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Times -Advocate, January 23, 1975
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Saturday
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By JACK RIDDELL M.P.P.
On December 19, the three
volume report of the Environ-
ment Ministry's Solid Waste Task
Force was tabled in the
Legislature by Environment
\linister William Newman. The
Vain subject of the detailed
report centres on the problem of
lust how much waste is caused by
throwaway bottles and cans and
what can be done to encourage
the use of returnable bottles.
While the facts in the report
make clear the need for a ban on
non -refillable bottles and cans, no
strong recommendations were
made because of the greater
number of industry represen-
tatives over consumer and en-
vironmental representatives on
the Task Force.
The Provincial Task Force was
formed back in the fall of 1972, to
look at the problems of solid
waste and the then Minister of
Seeks no -return bottle ban
the Environment, James Auld
asked that it concentrate on the
packaging of milk, carbonated
soft drinks and alcoholic and
other beverages. These problems
were seen as the most pressing
solid waste problems in the
Province at the time.
Two sub groups, the Beverage
Packaging Working Group and
the Milk Packaging Working
Group were formed to study
these issues. However, half of the
members of the Solid Waste Task
Force were representatives of
the interested industries and the
industry representatives further
outnumbered consumer and
environmental group
representatives on the two
working groups by two to one.
The representation on these
groups did nothing more than
polarize the industry and con-
sumer interests.
Since the business of the Task
Force and the Working Groups
were decided by majority vote.
the composition on the groups
was very significant. In fact, the
Beverage Packaging Group
which contained seven
representatives from related
beverage industries and three
consumer representatives were
unable to agree on anything
except that the 16 recom-
mendations it did offer would be
inadequate in themselves to
produce a substantial im-
provement in the availability of
Cromarty ladies meet,
discuss food poisoning
By MRS. ROBERT LAING
CROMARTY
Cromarty Ladies' Aid met at
the home of \Irs. J. Carey with
Mrs. R Laing presiding. The
meeting opened with a reading.
Better to Strive. and Hymn 373,
The Great Physician.
Mrs. Mervin Dow gave the
deovotions based on leadership.
Mrs. Charles Douglas read an
article on food safety which listed
those ingredients most apt to be
involved in food poisoning and
says to prevent them from
• spoiling.
Nine members answered the
roll call with a household hint and
the payment of a membership
fee. Mrs. Carey gave the
December minutes and read
thank -you notes from persons
who received shut-in boxes at
Christmas. `M,'. John \filler
gave the treasurer's report.
During the business. the group
decided to buy Bibles for use in
the Sunday School.
Catering prices will he revised
at the \larch meeting. Layettes
for Unitarian Services will be
turned in at the same meeting.
The closing hymn was Sun of
my Soul. followed by the Lord's
Prayer in unison.
Personals
Anthony. Leyland of England
has been a guest for the past
three weeks at the home of Mr. &
Mrs. John Scott.
On Saturday Mr. & Mrs.
Carlyle Meikle and family at-
tended a New Year's gathering at
the home of Mr. & Mrs. Jim
Meikle. Exeter.
Mrs Thos. L. Scott spent
Monday and Tuesday in London
at a meeting of the Board of
Congregational Life of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Mrs Scott was a delegate from
the Stratford Presbyterial of the
W.M.S.
Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle Meikle and
family visited recently with Mr.
& Mrs Garry Finlayson. RR 2
Kippen.
Mr. & Mrs. Otto Walker
celebrated their wedding an-
niversary at the home of their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. &
Mrs Hugh Currie, Dorchester.
Also present were Mr. & Mrs R.
Hulley. Winthrop, Mr. & Mrs. A.
Walker. and Mr. & Mrs. J.
McGhee. London, and their
families. Mr. K. Walker, London,
and Mrs. Larry Gardiner, Steven
and Leanne. Cromarty.
Mrs. John Wallace and Mrs.
Charles Douglas attended the
training school for the next 4-1-1
homemaking project Clothes for
Leisure.
ACW plan
Feb. banquet
By MRS. HEBER DAVIS
SAINTSBURY
Wednesday evening the ACW
held their January meeting at
the home of Mrs. Earl Greenlee.
The President Mrs. Joan
Greenlee presided and led in
prayer and meditation and the
litany. Mrs. Ron Carroll read the
Scripture.
Mrs. Harry Carroll was
elected treasurer for 1975 and
1976. Mrs. M. Greenlee read the
minutes of the last meeting.
At the close of the devotional
period plans were made for an
early February banquet.
Mrs. Ron Carroll thanked Mrs.
Greenlee for her home and social
hour
Personals
Church service on Sunday was
held at the home of Mr. & Mrs.
Harry Carroll. The annual
Vestry meeting will be held on
February 5 at the home of Mr. &
Mrs. Hugh Davis at eight
o'clock.
Mr. & Mrs. Pete Sovereign and
children were Sunday dinner
guests with Mr. & Mrs. Bob Tin-
dall and family.
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Greenlee and
Rev. & Mrs. George Anderson
were Saturday evening dinner
guests with Mr. & Mrs. Larry
Greenlee and Derek. Rev
Anderson was observing his
birthday.
Mr. Gote Wennerstrom and
Mr. Si Mrs. Heber Davis were
Sunday dinner guests with Mr &
Mrs. Harry Carroll.
The ladies of St. Patrick's
church quilted on Monday at the
home of Mrs. Harry Carroll.
FRIDAY
SPECIALS
THIS WEEK
i
Chicken
Chow
Mein
2.15
Honey
Ribs
2.65
Fish
8
Chips
1.65
Chinese Main St.
Waily's Garden Exeter
Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
235-0464. Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Sundays 12 noon to 8 p.m.
returnable bottles. However, a
approach was made to makin
returnable bottles moreavailabl
to the public.
What fife findings of the repor
do show, is that non-refillabl
containers are environmentall
harmful and that "any switc
from the use of non -refillable sof
drink bottles and cans t
refillable bottles is beneficial t
the environment".
The Solid Waste Task Force
recommended adoption of the
Working Group reports. The
report of the Milk Packaging
Working Group was tabled in the
Legislature months ago. The
report of the Beverage Packing
Working Group produced 16
recommendations of which the
Government has accepted 14.
The first recommendation of
the Group was that, where soft
drinks were being sold, they must
he available in refillable con-
tainers as well as throwaway
containers. This would make sure
that consumers hada fair choice in
the market place since it is ex-
tremely difficult today to find a
retail outlet who stocks retur-
nable bottles. This was a key
recommendation when compared
to the others but one which was
rejected by William Newman.
Also rejected was the
recommendation that the deposit
price for beer containers be in-
creased from the present 2 cents
to encourage an even greater
return of the bottles.
The one recommendation
adopted which requires response
from the beverage industry is
that the pull tab on cans be
phased out over the next twelve
months. The cans themselves,
however, would not he banned.
The fact that this was the only
recommendation which required
any action from the beverage
industry is even more significant
when one considers the fact that
industry was already working on
this question.
On December 22, only three
days after the Task Force Report
was made public, the Continental
Can Company of Canada Ltd.,
announced a new type of flip top
can that is opened by a foil strip
that remains attached to the can.
Also recommended and
adopted was that a Waste
Management Advisory Board be
established to provide a per-
manent group to look at the
broader issues which had
escaped the work of the Solid
Waste Task Force. The other
adopted recommendations dealt
merely. with "urging" or "en-
couraging" soft drink companies
to promote the sale of refillable
containers.
These recommendations will
do nothing to encourage the use of
returnable bottles but will merely
force the vendor who now does
sell returnables to he more
regulated than before.
In effect, while the Con-
servative Government them-
selves have defined non-
returnable containers as a
problem, they have not taken any
action to deal with the problem in
the last four years.
It was back in 1970 that George
Kerr, the then Minister of the
Environment promised
legislation to reduce the use of
non -returnable pop containers. In
March 1973 Environment
Minister James Auld stated that
"the Province has a very definite
commitment to hold the line on
the increase in the amount of
n garbage. Strong leadship will be
g taken in this field so that we cut
e down as much as possible on one
way disposable cartons that will
t include cans, bottles, and plastic
e containers."
y Today, this so-called "strong"
h leadership has sparked
t Environment Minister William
o Newman to merely ban the flip -
o top on non -returnable cans, along
with sitting down with industry to
"encourage" them to use
refillable containers.
Solid Waste in Ontario now
exceeds six million tons per year.
Garbage disposal costs the
taxpayers of the Province $100
million per year: In 1972, the
composite beverage industry
generated an estimated 241,846
tons of waste at a cost to the
taxpayer of $3,869,000. The
estimated waste amounted to 6.76
per cent of the estimated 3,575,000
tons of solid waste collected by
municipalities in that year.
Further, different surveys
show beverage containers to
make up between 9 percent and
33 percent of total litter in
Ontario, at an estimated cost for
collection anywhere from
$834,005 to $13,168,500.
In 1972, the total energy con-
sumption connected with the
manufacture and disposal of
primary containers amounted to
3.233 billion kilowatt hours. This
energy is sufficient to heat 25,500
average sized Ontario homes for
a year and this degree of energy
consumption would be valued at
$32.3 million.
The ideal environmental
solution would be to eliminate
waste at'its source. That is - to get
rid of things that we do not really
use such as excess packaging,
and replace things that are
discarded after one use with
things that can be re -used many
times over. A switch from the
throwaway can and bottle to the
returnable container would
provide an excellent example.
In it's inability to act on the
question of non -returnable
`containers for the last five years,
the Government has done nothing
more than intensify the problem.
It has created the situation which
would result in employment
disruption and make a ban more
difficult.
The Solid Waste Task Force
has also Studied this question of
employment disruption by a ban
on non -returnable bottles. While
the container industry has
estimated that 1,749 jobs would
be lost by a ban, the analysis of
the Task Force shows that a ban
on the use of disposable con-
tainers would in effect result in
employment for 2,435 people; a
net increase in employment of 645
jobs.
A return of the system of
refillable containers would save
the consumer over $7 million.
produce over 600 new jobs, and
have significant environmental
effects. However, the en-
vironment has once more been
sacrificed by the inability of the
Government to come to grips
with this issue and provide any
meaningful recommendations.
If the Government has been
unable to deal with this clear cut
issue in a meaningful way in five
years, what solutions can we
expect from them to more
complex problems. Positive
steps must be taken now for the
elimination of non -returnable
containers through a gradual ban
in favour of re -usable containers.
Third Exeter Lions
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Hensall; Skyway Market in Centralia; Stardust Drive -In in
Crediton.
ANNUAL MEETING
Kirkton Woodham Farmers' Club
COMMUNITY HALL, KIRKTON
Tuesday, 'Feb. 4, 1975
1:30 p.m.
• Election of Officers
• Reports and Discussion of Business
The Management Committee requests all members to at-
tend to discuss expanding fertilizer facilities and warehouse
storage.
President - Raymond Poynter
Sec. Tres. • Ray Stephen
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