W~4TX E SDANE PRL 26, 1989e PAGE?7 PAGE SEVEN* Isnt t enain how the garbage issue has corne right back to where it started - another dump in Pickering. Isnt it amazing that polticiens feel they cen ignore the messag they were given and pronised to adhere to in the months Ieading up to the last election. Isn't it exnazing that the wu, provincial government response te this crisis is te pass the CO ET p buck to the municipalities - no new money, no new Y~Lo/FL l / technologies, no laws requiring tergets for recycing, no Wni tebu o rga aet uhm h I K R G. promises to protect citizens fromn megadumps. PI K R N bureaucrats were amazed at how quickly it caught on - the depot was overun with the fruits (cens, botties, etc) of its success. The samie was true in Toronto - and every other cornmunity where blue boxes were introduoed. People want to recycle their waste. They went recyclable products. They went their children te, live in a dlean safe world. Most of us were disappointed at how selective the Blue Box program wes. (Sorry, onily 1.5 litre pop bottles, please. Only some food cane - no pressure cans even if you cut the ends out -of them, no screw-top cane no matter how clean. Only newspapers - no magazines) Most of us are ready, _______________________________ willing end able te, do a whole lot more tewards licking the ~ ~ --- garbage problem. So why are the politiciens and bureaucrats considering yet enother megadump? Because they end the packaging industry are still just paying lipservice te the problemn. They're stili in the "Well-this-is-something-pretty-new- and-wereally.needl-to-study-alltheimpications-before- we-commit-ouselves-to-ite'mode. 0f course, we cen't suddenly start recycling everything. But we cen recycle a lot more than we currently are and we cen get there an awful lot faster. Instead of this new dump lasting five years, it should lest fifty. Durham is aiming at 25% recyling by 1993; the federal governiment has just announced financial support towards a target of 50% by -2000. Pollution Probe says we cen a*chieve 85% by 1994 and theyre not the bunch of radicals they used te be. Mime was on their sideaend theyre now highly respected, well 'funded and righ in the mainstreamn of public opinion. Righ off the top, 35% of our garbage is paper of one form or anoter - alrecycleble; and another 37% is yard and food westes - all compostible ini our own backyards. Polling by Environics research indicates that 80% of Canedians believe that their health has already been affected by pollution end that things are still getting worse. Canadiens want action now. Clearly the bureaucracy is aiming far lower than our expectations. Clearly they could be doing a lot more. Even if *'.p~ Pollution Probes estixnates are exa«erated, the clear message from the people is DO IT! Huge amounts of waste will simply disappear when manufacturers have te produce recyclable products. Econoniic incentives in the form of tex credits te, use recycled JAMES E. BEACOCK!S GENERAL STOIRE AT MYRTLE STATION, 1906 materials would suddenly generate new uses for waste. And a James E. Beacock operated a store and post office et Myrtle Station from 1906 te, 1936. This disposai tex at the consumer level based on the cost of store, on the east side of Hfighway 12, north of the CPR tracks, was destroyed by fire in 1909. disposing of any non-recyceble products would be a powerftil WbIthy Arhive. photo blame it on us. 75 YEARS ADO Durham Region should go it alone. We should develop a I from the 'Thursday, April 23, 1914 edition of the recycling progrem which is the modal for others te follow. We should put the heat on Queen's Park te create markets for WHITBY GAZETrE AND CHRONICLE the recycled material end if they don't.we should dump our e Residents on Brock Street South have petitioned the Town Council te water the street stockpiles on their front lawn. Pressure is the only kind of during the summer te control dust. poliies hat ork somtime. eJohn H. Palmer, a Toronto businessman, is developing Twin Stream Farm at Cochrane policalytht erk entes. o pon ev dou faStreet and the Third Concession. rogngc]ly teentreblute bo prdrin uam dvel e o to * Josph Heard and Sons have added an automobile to their livery equipment te answer alI grudgin commitent by tsotriccnk nua-p rs teincals from trains stopping at Whitby. invest a few million dolrc ne eyl erooini The Roman Catholic Church on John Street is to build a residence for its parièh priest exchange for provincial governnient approval te use adjacent te the church. aiuminum cans. Little ddte nesadtepbi sentiment that lay just below the surface. ____________________1____j