Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 05, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page a5 Winnipeg repress. Com Manitoba Winnipeg free press sunday october 5, 2008 a 5 200 Princess St. 667 0000 m Anit bans dropped off close to 700,000 kilograms of old computers unwanted televisions and other e waste at province wide depots this summer double the amount of electronic trash collected last year. The provinces 28 depots closed at the end of september and so far they ave tallied 477,000 pkg of e waste. Green Manitoba waste reduction program manager Jim Ferguson said he expects to add More than 200,000 pkg More e waste to the final amount when All depot counts come in compared to about 310,000 pkg last year. Certainly awareness and interest by the Public to ensure that these products Are managed properly is on the increase throughout the province he said. The program included 23 one Day collection events As Well As drop offs in 22 communities. Forty two Semi trailer loads of waste have been sent to Sims recycling solutions in Brampton ont., and Ferguson expects close to 20 More Semi loads to handle All the waste. All processing happens in North America he said. Staff at syr tech industries packed up yet another trailer at the drop off depot Friday surrounded by shrink wrapped towers of televisions computer monitors and other electronics. Old tvs make up the bulk of the waste said employee Rose Sagness like the massive 196 Pound Sony Model sitting at the Bottom of a pile. Microwaves monitors printers and computers Are next on the list and Many in the syr tech lot looked relatively new. After three months they re out of Date said Sagness. The company saves some drop off items for movie Crews that occasionally come by for period pieces like an old wooden general electric radio that appeared in this years Roundup. T he free e waste round up ran from May 1 to sept. 30. Last year the provincial government announced plans for a stewardship program to handle e waste which could include levies on new electronics. The province hoped to have the program in place by this fall but a spokesperson said plans Are still in the works and would not provide information on the programs status this week. Lindsey. Wiebe free press. My. Ca he defended dog the Bounty Hunter at a press conference announcing the shamed n word utter res to show comeback. He rallied to keep Polar bears off the endangered species list in the u. S. His Congress of racial Equality civil rights group honoured George w. Bushes right hand Man Karl Rove on one Martin Luther King or. Day and a High interest payday loan company executive on another. Now niger Innis is coming to Winnipeg on monday to talk about higher Energy prices and the resulting War on the poor. Higher Energy prices disproportionately Impact Low income families and. Innis believes this War on the poor is one of the most important civil rights issues of modern times according to the Western based pro business advocacy group that invited him. The Frontier Centre simply believes he has something interesting to say and decided to invite him Frontier Media spokesman Gary Slywchuk said in an e mail. Innis is also speaking in Regina and Calgary and has spoken across the u. S. Blaming environmentalists who want to limit new Oil development for rising Energy costs. At a news conference in Colorado Springs co. In March Innis announced the formation of the Industry supported Colorado Consumers for affordable Energy a group that says environmental regulation hurts the poor by increasing Energy costs. Inniss visit a week before the Canadian Federal election has environmentalists Here wanting to ask him questions. My question for or. Innis is whether he considers subsidies from the u. S. And Canadian governments to Oil producers Are also part of the War on the poor said Gaile Whelan Enns director of Manitoba wild lands. She said tax dollars Cut from poverty literacy and other social programs Hurt the poor while subsidies to Oil producers Benefit the Rich and Hurt the environment. Carol. Sanders free press. My. Ca e waste collection double last years by Lindsey Wiebe tons of old electronics brought to 28 depots controversial rights activist Speaks in City by Carol Sanders Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press employee Rose Sagness sorts through piles of old tvs computers microwave ovens and More at drop off Centre on Gomez Street near Higgins Avenue. A 05_ oct 05 08. Ind a5 1 0/ 4/ 08 7 40 17 pm ;