Terrace Review —- Wednesday, October 9, 1991

Business help
needed to help
recycling survive

Some local operations are already
on line, according to Schooner.
Canada Safeway, for example,
saves about 10 tons of cardboard
per month. The Pepsi distributor
has agreed to buy back all or their
pop cans collected by the recycling
depot. And there’s the city, who
Schooner said is "slowly" coming
on line.

Schooner said the society has
applied to Canada Manpower for a
grant to hire two public education
workers. These workers, he
explains, will design a business-
oriented presentation to encourage
local participation. With an educa- ;
tion program in place, and local | Thank-you fo all who supported 4-H through your interest and

business willing to participate, said .
Schooner, the recycling business attendance ai our auction.

Scott Schooner: An uphill will one day become a business in A special thanks to auctioneer Leo De Jong!
battle, its own right while helping to keep

; the environment clean at the same
by Tod Strachan time.

At a recent Terrace and District
Chamber of Commerce luncheon a

new trend began. Every second or [Elections .
third month, Chamber president | British Columbia gg

Sharon Taylor told those present, :
they will hear a presentation from

a local business.

One of the speakers appearing at
the Chamber’s last meeting, in
keeping with the new policy, was
Scott Schooner representing the
city’s Recycling Advisory Com-
mission. His message: recycling
can work, but only with the par-
no 5 ticipation of local businesses.

a Schooner told Chamber members
that the Skeena Valley Recycling
Society was registered in February
and on April 6 opened their doors
to local businesses and the general
public. Maintaining the operation,
however, is still an up hill battle.
He explained that Skeena Valley
Recycling operates primarily as a
drop-off centre for recyclable
materials, but collecting paper and
cardboard from local businesses
was the only way they could turn
their business into a profit-making
venture.

Schooner said they accept all
recyclable materials but pointed
out they are vulnerable in a fledg-
ling market. Glass, for example,
was worth $65 a ton when they
first opened their doors, but now
it’s difficult to give away. Also,
there is no market at the present
time for steel cans; those are being
stock piled as well. At one time,
brokers offered to pay $52 a ton
for newsprint and free collection if
a depot collected a’ minimum of

- 300 tons per year. That offer,
however, has since been with-
drawn.

These are the simple facts of life,
said Schooner, and they leave the
recycling industry in a bit of a
dilemma. But local businesses and
industry can help by sorting their
recyclable materials and offering
them to operations such as Skeena

-~ Valley Recycling. He adds that
sorting recyclable materials doesn’t
have to become. a - business
expense. Most businesses have

people on staff interested enough
in recycling they will volunteer to
do the job. "This works fairly
well,” said Schooner.

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There will be an important difference in this Provincial General Election.

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