C2 - Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 12, 1991

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Scouts’ efforts both more efficient FAST
and more profitable. Alcan has FOREST
also offered to barge the crushed FACTS
cans to its recycling plant at | sponsored by
Annacis Island. Currently market i n
PAPER RECYCLING AT SKEENA - Skeena Jr. Secondary students spearheaded paper recycling price for used beverage cans is 40 Canadian Wome 1
in the schools and in the community last year. This year, the project had expanded to local cents per pound. About 26 cans In HWMDel

businesses dropping off their office paper refuse at Skeena for sorting and shipping to Vancouver.

Here, the recycling committee takes students from othe

centre in the basement at Skeena.

r area schools on a tour of their recycling

Youth environmental conference held

by Betty Barton

In April, local students and
teachers held their first Environ-
mental Conference at Skeena Sec-
ondary School, sponsored by the
Terrace & District Teachers’ Asso-
ciation. More than 30 students
from Grade 4 and up participated
in organizing and resource-sharing
to encourage social change regard-
ing the environment.

Their first project as 4 group was
to organize an Earth Day display
in the Skeena Mail to celebrate the
2ist anniversary of Earth Day on
April 22. One student at the con-
ference observed, "Earth Day
should happen every day of the
year.” The students from each of
six schools participating (Copper
Mountain, Thomhill Elementary,
Cassie Hall, Uplands, Skeena and

Clarence Michiel) shared their
Earth Day activities.
Copper Mountain had a school

‘ garba-thon and began the process

of encouraging students to bring
their lunches in recyclable con-

tainers. Cassie Hall did a recycled |

art project, a clean-up and raising
funds to protect one acre of land in
the Amazon. Thornhill Elementary
has already begun composting with

hopes of integrating it into a gar-

den planned next year.

Mr. Halfyard’s Grade 7 class
from Thornhill! Elementary School
and Mr. Eckert’s Grade 5 class
from Cassie Hall both reported
receipt of funding in April from
the Shell Environmental Fund to
buy litter sticks, gloves, brooms,
bags, buckets and the use of a
truck for on-going clean-up cam-
paigns, involving the whole school

population. (See this issue for
more information on these pro-
jects).

The Skeena Jr. Secondary School
recycling committee took the par-
ticipants on a tour of their on-
going paper recycling workshop.

They collect both school refuse |

and paper from commercial enter-
prises in Terrace. The 10-member
committee spends many Saturdays
sorting and boxing the paper in
preparation for transport to
Vancouver.

One of the organizers of the
conference, Ray Walker, explained,
"We hope that, as a result of the
conference and with co-operative
effort, the students will begin to
see that they can take contro! of
their futures and work towards
positive change in their - various
environments."

Overwaitea Foods is committed
to providing a selection —
__ of Enviro-Friendly products —

rs

Overwaitca thanks you
Overwaitca now has 25 slores equipped with a Radco $
their work week 1o recycling. This makes these outlets
re-cycled 4,000 metric tons. This service will be extended to

Be part of the solution

Overwaitea Foods
Skeena Mall, Terrace —_

for caring enough to recycle.

hreddcr. We employ 45 clerks who devote
“75 percent waste-free, To date, we have

Northern B.C. in the near future.

aluminum soft drink cans collected
over the past couple of years by
Boy Scouts and Beavers in Kem-
ano will result in the acquisition of
new camping equipment for
youngsters there. The boys began
collecting both cans and bottles to
raise funds through deposit returns.

Now, the imminent arrival of a
small ‘commercial can crusher
being supplied by Alcan Recycling
in Vancouver will make the

make up a pound of aluminum.
The new crusher to be located in

Kemano at the incinerator, will.

densify the cans and many thou-
sands can be shipped in blocks,
each weighing approximately 20

pounds, The crushed can blocks

are then shipped by rail to Alcan’s
principal aluminum recycling facil-
ity in Berea, Kentucky to be
remelted into new can sheet ingot.
Recycling of cans requires only

to smelt primary aluminum ingot
for can stock.

How profitable can it be? Just
ask the grad class at the high
school in Queen Charlotte City.
Alcan recently presented a cheque
for $4,200 to them in exchange for
some 10,000 pounds of cans for
recycling. Cans from the Queen
Charlottes were transported by
Rivtow to Vancouver, on barges
subsidized by Alcan. .

Terrace Branch

FACT: To grow a pound of |
wood a typical tree uses
nearly a pound a a half of
carbon dioxide and gives off
more than a pound of oxygen.

An acre of trees can grow
tow tons of wood in a year
while consuming almost three
tons of carbon dioxide and
giving off more than two tons
of oxygen.

| thank you! |

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