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Peter Cook, who works in the maintenance department of Blyth Festival has been supervising a
special recycling program at the Food Spot. While the village has no program yet, the Festival
initiated their own last month. Volunteers take thecansand bottles toClinton Public Works. They are
then transportedwith Clinton’s recyclables to Bluewater Recycling in Grand Bend.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1990. PAGE 3.
Blyth Festival runs own recycling program
BY BONNIE GROPP
Despite the fact there is no
recycling program operating in
Blyth, the Blyth Festival has been
doing what they can to lessen the
urden on the Blyth-Hullett Land
fill site through the efforts of
several committed individuals.
Since the beginning of July, ad
ministration, staff, and company of
Blyth Fefstival have embarked on
their own recycling campaign as
part of their hope to be concerned
with the amount of garbage that is
being dumped.
According to Jane Gardner,
Director of Communications at the
Festival, there are 75 drinks sold a
night, resulting in about 500 empty
bottles and cans weekly, that used
to go into the landfill site. “With no
recycling program in Blyth we felt
we had to be responsible for
finding a way to recycle.”
Development Co-ordinator
Lynda Lentz made a presentation to
Bluewater Recycling in Grand
Bend requesting special permis
sion for the Festival’s bottles and
cans. The response was very
positive, Ms. Lentz said, with the
only stipulation being that the
Festival try and make it as easy as
possible for Bluewater to pick up
the recyclables.
The solution was that once a
week someone delivered the recy
clables to Clinton from where they
are shipped out with Clinton Public
Works thanks to the co-operation of
Harold Gibbings and the town who
permitted them access into their
vcling program.
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a fee to go to Bluewater for sorting
and shipping,” said Ms. Gardner.
“The help we received from Mr.
Gibbings and Clinton has been
tremendous. We have 100 em
ployees who live outside of Blyth in
areas where there is recycling; this
allows them to continue those
habits.” Many of the Blyth
residents of the theatre have been
bringing in their personal recy
clables to add to the Festival’s, she
added.
“Dave Wilson (the kingpin of
Bluewater) was very enthusiastic
and supportive, as was Clinton,”
Ms. Lentz said. “This is an issue
that goes beyond municipal boun
daries. It reflects a global concern;
their support has been very encour
aging.”
Special credit also should go,
Ms. Gardner says, to Peter Cook,
who works in the maintenance
department of the Festival. Mr.
Cook has, according to Ms. Gard
ner been responsible for co-ordi
nating the program in the down
stairs Food Spot, and spends one
hour daily just sorting recyclables.
“He has given tremendous co-op
eration to the project.” There are
also blue boxes placed behind the
scenes and in the downstairs lower
hall for use by visitors to the
Festival.
Ms. Gardner’s contribution
should also not go unnoticed,
explains Ms. Lentz, who says her
trunk is filled constantly with
bottles and cans to be transported
to Clinton.
There are other areas where
steps are being taken as well. The
Festival approached Blyth Printing
on the use of recyclable paper for
their programs, brochures, and
newsletters. “We made a firm
decision that we wouldn’t buy
unless it was recyclable,” said Ms.
Gardner. “It took Doug (at Blyth
Printing) two weeks to find the
source and he says the only others
to ask for this, out of the hundreds
of clients he has, have been
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority. In terms of summer
theatre, only Blyth and the Red
Barn in Toronto are on a campaign
to use recycled paper. If each
business would ask if they could
first find something in recycled
material to print things on they
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“Small companies can set an
example,” says Ms. Gardner.
“Most of the stuff we use here is
re-used. We no longer use styro
foam and with the new facility we
have more storage space so a lot of
the sets, props and things that used
to be sent to the dump are stored
for longer. As much as we can, we
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