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more thanpolarize the in- bottles. This was a key 4 disposable cartons, that will billion' kilowatt hours-. This • estimated that 1,749 jobs '
Cin December 19th, the ever is, sufficient to heat would be lost by a ban, the
three volume report of the dustry acid consumer in- r e c o r m e nd a t i o n when include cans, ;bottles, and energy
terests. Since the business of compared to the others but.. plastic containers. Today, 25;500 average, sized Ontario .analysis of the Task Force
Environment Ministry's ��' ' � homes for a year and this.shows that a ban' on the use
Solid Waste Task Force was the Task Force and the one which was rejected �by this so-calleda. strong .
• tabled in the Legislature by
Working Groups were" Willi -am ° Newman. Alsoa leadership has sparked degree of, . -energy cdn of disposable containers
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•• Environment Minister decided by majority vote, , rejected was the reeom Environmea.t Minister sumption would be valued at would in effect result—i'n
n. The Main "the composition on the mendation that the deposit William Newman to merely 32.3 million. u employment for 2,435 ,
William Newman. The ideal environmental
subject of the detailed report . groups was very significant. price for•beer containers be ban the flip -top on non- people; ,a net increase in
theproblem f In fact the " Beverage increased from. -the present2 returnable ,cans, along with solution, would be to employment of 645 jobs.
ust how much waste is g „
• contained seven
dand what canbe tatives from related The one recommendation refillable
centres on pro eXn o , eliminate waste at 1 its.
Packaging Group which cents to encourage an even sitting d'own with industry ,to, 4 .
caused by throwaway o es thin s ""that'we do not really A
and cans w a n tion refi lab containers. g y refillable ' containers would * * * * * * *M* * * •* * * * '>k'�i * ' *' '*
done to encourage the use of beverage industries and " adopted which requires Solid Waste in Ontario now use such' ' ...,as excess • U
three consumer represen- response from the beverage exceeds six million tons per packaging, and replace save- the consumer .over $7
returnable bottles. � � million,. produce over 600
`While'~ the facts in the ' tatives were unable to. agree industry is that the pull tab ,year. Garbage"dis 1 costs things that are 'discarded,
h after cSne use with things
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) source. Th is oto et rid of � '
b ttl t d represen greater return of the bottles encourage them to use g ��'�1�1rt�r°o�.-
A return of the system of ]i.
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new" jobs, � and •ha've
report make 'clear the need on anything except that the on- cans be phased out over
for a ban on non -refillable 16 recommendations it ' did the next twelve months. The
bott.lesl and cans, no strong offer would be inadequate in cans themselves, however,.
recommendations were themselves ' to produce a would not be banned. The
made because of'the greater substantial improvement in fact that this was the only
number of industry the availability of returnable rec-omrnendation which
representatives over con- bottles. -Howeveir, • an ap- - required any action from the
sumer and environmental proach. was made to,�, ,.•,king beverage indu's lny' is even
returnable bottles' ; °e�k, More sr nificent when -one
representatives on the Task � .,
in -
Force.
available to the public: considers the `fact that • The Provincial Task Force
was formed back in the fall
of 1972, to look at-- the
problems of solid waste and environmentally harmful days after the Task Force
the then Minister of the and that "any, switch from Report was made public, the
Environment, James Auld the use of non -refillable soft Continental Can Company of
asked that it concentrate on drink, .bottles and -cans to Canada Ltd., announced a
the. packaging of . milk, refillable bottles is beneficial new type of ,flip top can that
carbonated soft drinks and . to the environment". - is opened by a foil strip that
alcoholic and .other ' . The Solid Waste Task remains attached to the can.
Beverages: These problems
Force r e c o m m e n,d e d. Also recommended and
'were seen as the most adoption of the Working adopted , was that - Waste
pressing sc.lid • .waste Group reports. The report' of 'Management Advisory
problems in the-Province°at the Milk Packaging Working Board ' •be established to
the time. Group •was• tabled in, the provide a permanent (group
,_: .._.M,._, e -Legislature months ago The to look at the broaden psues
Beverage Packaging-T_,r.e,p.o t. _„•.a f .. --rh-e-..'B'ey-e.r.a•ge wht€1r,liad e- caped. tTi ,.-•wbrt�..-'.'_ _- _
What, the finding' of the dustry was already working
report do show, is -that non- on thfs question. On
refillable ° containers are December 2 -2nd, only three
the taxpayers of t e si nificant environmental
Province $100 niillion per., that can be re -used many g
year. In '1972, the composite times over. A switch from effects, However, the en -
beverage industry, generated the throwaway can aid v'ironment ' has once more
an estimated 241,846 tons or Mottle to the returnable been sacrificed by the
waste at a cost to the tax- contakiner would provide an" inability of the Government
payer. of $3,869,000. The excellent example. to come to grips with this
estimated waste amounted In 'its inability to act on issue, and provide. •any
to 6.76 percent of, the the question of' non- meaningful r e c o m -
•mendations.
estimated 3,757,000 tons of returnable containers for the _ _.,.,
solid waste collected by last five years, the ''Gover= If the Government " has
municipalities in that ,year. nmernt has done nothing • been unable to deal with this
Further, different surveys more than intensify the clear cut issue in a ,
show beverage containers to ,problem. It has created the meaningful way , in five
situation which would result ears, what solutions can we
make up between 9 percent Y
and 33 percent of total litter: .in employment disruption expect from them to more
in Ontario, at an estimatedand make a ban more dif- complex problems.Positive
cost• for collection anywhere 'ficult. k stems must be taken now for
from $834,005 to $ 13,168,500. ,
In 1972,, the total °energy
consumption connected. with
the_f manufacture and
disposal of- primary con-
-
tainers amounted to 3..233
Working Group and the Milk' Packing .Working. Group • of the :Solid Waste Task
Packaging •Working Group. .Produced 16 recoi'n- Force. The other adopted
were formed to study these mendations of which the re`c'ommen.dations dealt
issues. ,However, half of the Government has accepted ' merely with, • "urging" or
members of the Solid Waste 14'. The first re -corn- "encouraging" soft drink
Task Force were ,. mendation of the Group was companies ,to promote the
representatives of the in- that, where soft 'drinks were sale of refillable 'containers.terested industries and .the. being, sold; they . must be These recommendations will
industry. representatives available in refillable :con- do nothing to encourage the
further outnumbered con- tainers as well as throwaway use, of returnable bottles -'but
sumer and . envionrri'ental containers. This would make will merely force the ventor -
group representatives ori the sure that consumers had a who now does sell retur-
two working group's by two fair choice ' in the market rabies to be more. regulated:
to one. . place;"' since it is extremely than before. •
The,, representation on .,difficult today to find a
.... .......,._wKi retail In effect, while • the Con -
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these groups did nothing outlet who stocks returnable servative Government
themselves • havedefined -
m non -returnable containers as
j��E � problem, �` roble, •they have. not
a
- * taken any action to deal with
411M P the- problem in the last four
years.
It' was' back, in 49,70-, 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
on the amount or garbage.
_ Strong leadership will -be
_ 42• taken in this°• field so that we -
El cut . down as much as
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Force has also studied this ret.rrnable cdntainers
question of employment through a gradual ban in
dis•rtrption by a ban on non favor of re -usable con -
returnable bottles. While the tainers.
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