Guelph garbage plan encourages more waste Final Edition
Rockland, a community near Ottawa, and Guelph are approaching garbage very differently. Rockland is exemplary in its focus on reduction and responsibility. It has just banned all compostables from garbage pickup and is offering free composters to every home and worm composting for apartment dwellers...
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| Published in | Kitchener-Waterloo record |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Kitchener, Ont
Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
12.04.1993
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| Summary: | Rockland, a community near Ottawa, and Guelph are approaching garbage very differently. Rockland is exemplary in its focus on reduction and responsibility. It has just banned all compostables from garbage pickup and is offering free composters to every home and worm composting for apartment dwellers. Rockland's new municipal law will reduce garbage by 50 per cent. In contrast, Guelph's plan encourages the consumption-as-usual approach that would build a $36-million garbage mega-processing facility, informally called the "wet//dry" facility. People would put their garbage into two bins - "dry" for recyclables (plastics, metals and paper) and "wet" for compostables (food scraps, diapers, sanitary pads). All of this would then be processed at a central sorting facility where "dry" would be recycled and "wet" would be sorted. Composting of diapers is quite problematic. [Bill Winegard] was incorrectly identified as environment minister in this Second Opinion. The Guelph MP, with other,s is awaiting an environmental assessment of the Guelph waste treatment plant. - 930414/cm |
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