a meal for his family. He prospered. And many of the big fortunes in Canada today started out in the junk-yard. The junk- man was an unrecognized benefactor to society. During the war, there were tremendous drives for scrap metal and newsprint. It must have been used for something, = Pig farmers picked up the food garbage from big military kitchens. Why couldn't we do the same today? It would pro- vide employment, stop wasting resources, and do a lot to clean up our environ- ment. I'd be perfectly willing to sort my garbage into waste food, bottles and cans, and newspapers. How about you? We could all be our own junk-men, and do a lot for our country. The Argyle Syndicate Positive tree identification requires close soruntiny of legves, flowers, fruit, twigs and bark. One of the best Canedien tree books is "Native Trees of Canada" by R,C. Hosie (seventh edition) available from the Queen's Printer for Ceneds., CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. "Now ---- this" 5. Word of regret 9. Suit fabric 10. Used a razor strop 12. 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