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When children hear about a problem that needs to be soived they get excited and pass the word along .to their parents. And that‘s one of the best reasons for teaching children to be concerned about the reâ€" cycling of valuable materials. This is the philosophy held by Carol Unrich, of Parkâ€" wood Cres. in Waterigo. Mrs. Unrich, a member of PROBE and the Kâ€"W garbage coalition concerned with recylcing, says society must educate children, in order to get the concept of waste reduction across to the adults. Children see truth without the adult blocks of poliâ€" tics and gameâ€"playing,"‘ she said. _ Mrs. Unrich says people have too much money, thus enabling them to say ‘‘*so what if it costs ten cents for a pop can without the pop in it."‘ She says there is little hope for many adults in today‘s consumerâ€"wastâ€" ing society who are, in her opinion, too far gone. _ *‘*We must get to the children," .she said recently, ‘‘especially 15 and 16â€"yearâ€"olds who will be the purâ€" chasingâ€"adults with families in only f_iv‘eA years."‘ Clemmer Industries, at 446 Albert Street in Waterâ€" 10o0, has provided a bin at their entrance for recyclable metals. Containers are provided for pop cans, lead pipes, copper and brass, aluminum, cast iron and stainless steel. . Mrs. Unrich gave some exar#)les of what she conâ€" siders to be extreme wastage in the packaging of proâ€" ducts. She says that one metal pop can is worth 10 cents. She also feels that the boxes used for potato chips is another unnecessary waste. She said there is even a new cake that comes with its own disposable baking ran. _/ O _ Accor%h‘lg to Mrs. Unrich, it takes 400 trees to print a newspaper the size of the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo _ The local woman also wonders why the government doesn‘t recycle liquor and wine bottles and says that ‘*we need legislation on these matters.‘" o It‘s been another good year: Young Increased public concern has prompted Waterloo City Council to approach Superior Sanitation regardâ€" ing the feasibility of a paper collection in Waterloo. No decisions have been made. Kitchener holds a reguâ€" lar paper drive every two weeks. It‘s just another day‘s work. That‘s Jack Young‘s attitude towards his job as chairman of Waterloo regional government. c . To him, many issues don‘t loom as important as they do to others. He puts in a full day, often more than a full day in meeting his many varied responâ€" sibilities, and tries to do his best in meeting them. That‘s the approach he has taken in his five years as chairman and that‘s the approach he will take as 1978 dawns and he enters his sixth and final year in the top regional post. _ in an interview recently, Mr. Young looked back over some of the accomplishments and disappointâ€" Teach children about recycling, urges Waterloo woman "gnwad2 * ..‘ * & fm-x;u'? F ol & s thoise > * & * S By Tony Reitmayer By Jim MacDonald Now is the time to begin teaching children about there‘s not much hope for us aduits, she says. . Regional roundâ€"up . ments of the past year and what lies ahead in the next 12 months. "On balance, it‘s been a pretty good year," he summed up. A significant step last year, and a key element in 1978, was the establishment of the regional govâ€" ernment review commission headed by William Palmer, former head of the Ontario Municipal Board. ~ "That wasn‘t an easy chore," Mr. Young explainâ€" ed, We spent an awful lot of time on that."* By ‘we‘, he means regional council whose initiaâ€" tive established the review and who drafted most of the terms of references and picked the commisâ€" sion head. *‘*We need support for our endeavours," says Mrs. Unrich. ‘‘We also need people to be concerned enough about waste reduction to do something about it themâ€" selves, to make that trip to the dropâ€"off bin and to â€"*â€" "i.. Waterioo Chronicis, Wednesday, January 4, 1978 â€" Page 3 _ == ~. recycling, says Carol Unrich of Waterloo. However, boycott products that cater to waste." Mrs. Unrich is also working on the possibility of setting up a lass recycling project, but nothing posiâ€" tive has happened yet. . The impact of the commission will begin to be felt over the next few months as the commission gears up towards its first session of public hearings. Mr. Young expects a lot of public input but hopes it will be directed towards serious concerns and not frivolous complaints. + One victory in 1977 was the region‘s ability to hold the budget to a 3.2 per cent increase in general terms, not a small accomplishment in light of a regional pot of gold which isn‘t growing as fast as deâ€" mands, needs, or inflation. . _ ‘"The priorities will have to be very carefully orâ€" dered,"" Mr. Young admitted. _ 7 . That wasn‘t easy and it won‘t be easy to hold down the budget this year either. The region has set a 3 per cent guideline, the expected increase in assessment, for its departments to meet. If met, and there are plenty of doubts that it will be, there will be no regional tax increase this year. Tough decisions will have to be made especially regarding road projects, he feels. Other. departments may not be as bad off.â€" What Mr. Young fears is the great temptation to debenture capital projects, a temptation which should be resisted unless very major works are inâ€" volved. If debenturing continues unabated, eventually a municipality finds their funds are just being used to retire debt, he fears. Mr. Young admitted that he has discovered if the region wanted to spend money, there are ‘"inexhaustâ€" ible avenues we can go to." _ But the region has been prudent, he feels, noting evidence indicates the region is not the big spender many people think it is. c s _ ‘"The facts and figures don‘t bear out what a lot of people say about regional government,"" he said. , 9 â€" â€" m o esc l Cura ook on oo e ene s ols can enR e at e Taxes have not gone up as much as thought, said Mr. Young, suggesting taxes have increased subâ€" stantially more in other regions. And he‘s not sure that their services are as good as the level of service provided in Waterloo region, something he is proud of _ He is baffled by the public perception that the reâ€" gion is aloof and unappreachable. People who say regional government is remote are not aware of on td octh td wa ‘*:: {(Continued on page 21)