Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnick of ref puss saturday May 13, 1972 13 garbage disposal becoming major. Expensive problem by Peter Leichnitz Canadian press staff writer most canadians forget about As soon As it hits the trash can is becoming a major and expensive problem for Urban centres across the country. Canadians in a Normal Day Jeraye an average of four or five pounds of waste each. And the amount is growing. Last year canadians Dis carded old cars 10 million used tires 2.8 billion bottles 4.8 billion cans three million tons of paper nine million tons of i n d u s trial waste and Home garbage and 330 million tons of waste Rock and Ash. Old methods of disposal Are becoming inadequate to Han dle the increasing amount of waste and City officials Are finding themselves hard pressed for methods of disposal. A Cross Canada Survey by the Canadian press shows some cities studying new and in some instances Radical Means of dealing with the problem. Two cities were beset with other metropolitan Toronto s to ionized workers went on strike 10 in a dispute Over wages bringing to a halt All collection of garbage and refuse disposal in the City. Residents packed garbage in Ottawa helps Toronto up the Feder Al government and Canadian record manufacturers have be come partners in a scheme to promote Canadian musicians and their music. An Ottawa news release said wednesday Secretary of state Gerard Pelletier had announced the government would contrib Ute to the project. The Canadian recording Man fac association has put up total Cost of the project called Maple Leaf junket which win bring is Many As 100 writers editors broadcasters producers an d film makers Fri flip 14 european countries to Canada is estimated at close to a. News Here wednesday to announce details it the project Ritchie Yparke pop r columnist who. Originated the idea and is coordinator of the event said the difference will probably be made up through Sale of tickets to con and possible release to theatres of a film of the con certs. A five concerts Are scheduled Between june 2 and 8 for the Benefit of the visiting Europe ans but will reopen to the pub Lic. The first two in Montreal will be French language concerts details of which Are to be announced at a news conference there monday. A English language concert will be presented in the same City june 5. Performed at the place Des arts it will feature the poppy family Andre gag Moe Koffman Frank Anne Murray the Stam Peders and tapestry. On june 6, the first of two concerts at Massey Hall in Toronto will feature Gary Bruce Cockburn the Perth county conspiracy Fergus Christopher Kearney Murray and the Mercey Brothers. Taking part in the june 7 concert will be april wine Chiu Wack crowbar Edward Bear fludd Lighthouse and Mas Makhan. The performers were selected by an Independent Talent com Mittee made ii of retailers broadcasters and journalists. Some record company exec lives said wednesday that some of the performers they record going to Europe after junket As part of. Follow up promotion. Or Yorke said that of 100 europeans invited 70 have positively said they Are coming Trade observers from the United states have also been invited. In addition to the concerts the guests while in Montreal will attend a screening of Cana Dian films. A final dinner in Toronto at the Royal York hotel will be attended by Pierre Juneau chairman of the Canadian radio television commission and other govern ment officials we Hokl 1? out Bone Steak 1 of Impf so idd Kwh buy o n 5.95 v motor both me Phillips h notre Dame next week the 3rd edition Rev. Room to in she Harazad exotic Jamboree Friday saturday afternoons from Coloret looking for new disc Ever. Have Talent sing dance play o Ond want to be discovered cali.586.a22i must for reservations or information phone 338-0334 four we mint to a trials dates still available plastic bags and took it to collection areas set aside in Ity Parks. That strike was settled May 8. In Vancouver civic workers went on strike april 27, Leav my the City without garbage pickup municipal Maine Lance Crews and a number of ther services. The major Cost of current disposal and for collection and transportation. Jean Arpin director of waste disposal for Montreal says 60 to 70 per cent of the City s budget for. Garbage disposal to cover collection and transportation costs. Ross Clark of the Toronto works commission says the collection and disposal of Gar Bage in Toronto is one of the biggest Consumers of tax Money except for Toronto which spends million annually for garbage collection and disposal has even studied a plan to ship garbage by rail outside the City. Landfill the most widely used method of waste disposal involves dumping the garbage and covering it with Earth. The system however is not without faults. Decaying garbage produces methane Gas and there is the danger of explosion. There is also the danger of water pollution from rain. Water draining through the Landfill site into nearby lakes and Rivers. In addition As Landfill Sites be come full new. Locations Are becoming increasingly More difficult to find. In recent years Landfill Sites have become More than just a dumping place for Gar Bage. Foresight in planning has resulted in useful land once the location is my. K Roy Petty rendezvous room dinner with Grace . . M Sal. The Organ Ellett . 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Incineration of garbage has raised the Wrath of crusaders against air pollution. In most cities Only certain types of garbage now Are burned. The Quebec Urban Community is building a new million incinerator near Quebec City designed to serve the needs of about 25 suburban communities. It will be equipped with a device to keep pollution to a minimum. Many experts believe Recy cling eventually will eliminate much of the country s waste disposal problem. Recycling basically is the conversion of waste material into useful products. D. H. Beck of contain a Way Calgary a con Tainer recycling company says recycling is still in its infancy and As in Industry is still full of problems. There was a. Financial problem be cause of the Cost of Assem bling and transporting the products to be recycled in addition to the Cost of reprocess ing. 1 he predicts however that _ within a decade a few areas will tic left untouched by the recycling process. Paper and Glass containers already Are being collected in Manor major cities for Recy cling on a regular basis. In Toronto City Hall announced earlier this it would use Only recycled paper from now Ontario provincial government says it is considering a similar move. Bell Canada is using a new Type of Ink in its Telephone directories to allow them to be recycled. The Quebec government under the auspices of environment minister Victor Gold Bloom is preparing a White paper on garbage disposal re cycling and pollution control. The report is expected to be ready in june. Erik j. Jensen of the Al Bera research Council has designed a system of garbage removal using a network of pipelines. Garbage would be encased and then pumped through the pipeline at speeds up to 60 Miles an hour to out lets outside a City. Or. Jensen says the system would be Able to handle every Type of garbage except old car bodies. In British Columbia the provincial government has instituted a program to rid the province of junk cars through the use of two Mobile Auto crushers. The crushers travel about the province crushing old cars for recycling by smelters. In Vernon b.c., last year the City opened a Spray irrigation Plant using liquid waste to irrigate land which previously was Only fit for Sage there now Are 80 acres of Alfalfa and 70 acres of Grassland under irrigation. The project involves pumping secondary treated effluent on the land instead of into nearby Okanagan Lake. Gladstone truck pay less 775-4545 fit for a Queen and her King Southern Fried Chicken or roast sirloin of beef 1 Iii Clvde . Desert compute dinner open sunday from i . To 12. Midnight ma1idi Girias ii stauriant u1 Portage licenced premises pm. 943-j774 i on her. Day of mob out chomps Chicken and rib House on Mother s Day Mikkin food Kentucky my Chi Kurt Mic Culong Waltring ipod tribe. Whole family. Chicken and rib House Sherbrook no Trot Dame no june 2 and 3 . Centennial concert h All tickets now on Sale at Ato Eaton s downtown Polo Park and Lombard concourse special guest artist John Allen Cameron municipalities across the country use different methods of collecting and disposing of their trash. But All have one thing in Are expensive. St. Johns nfld., spends about a year to col Lect the tons of garbage its residents discard each is at a Landfill site near the City. Charlottetown collects about tons of garbage annually at a Cost of about the garbage is burned. Halifax which Burns its garbage at an incinerator spends about a year to collect the tons of trash. Gerald Mader a works Engineer says the City is look ing for a Landfill site. Saint John n.b., employs 70 men to collect and dispose of the City s garbage at a Cost of a year. About 75 per cent of the trash is used As sanitary Landfill and the remainder is burned. Winnipeg about tons of garbage which is burned in the City s incinerator. Suburbs until recently dumped garbage As. Landfill but several have recently started using Winnipeg s Cine Rator. Regina last year collected tons of trash at a Cost of about Revenue from charges to commercial firms and charges to vehicles entering Landfill areas amounted to Edmonton collected tons of waste in 1971 at a Cost of a ton. William Warton of the City s sanitation department says disposal was by the land fill method. The filled Sites Are re claimed for Parkland. We even put a Little ski Fiill on the City also operates a Transfer station where Gar Bage is screened magnetically for metals before it is crushed and trucked to the Landfill Sites. Calgary spent an estimated million in 1971 collecting and disposing of its tons of waste. The City has four Landfill Sites three of which Are inside the City Lim its. I. A. Khan in charge of plants and sanitation for the garbage department said we Are always studying new methods of disposal but have shied away from them be cause they have proved too the greater Vancouver regional District began an 18 month study of garbage collection and disposal last fall. The amount collected in the greater Vancouver area totals tons annually. Most of the trash now is used for Landfill. The City of Van Couver is studying other meth ods of disposal such As incineration grinding bailing and crushing. Monterey dance Pavilion for weddings banquets Ftp. Sat. Mon. Thum. Cornet of 6 Lyon new phone no. 888-1890 277 Sherbrook St. South enjoy Indian Gusine at its Best with background music of Ravi Shankar and Bis Milla Khan fully Lac Neil open 5 . Times thru Sun. 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