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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-12-13, Page 8Huron County's Complete VEHICLE ° RENTAL 1113El Headquarters "' 0 0 Small & Mid-sized Cars iu 0 0 Passenger & Cargo "' Vans. Pickup Trucks 1] 0 Daily. Weekly, Monthly"' 0 0 p Insurance Rentals & More ID "' 0 0 Free Delivery ID 0 0 Ask about our full 11] ° er transportation svice "' rs D •-Tlls HURON &member 13, 111311 • Local Contamination problem in recycling bins BY-MONA IRWIN SSP News Staff It's not a problem — yet. But a spokesman for Bluewater Recycling Association says contaminants in recycling bins can affect more than just the items in that bin. By 'contaminants', BR operations and marketing co- ordinator Greig Archibald doesn't. mean toxic waste. It can be something as simple as including those transparent plastic containers in which supermarkets sell baked goods. They're not recyclable. Nor are hard -cover books, carbon paper, post -it notes, or the caps from rigid plastic containers. "We accept or reject a load based on our acceptable level of contamination," Archibald says. Most places set the limit at 5 per cent cont- amination. • "If you've got 100 pounds of paper, and six pounds of that is actually garbage, that's over the acceptable level and the whole load can be reject- ed," he says. And if it's reject- ed, into the landfill site it goes. "The worst part is that the majority of people take the time to follow correct proce- dures," he says. "But a few can ruin it for the many." Nor surprisingly, contami- nation is more likely to be a problem in rural areas, where numerous houses use large, industrial -size bins. "Last week J went to the bin at Egmondville. Somebody had dumped a whole load of glass in with the paper" "Anytime you get more than one household using a receptacle, there's more chance of a problem," Archibald says. With the blue boxes, the com- pany collecting the material can take the time to quickly sort through each, returning non -acceptable items and putting a sticker on the box to let the resident know why the item or items have been left behind. That's not possible with the large bins. Contamination isn't a big problem in most of the depots Don Carter collects .from. Carter, the owner of the Wingham-based Carter's Waste Disposal, has six depots: Egmondville, Vana tra, Holmesville, Saltfo1d, Goderich Municipal Airport and one at the old municipal office on County Rd. 25. The only depot that con- sistently has problems is the one in Vanastra, he says. "It's just a matter of edu- cation," says Carter. For instance, "a lot of people fig- ure glass is glass. They don't differentiate between glass bottles, Pyrex and window glass. "We've gotten the 'bladder' Future funding of J -K up in the air BY AMY NEILANDS SSP News Staff The future of junior kinder- garten is up 'in the air. Future funding for JK is now uncertain and the provincial government will decide later this month whether they will continue to provide assistance for this program. "It would be a shame to see it go down," said Wilhelmina Laurie, president of the Huron Women's Teachers' As- sociation. "It took a number of years for this concept to get going." JK was first offered by the separate school system in Huron, and then a year later by the local public board, con- cerned about losing students and as a result per -capita funds. The teachers' association president notes JK is an issue that provincial governments have been debating for decades. It was just in 1994 that the junior kindergarten program was to be implemented into all Ontario schools. One year later, the new government made the JK program optional, and now funding for the program is under question. "Unless provincial funding is available, past experience in Ontario has shown that many school boards will be unable to • finance the program. Junior kindergarten will not be offered where it is needed most, thus undermining its effect on future opportunities for their children," Laurie states in a letter to Huron MPP Helen Johns. Currently, the JK program in Huron provides a net credit to local taxation of over $250,000 a year. "That represents one - and -a -half per cent on the mill rate," says Paul Carroll, direc- tor of education for the Huron County Board of Education "We would be hard-pressed to take it out." On whether or not the HCBE would continue the program without government assistance, Carroll notes: "That depends on how funding is withdrawn. If it would hurt the taxpayer, we would take it out. But that is something that hasn't been discussed by the board." TOWN OF SEAFORTH -NOTICE- TO SNOWMOBILE OPERATORS • Please obey all traffic signs and rules & regulations pertaining to the operation of a motor vehicle. •When in Seaforth, please remain on the trail established by the B&W Trailblazers as outlined below. • Stay off of lawns and sidewalks. • Keep to the right. • 20 km maximum on all streets. • No machines in town from 11:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. • Ride safely. U us from waterbeds — it looks like plastic, but it's not. We've got- ten aluminum lawn chairs and frying pans", none of which are recyclable. "Last week I went to the bin at Egmondville. Somebody had dumped a whole load of glass in with the paper. I took everything out to the dump. You can't do anything with that; you can't sort it, and no farmer is going to want to use the paper as bedding if there's glass mixed in with it." "The less contamination, the better it is for everybody," Archibald explains. "And it keeps the market strong. You get a better and product, whether it's plastic pellets, to make more plastic bottles, or glass to make more glass con- tainers." It also encourages people to make proper purchasing decisions. For example, BR does not accept polystyrene containers — those baked' goods containers mentioned earlier. "So people may switch to paper bags, which can be included in the newspapers," he .says. Sometimes truckloads are given "a quick visual inspec- tion" as they come into the recycling plant, says Archibald. At BR, "we often don't know what's in the load until it's off-loaded here. If it's off- loaded separately, we can just pick it up and put it out with the trash" if there's too many contaminants. "But there's a snowball effect: if it's offloaded near a pile of acceptable material, and the two piles mix together, there's an even larger area of contamination." 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