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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Hensall's students hopping for healthy hearts
Hensall fundraiser — The students at Hensall
Public School held a Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser
June I0.Above senior kindergarten student Braeden
McNaughton hula hoops, while at middle Grade 4
student Makailah McBride skips and, right, Grade 1
student Calvin Shanks also hula hoops for the cause.
(photos/Nina Van Lieshout)
Communities in Bloom
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that you discard, or unfortunately, nothing at
all. If you don't consider the benefits of recy-
$pi fa y(*Iv cling, by discarding items into the landfill
nothing happens to the items you discard.
Your garbage becomes buried in a huge hole
cut into the earth where it remains buried in the ground in exactly
the same state you left it for decades, possibly forever.
What happens when the hole gets full?
Another hole must be dug, farther out from the first, and so on,
and so on, until finally there is no more space to dig another hole.
Some day the next hole may be just a stone's throw from your own
back yard. But if you consider recycling with the blue box system,
the items you discard will find new life by becoming some other
useful product and the need to dig new holes will decrease. Here
are a few examples:
Aluminum cans are recycled again and again. The metal is melt-
ed and re -cast to make new aluminum cans, CD's and even passen-
ger jets!
Clear "PET" plastic such as from water bottles is recycled into
polar fleece fabric, carpeting, rope, car bumpers and household fur-
nishings.
Glass is also a multi -recycled product. It is made back into new
bottles and jars, fiberglass insulation, reflective signage and high -
traction road surfaces.
Paper from household use is recycled into newspapers, boxboard
such as cereal boxes, egg cartons, ceiling tiles, wall board and plant
bedding trays.
Steel is recycled into steel food cans, but is also made into struc-
tural steel, chains, pipes and car parts.
High density plastic is remade into picnic tables, deck chairs,
flower pots and watering cans.
Boxboard is recycled back into boxboard and also can be found in
roof shingles.
Perhaps after reading this recycling information, you will now
search for a blue box when you are fmished with that water bottle!
Electronic garbage
Bluewater Recycling Association has implemented an E -Waste
Program for proper disposal of electronic equipment such as com-
puters. These electronic items can be returned to Bluewater
Recycling depot for a reasonable fee which will keep them out of
the landfill.
Hazardous waste can be sent to the Exeter Water Department
shop, located at 82 Nelson Street in Exeter on Sat., Sept. 6 where it
can be dealt with in an environmentally safe manner; keeping it out
of the landfill, thereby eliminating the contamination of the area.
Proper use of landfill site
Specific items for disposal are accepted at the Exeter Landfill dur-
ing operating hours free of charge. Items include clean wood, com-
postable materials, fill clay, topsoil or mixed soil, metal and
propane tanks. Items of a large nature: List includes only furniture
- sofas, chairs, tables, mattresses, TV's, computers and appliances -
stoves, microwaves, dishwashers, and refrigerators and freezers
(which must be certified freon-free). These items must be separat-
ed and the attendant on duty will direct you to the individual collec-
tion sites on location.
Let's all do our part and RECYCLE!!
Have you ever thought what happens to that
plastic bottle or aluminum pop can after you
throw it away? There are many possible
For the cause — Megan Dalrymple holds up the 14 inches of hair she had cut by
Kim Scott at Cuts Plus in Exeter June 12 that will be donated to the Canadian Cancer
Society. Megan and her sister Lindsay raised $310 for the Relay for Life that they took
part in on the weekend with their grandmother on the Scotia Bank team. (photo/Pat
Bolen)
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