Repor't from Queen's Park By THE HON. GEORGE ASHE, MPP (PC - Durham West) Minister of Government Services Ontario The Ontario Waste Management Corporation, a provincial crown agency has recently produced a bookiet entitled "Hazardous Wastes: Lets Treat Them Right. " Hazardous Wastes - their safe treatment and disposai - 18 a major envfronmental challenge of the 80's. As long as we continue to enjoy the benefits of industrial production - the cars we drive, the paper we write on, the clothes we wear, the plastic toys we buy for our cbidren - we must have an interest in the problems created by industrial waste. 0wr health and the health of our environment could depend on It. THE PROBLEM OF HAZARDOUS WASTE: 'Many of these waste products of the manufac- turing process mnay stili be useful and often flnd their way back to the process through recydling or waste recovery. Some wastes however,' are unavoidable and require *careful treatment and disposaI if they are not to become a threat to human health and the environment. These wastes require special care in handling, transportation, storage, treatment and disoosal. But not ail hazardous wastes are produced by in- dustry. Some are common household produets that we often discrd or flush down the drains without thinklng; for example, pesticides, herbicides, paint, solvents, disinfectants, and aerosols. Although the quantities we use and dispose ofi- dividually mnay be smnall, the« total environmental impact of these wastes are significant. MANAGING INDUSTRfIAL WASTE A comprehensive waste management program must mnclude provisions for: REDUCTION: attacking the problemn at source and finding ways to reduce wastes at the manufacturing stage; RECYCLING: recycling ail wastes that can be used economicaily for their energy content or other properties; EXCHANGE: creatlng ah effective waste exchange system for determining when one industry's wastes can become another industry's raw materials;' COLLECTION & TRANSPORTATION: providing an economicaily feasible and environmentaily safe means of coilecting wastes from the industries that generate them and transporting them to treatment facilities; ,SMLLCAR CENTRE Lube, 011, Flter & 10 pt. Check-Up $13399 Most Cars & SmaII Trucks Watch For Upcomlng Speclaloi 30 Euclld St.3 1h11« _B166-2323 TREATMENT: provlding effective treatment for unavoldable wastes te, ensure that their hazardous properties are elmninated or reduced to a minimum; DISPOSAL: disposing of any treatment residues, preferably in solld formn, Ina properly engineered, controlled and monitored landfiil fadllity. WHAT 1S ONTARIO DOING TO IMPROVE THE INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SITUATION? In June 1983, the Ontario Ministry of the En- vironment proposed a number of changes to en- vironmental legislation and waste management procedures designed to provide better control of liquid industrial and hazardous waste treatnient and disposai. The Ontario government also created the Ontario Waste Management Corporation (OWMC) to develop and implement a province-wide system, for the treatment and disposaI 0f liquid in- dustrial and hazardous wastes. The Ontario government's action plan for the treatment of hazardous wastes represents a com- mitment to safeguard the health and safety of ail Ontarians through comprehensive programs of en- vironmental protection. WHITBY FREE PRESS. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1984, PAGE 7 $1OOOOhiehina, jade taken h home break-i Police are in- vestigating a break and enter at a Brooklin home where $10,000 Worth of jewellry and china was stolen. According to a spokesman for the Durham Regional Police Force, the theft occured sometime bet- ween 9 and Il a.m. last Thursday morning. Police said that'the back door of the Colum- bus Rd. W. was left open while the complainent's husband was working in the barn. When he returned to the bouse at about il a.m. he went to* the den, no realizlng that anything was wrong. Wben the lady of the bouse returned early that afternoon she went upstairs to discover that the door to the master bedroom had been kicked-in. After ran- sacking the room, the thieves left with many, valuable pieces. Including the inven- £tory of stolen itemns we: a five-inch high Chinese vase valued at - $65; a white ivory elephant on a pedestal worth $600; a jade figure of a goat worth $1,200; a figure of two hummingbirds' on a hibiscus flower hase valued at $1,50W; a figure of Napoleon on a horse worth $800; and, two Kaiser- porcelain sparrows also valued at $800. Police said that many other items were also taken. The investigation is continuing. PRO DODGE. Your Local Chrysier. Dodge Sales end Service FJ Dernier i Partsn Service.- Thuradmys tili 9 p.m. 209 Dundee St. W. ATTERSLEY TIRE SERVICE IPASSENGER & LIG HT TRUCKS BRAKES TUNE-UP SHOCKS EXHAUST 103 Dundas E. Whitby 162 King St. E. Oshawa rEr4f QAnnf