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HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1989
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Garbage concerns ill
Concerns that garbage pick up in Hib-
bert Township is not being taken serious-
ly by township council are ill founded, ac-
cording to Reeve Ivan Norris.
Reeve Norris admitted last week that lit-
tle thought has been given to the idea of
garbage pick up in the township, primari-
ly because the old system of having the
people take their garbage to the dump
themselves appears to be working well. He
noted the landfill site in Hibbert Township
is pretty centrally located, and easily ac-
cessible to Hibbert residents.
Reeve Norris said the township had been
approached by a private contractor for
permission to collect township garbage, but
added that request had been turned down.
"We need to have control over the gar-
bage going into our landfill site," said
Reeve Norris. "We don't want it coming
from all over, because then it's very hard
to police."
Reeve Norris added that if council were
to be swamped by people wanting to have
garbage pickup, then council would have to
reevaluate its stand.
Warren Bennewies however, the private
garbage contractor who was turned down
by council, said Hibbert Township Council
has been made aware of a desire by
residents to have garbage pickup.
"I approached council with a petition
signed by about 35 people, and was told no
one needed the service, and that the peti-
tion was not worth the paper it was writ-
ten on," he said. •
Reeve Norris however, aid Mr. Ben-
newies came alone to the gouncil meeting,
and refused to leave a copy of the petition
behind when it was requested of him.
"If ?" Irl -vant garbage collection,
then I .. should come to council
with their lest," he said. •
Mr. Bennewies noted that council does
not appear to have an open mind where
garbage collection in the township is con-
cerned. He said since his initial request to
collect garbage in Hibbert, council has
thrown a number of roadblocks at him.
"I picked up garbage in the township for
two months, and had 15 customers," he
said, adding others wanted the service, but
were afraid to call for fear of rocking the
boat. "Then I was told council was draf-
ting up a new by-law, so I agreed to stop
picking up garbage for six weeks. After
the six weeks, I was told that I was to be
denied access to the Hibbert landfill site,
and that any contravention of that would
result in the Hibbert Council taking further
action against me."
Mr. Bennewies said he agrees that coun-
cil has a legitimate purpose in regulating
the disposal of waste in the township, but
added he does not understand how it is
against the interest of the ratepayers to let
an agent take their garbage for them to
the landfill site.
"What happened to free enterprise?," he
asked. "I think council is worried that I'll
bring garbage in from other areas, but
'why would I risk future income by doing
founded
that? I'd have my licence revoked by the
Ministry of the Environment. I already
have permission to collect garbage hi the
townships of Logan, Grey, McKillop,
Tuckersmith and Hulled, and I haven't had
any problems. I'm just starting into this,
so I don't want to do anything to jeopar-
dize any future income. The garbage is
theirs (the residents) and they have a
right to get it to •the landfill site any way
they feel."
There is currently no garbage pick up in
Hibbert Township, except in the Police
Village of Dublin and of the large dump-
ster boxes located around the township.
The Hibbert landfill site is open two days
a week - Saturday for general township
use, and Mondays for the Police Village of
Dublin and for the dumpster boxes. Rib-
bert township has advocated volunatary
recycling for some time now, and has in-
itiated a blue box program in the Police
Village of Dublin and a blue bag program
in the rest of the township. It has also
recently put in place new guidelines which
make it mandatoryfor all Muenster users
to recycle. But since that is hard to police,
the township has levied dumpster .users
with a $50 fine, which helps to offset the
cost of having the landfill site open on
Mondays for their use. Until how the police
village of Dublin has been paying for the
Monday opening.
It's not fair to the Police Village of
Dublin to have to pay for the Monday
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