42 Terrace Review — Wednesday, January 3, 1990 ~ Recycling revitalized in Terrace ee a Terrace does have a recycling depot and a very active one at that. It recycles non-ferrous metals, batteries, catalytic con- verters, glass and beer and soft drink cans. _ by Betty Barton Owner Harry Sharyk has been in the recycling business in Ter- race for more than eight years now. He started as manager of the Terrace and District Com- munity Services Recycling depot. He ran that for more than three years. Then, when Community Services decided to go out of the recycling business, | he bought them out and opened up on his own. For the past five years, Sharyk has owned and operated Northcoast Metal Re- cycling, behind Finning Tractor on Evergreen St. He says it is called ‘‘metal recycling’’ because metals make up most of his recycling business. He will buy non-ferrous metals (metals not containing iron) or batteries from anyone in the area who wants to sell them. He has the required license to collect batteries for the whole region. The batteries he’s gathered to date are stacked in his storage yard, awaiting trans- port to Vancouver. He says that probably won’t happen until March because the transport truck has to be specially equip- ped to catch any spill from the batteries. And, the transport company may need special licensing as well. Sharyk says battery prices are stable, so he hopes he can stay in that particular sector of recyc- ling and help clean up the en- vironment, He is concerned that many people still take old bat- teries to the dump. All materials recycled through Northcoast are cleaned by the operation before shipping. Beer cans from Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Smithers, Hazelton and Terrace are crushed into squares of aluminum and stacked on pallets weighing one metric tonne. This is done on a contract basis through the Liquor Dis- tribution Branch. Harry does the same thing with soft drink cans, Any glass dropped off at Northcoast Metal Recycling is “‘culled’’ or broken up by hand. It would be too expensive to pur- chase a crushing machine. . He has attempted to recycle cardboard in the past, but ship- ping costs were prohibitive. All Northcoast’s recycleables are crated and shipped to Van- couver for processing. Sharyk is pleased that a re- cycling coalition has ‘been ,_ organized in Terrace. He sees no reason why they can’t go ahead with any plans to educate the community to be more aware of recycling and to. encourage residents to utilize any recycling services that they may be able to- organize. He could then expand . his own business to buy and pro- cess for recycling any materials . they might bring him. At present, Northcoast Metal Recycling employs two residents from Osborne Home and another client of the Ministry of Health, three hours per day, two days per week. His two sons work for him on a full-time basis _and his wife does the bookkeep- ing. Sharyk was a journeyman carpenter for B.C.. Hydro prior to entering the recycling business. He and his family moved north to Prince Rupert in 1973. He’does the ‘‘mechanic’’- ing on the forklift used in his business and on any of the other machinery that might need repairs. He calls himself ‘a jack - of all trades...’ One needs to be 1962 and then on to Terrace in . in his business: Sharyk feels that: eventually - the ‘government will legislate compulsory. recycling. He says, “It will come to that point. Everybody should pay a little re- cycling fee as the product is pro- _duced and sold. Then it can be recycled at no additional cost to the consumer or the govern- ment.” | . , Top executive award nominations open — The Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominations for the . 1990 Business Executive of the Year award. 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