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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-01-30, Page 13•� 4 /44 O People' ,differ in their ideas ' Stage 1,, T1)e, bus gets Alf as to how development of a to work in 1Q minutes. -Stage product is conducted. Some 2. Alf buys a car and gets to believe it results from a series work in 5 minutes. Stage 3. of brain waves. Fei`i, realize Others buy cars. Now it takes how „pinch hard work %id him 15, minutes to get to the trial. and error go into' a new .,office. The bus now takes 25 result. minutes and the • fare has been O f l ate years a new doubled. Stage 4. Everyone dimension has ' appeared in has a , car, The buses are industrial "planning called withdrawn. It takes Alf and `Social Cost". Its advent his friends 30 minutes tot get ' means the researcher or to the office. developer must li,consider the Self -i riterest caused 9 this reaction his - new product will mess, but it will need a have'. on •the life of the ,,GENERAL decision to'' elxisting' society. For example 'abandon ` the car, or �a tax on the social cost of the newest each car -commuter to pay the detergents was that the social costs -of • the neighbours. kitchen might become -one N We have got to Woo nature, huge soap- iu•bble, while the "noty d o m i riato her. ,Rafe' working of• the local sewage technology must give place to disposal plapt was ruined. The seduction technology. social costs of transportation Spaceship Earth may have too are air pollution; sprawling big a crew, or at least, too freeways, congestion qf cities great concentrations . of crew, and slaughter 9P the yet the problem is not too highways. The, airport has cost many people, but too - many 'the neighbourhood in noise. people multiplied by too These examples of modem many expectations for the 'progress' ' demonstrate h'ow good life. fraught it is with promise and Is an extra_ person a gain perils hope a.Qd- _haz.arsl. It is or a loss to the community if fine to produce some " one counts the social cost of revolutionary idea, but will it.his house, his,, toads, the be compatible with the status _ school, the hospital beds he quo? This is the' question the . needs, the ° police to protect modern developer has to ask ,him, the annoyance of his car himself. • going • on holiday, the noise of Just consider for a moment- aircraft` he travels. in, the the croppers our technological trucks that bring him his `progress' has , come. The food, Kariba Dam was to form the Let us relax by looking at biggest man-made , lake: Now a specific • industry with an vast areas of its surface have unsolved social cost problem: become weed -choked. Industry does not exist yet to utilize its • vast hydro -electric power potential and by ,the time it does, the lake may be silted up and the dam useless. The U.S.A. alone has ' 2,000 silted -up dams; all the, result ofb failure . to ` compensate nature. , The vast Punjab irrigation system; Britain's parting gift to that province, , is' .now leaching out the saltand concentrating it on. '',tile - surface of the land which the canals were intended to irrigate... Result: Areas where nothing will grow. . Pesticides, like DDT, upset- which society will have to the q balance of: nature, but dispose. • paradoxically ' `harmless' In 1966, 46 million .tons chemicals can he more of containers and packaging :dangerous and[[._; Q.,d+�. a ` . ore,.1�.: n?ateriials were produced 'in 14'' iN4.-•",kT %.iiV�.'M M.• . . a •-F •�' damage to . o,.envii onnre than. °, e Uhitledti :States. This is pesticides. ,.- Fertilizers for V only 12 percent of the 350 instance; used to extract more million tons of solid waste food from the soil. These are -w as h -ed into ._ streams and lakes, kill the - fish and stimulate the growth of algae -to unnatural .proportions. This robs the water of oxygen which would otherwise digest the sewage 'pumped into it: The wonder drugs possess a sting too. . .Constant indiscriminate use produces drug-resistant strains like pseudomonas,. a hospital -bred organism with an 80 percent kill rate once it takes hold.' ' We have got to stop thinking of ' science as ' a .friendly giant - that can be sent off to the frontjers to conic back with . trea ure.. The ues on \ ;A' �0 18 �ei�: ` i,ill\ Qprk, \ bu,1',ii o wean \ t to wdrk? We' `are going to have TH E BLUE.' THUMB • BY Q. Mac ,EOD 13O$$ THE . CONAINER INDUSTRY ., An interesting •example for more detailed examination is -the container industry which, makes all- manner of containers in .glass, metal, paper and plastic. Having postulated such 'an- industry, it will Qbe: ' easily seen what a tremendous potential its, has for creating a huge disposal problem. Here are some statistics: While containers will continue to increase the convenience 0, they offer the consumer, their disposal will mean an - Everest sized mountain of solid waste, of to choose NOT to do things that' are well within our abilities. In our new system; account must be taken of "the effects on the principals, on everyone and on the environment. -Consider how the automobile - .has . killed rail passenger service or even bus service. We know that to our cost in isolated Ooderich. Ice -Nicks '69 -Feb. 28 - Mardi 1 :generated annua.ly by residential, commercial and indiistrjal activities. In eight years time the figure will be 64 million tons and the per capita packaging products will rise from 466 pounds - to 558 pounds per annum. Based on the population differential, you can call these figures, respectively,- per ybar for Canada 4.6 million tons;' 35. million tons and 6.4 million tons. ,dearly the social 'cost of modern packaging is its indisposability. 'This is ' ' the cross the container industry bears and hopes to solve. Containers and packages must be durable to survive the market place, yet they should be disposable, so that they will not survive to plague mankind. • There is no doubt that waste disposaltoday. is archaic. No one knows • that better than a town like Goderich, where the dump is a near plague spot; so much so that ' attempts are now being made to - - find other • Means of dtspina.--`Tb` *d o everyone's worries, ,it is estimated - that by 1976. all con taine;s will be non -returnable and the total number of beverage containers produced will have . been doubled. .w Suppose, instead of banning non -returnable containers, the government decides to ` tax them. You ' can • see ' Mr. McNaughton licking \ his lips already; a new source of fu n d s -ft; r •the Provincial government to-tncontrd1'.' Z'o"l•.ei -At present three quarters of our solid waste is deposited in -.. open •dumps. ' Sometimes it is bumed, but this merely adds to air pollution. There is no processing, no treatment, no disposability known, and the `degradability characteristics of containers are academic. Bum and you pollute% the air; 'dump and it becomes land ,pollutiAo is Landfill is no ..panacea, because much of our solid waste resists degradation • in soil, and some of landfill's .end :, uses are con truction or • park development, both of which are thwarted by slow degradation. -. Some communities- have experimented with loading their garbage into railway trucks and hauling it " great distances to derness areas'. But even wildertess- areas are guarded, and rightly so, by. conservationists and defenders of our wild life. Open spaces are not truly open use areas! Only schools -arid roads cost the nation more than garbage collection - and dispos Fe, and while the solution for small communities seems hopeless, largely because of the high.' cost ,of transpoirtation' and .dandling, tll,ere .does seem to be some hope for 'the large concentrations. How can some profit incentive be found to 'ease the expenrse', of disposal? The optimum solution would be to • form solid waste into newly useful products such as bitilding blocks, fertilizers, ground covers, oil emulsifiers, preservatives, liquid peat; whilst recovered ferrous and non-ferrous metals and minerals would add to the value of these new products. The US. Bureau of Mines ' estimates that ferrous and non-ferrous materials to be outd 1n'.. 'municipal " waste would be worth five billion dollars. This sounds like a gold nugget for someone, especially when you follow the estimators still further, when, they: tell you there is $10 billion available 'r in all wastes, with only a -cost. of $3 billion in collection 'and disposal, or "shall we say, conversion . charges. The fallacy here seems to be the fact that unfortunately all this waste is spread over a huge area; consequently inc1ividual concerns r would only hope to make a profit if they located close to huge cities, and therefore concentrations. Thus having runthe proble all round" ,Robin- Hood's rn, we end up ' with the ad isson that there seems to be .no immediately. ,satisfactory solution on the horizon. All we have Yearned . is that libu ming and landfilling are regarded as little 'worse- than open sores. Ip this ingenious age we may be sure that when the cancer becomes acute, someone will arise with an answer which cancels' ojt the social cost. Meanwhile we can dream of . such methods as have gained some popularity of late, such as breeding a species of Huron eagle which • will scavenge -fox us, ,just as the eagles do in the East. Has Council considered such a solution? It would leave tins and glass clean so that a glass browing , industry -could be PSI- Announce. Rate Increase In April Physicians' Services Inc. subscriber groups have been advised that their subscription • rates will be increased next April, for the first time in nearly four and one-half years. The new rates are approximately 46 per cent higher than present rates, which became effective December, 1, 1964. New rates for the comprehensive Blue Plan, which covers the Majority, of P.S.I. subscribers, will be $5,7 5 .,for. single subscribers, Who now pay. $3.90; $1,3.75 for subscribers with one dependant, who now pay $x.40 and $19:40 for subscribers with more than one dependant, who now pay $13.2:5 .:Comparable._ .rates for the Brown Plan, which covers medical services in hospital only, are $2.5(444.00 and $7.85. "P.S.I. cover . approximately 1,500,000 Ontario residents ,under group .,contracts with employers. In post cases employers pay at least half the cost of subscriptions. In a 'letter to subscriber groups, C. A. ` Bond, secretary -treasurer of P.S.I. said the new rates reflect the actual cost of providing medical care. with less than five cents of each, subscription dollar being used for administration. Among reasons given for the increase were the addition of .new and costly ' benefits demanded by subscribers, tItb increased use of medical services, the higher cost of physicians' care and the development of new and expensive methods- of investigation and treatment of illness. ° • ' • Mr. Bond said that during the past several months P.S.I. has h been paying out approximately one million .dollars, a month more . than its subscription - income. By, March, under the existing rates, the reserve fund necesary ' to maintin the corporation's financial stability_ will be well - below the establisheg' requirement. 4, F started, 'turning out beautiful multioloured gifts:- doves, dolphins, stallions and even b?avers; all froln the many hued types of glass used in the liquor trade, The tins would be hydraulically pressed into cubes. and .loaded. Ti» _to.ships for use in the. steel -making' factories of Hamilton. All you have' to do is to show how a profilt can bemade from garbage and the�-�'problem. is solved' and thecontainer industry can sleeptohth#cosily in its beds again.. * * *little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is certainly a philosophical truth, and it is well illustrated. ' by the scientists who never before have wielded so much power 1 308 HURON RD. RADIO TV -- APPLIANCES GQPER:ICU(14 +I•$ AI , Iwo James Rii RictiardsOn Serving The Food NOW'S of► t+ l PHONP, 5248388,. , .ODEIPCO ` T 1E "HANDCR COLOR TELEVU FOR: GREATER.. DEPE'NOABU °I ( The experience of 27' y s in electronics service has proven` meta when en ou -. hveat' any ani .nt' o one :. h Y �... �, Money in�a colpr TV you should not consider th price but theaquality,y No one scan deny the quality of Zenith color TV and you can have one for the same or only a slight amount more • than other makes of sets,- See ZENITH At with so little justification. It all goes to . support . the long forgotten o'adage: . 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