whitby Free Proe, Wednesday, Juno 8,1994, Page 15 ilospital council hasdirecctor LETTER TO THE EDITOR The May 18 issue of The Free Press hit the jackpot for me with two letters to the editor regarding garbage a cartoon entitled 'Spring fever'and a letter from a World War II vet. In Hilda Dunbar's letter, she was distressed that on her street she saw bags of leaves, bundies of twigs, garbage and recyclables ail awaiting their collection. "Is there a solution?" she asks. The answer is yes.' Firstly, select a space in your yard to compost. Layer al kitchen organic waste with leaves to hel p decrease waste going to landfill and the municipal composting facility and at the same time you will create a natural fertilizer. If you have too many leaves to compost, build a special box to êcntain them.Leave grass clippings on the lawri. Next, reduce purchases that you do not really need, buy in bulk, eliminate disposables and avoid items that are over- packaged. Reuse. Take cloth bags shopping, support opportunity shops, purchase pop in returnable bottles, reuse gift wrappings and lug- a-rnug where beverages are served. Recycle what is left. Buy food in containers that are accepted in your blue box. Take dlean -plastic film, such as bread bags, to a supermarket that recycles them. Take plastic containers to a friend who municipally accepts them. Send aIl paper, if possible, with a working member of the family whose office recycles paper. Mr. Inkpen of Whitby suggests ini his letter that we bale our garbage and send it to old mines. Eventually, when the mines are filled, or when Ohio (sending it by rail ta the U.S. is now being pr)ooed) cannot take any more, the problem will then be assumedb y our children. The cartoon about garbage sales is one solution to our problemns as proven by the adage 'One man's trash is another man's treasure. Another solution is to become less of a consumer and more of a conserver. In 1993, research revealed that on average, for each lare green garbage bag put out at curbside, 72 additional bags had been created through the industrial waste strearn or primary resource extraction and processing associated with those manufactured consumer items inside the bag. This waste is generated from material extracted frorn its source, sewage sludge, mine tailings and other manufacturing debris. Althouigh Tom Doucette's letter to the ecitor had notlung to do with garbage, it served as a reminder that as a volunteer for the armed services, hie helped to win a war. Today's battle îs just as important. The enemy, however, is more deadly -- our comfortable throw-away habits and our dependence on the government to solve our environmental p roblemns. How cari we win? Join an environniental graup. Become aware. Think globally, act locally. Are we up for the challenge as the generation before us? Can we solve these problemns we created? You bet we can. 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