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Bluewater moves
to new Huron
Park facility
Bluewater Recycling Association
began moving its sorting equipment
down the road to its new home at
Huron Park last Friday.
Dave Wilson said dismantling the
Grand Bend Airport plant, on
Highway 81, began early Friday
after employees worked until 10
p.m. the previous night processing
recycleable materials. While they
got the day off, remaining employ-
ees helped Van Gorp Welding and
Fabricating Inc. of Thedford dis-
mantle equipment including plastic
container bins. Contractors spent
the weekend installing the old
equipment in the Huron Park build-
ing, he said.
On Monday, the recycling associ-
ation was scheduled to resume pro-
cessing, said Wilson, but full pro-
cessing won't be accomplished until
later in the month.
The move to Huron Park comes as
a result of increasing demand to
recycle material causing Bluewater
Recycling to outgrow its current
facility.
Bluewater Recycling . now
receives material from 40 munici-
palities. This month alone, three
communities-Lucan, Blyth and
Hibbert Township -have joined the
,association. St. Marys is scheduled
for inclusion the first week in May,
said Wilson.
Auburn Lions to
clean up land
The Auburn and District Lions
Club has been authorized by
Hulleu Township Council to
clean up (at their expense) a
strip of land between County
Road 8 and the Maitland River.
This is to create a 'green space'
for public use. The club is asked
to notify the township prior to
any alterations, additions or
abandonment of the project.
DAVID SCOTT PHOTO
TREE FOR EARTH DAY - The Seaforth Manor received a new
tree on Friday as part of Earth Day celebrations. The Honey
Locust was made available through John Gibson and the
Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Foundation's "Commemorative
Woods Program." Planting the new tree were, from left: Jim
Butson, Seaforth Manor Nursing Home resident Marg Smale and
Ted Jones. Marg and her husband Frank tumed the first sod for
Manor renovations in October, 1987.
Newspapers actively recycling
It seems fitting that on Earth Day
we should think about what we do
to protect our environment. As
newspapers, we're proud that where
there are Blue Box programs, 75
per cent of newspapers are
recovered and with your help, we're
working to increase that figure. As
our customers, we think it's import-
ant that you know what we do
behind the scenes, in our printing
plants, to put the three R's into
practice.
Many newspaper printing plants
have waste audits conducted. Much
like financial audits, waste audits
are done by experts who come in
and measure the amount of waste
generated, identify the kinds of
waste and fmd. out where they all
go. Audits have shown that as much
as 93 per cent of waste generated in
We
Recycle
OUR CARDBOARD
YOU
CAN RECYCLE
YOUR PLASTIC
SHOPPING BAGS
We have a box at the
front of our store for
you to place your
plastic shopping bags
to be recycled!
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the plants is being diverted from
garbage bins.
All waste newsprint is recycled
right down to the core its rolled on.
In general, press rooms waste very
little newsprint - only between one
and three per cent. And our news-
print contains recycled paper. In
Ontario, newspapers use 35 per cent
recycled content newsprint on aver-
age.
Printing inks, photographic chemi-
cals and the solvents we use to
clean the presses are also recycled.
(Today, most newspapers use inks
that are vegetable oil-based). Even
the metal press plates are sold for
scrap value and recycled.
We also restrict the number of
copies we print and most of the
unsold papers are collected from the
vending boxes and retailers and sent
IT'S TIME TO
CLEAN UP OUR
ACT. START
WITH A QUICK
PICK-ME-UP IN
YOUR OWN
NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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to the paper mills for recycling.
Many newspapers have changed
their looks over the past few years.
Switching to smaller pages and
narrower margins means we use
less newsprint.
Most of us think of bottles when
we think "reusable" but newspapers
are reusable too. Statistics show
that each newspaper is read by an
average of three people, and the last
person to read it usually makes sure
it gets recycled.
It always feels good to know
you're doing your part for the envi-
ronment. But on Earth Day
especially, it's important that we all
look ahead and see what can still be„
done. Everyone has a role to play.
When it comes to newspapers, we'll
continue to improve our efforts, and
please remember to recycle all of
your newspapers.
Environmental farm
planning used in
Huron County
by Christopher Guly
Farmers helping farmers is not a
new idea, but Environmental Farm
Plans (EFPs) are.
EFPs are documents prepared by
farm families to raise their aware-
ness of the environment on their
fann. Launched in January by the
Ontario Farm Environmental Coali-
tion, which consists of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture, Christian
Farmers Federation of Ontario,
Agricultural Groups Concerned
about Resources and the Environ-
ment (AGCare), and the Ontario
Farm Animal Council, EFPs will
build on the helping culture that
exists within the agncultural com-
munity.
Farmers will complete only those
of 23 EFP worksheets that apply to
their farm. Some of the topics
include well water condition, pesti-
cide and petroleum storage, soil
management, and water and energy
conservation.
The success of the four-year EFP
program, which will target over
14,000 Ontario farm families, will
depend on a local, farmer -to -farmer
approach to technology transfer.
Farmers who choose to participate
will interact with their peers to
share their practical experience and
insights.
"We have found that experienced
producers have an instant credibility
with other farmers that is hard to
match," explains Don Taylor, direc-
tor of the Ridgetown College of
Agricultural Technology, which has
offered farmer -led technology trans-
fer courses since the mid-1970s.
The EFP peer review process will
build on a participative, informal
program design that allows farmers
to gain hands-on experience and
discuss ideas.
Already, the Ontario Soil and
Crop Improvement Association has
followed this concept in delivering
its Land Stewardship Program at
ENVIRONMENTAL
• <2 ' FARM
NOM PLAN
the local level.
Last year, the Ontario Farm Envi-
ronmental Coalition launched a
pilot EFP program to 500 farmers
in the counties of Essex, Huron,
Oxford, Niagara North, Hastings.
Prescott -Russell and Temiskaming.
The Ontario Soil and Crop
Improvement Association hosted the
workshops where participants were
introduced to the EFP process and
asked to provide feedback.
"Fanners involved in the pilot
project provided very positive com-
ments about the EFP process," says
Jeff Wilson, chairman of AGCare.
"The idea for EFPs actually orig-
inated within the Ontario farm..
community, and farmers have been
involved with every step of devel-
oping the EFPs."
Farm Plan workshops will be held
throughout 1994 to provide a
hands-on forum for farmers to
exchange ideas and discuss issues
that emerge from the voluntary,
confidential EFP process.
Don Hill, EFP Coordinator, says
that EFPs will benefit Ontario
farmers by helping them identify
areas where they already effectively
manage environmental concerns,
and help them set realistic goals for
dealing with potential risk areas.
"The peer review process will
consist of a small team of local
farmers who are experienced with
farm environmental isswits," he
explains.
Simple anonymous data from the
EFPs will be compiled in a prov-
ince -wide database intended to help
policy and program development on
farm environmental issues.
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