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Phone 656-115P> Wednesday, March 14, 1990 — B12 *Plus Tax Environment Timing of tipping fee increase tough on collectors — A small Peninsula disposal company doesn’t want to go back to customers and ask them to voluntary pay an increase in costs slapped on by the CRD. But unless people start throwing away less garbage, Ron’s Disposal “will have a lot of trouble carrying the costs for an extra year,” co- owner Jim Alexander said. “We don’t object to what the CRD is doing with its recycling and user-pay policy,’ Alexander said. “What we object to is the latest increase right in the middle of the year.” The majority of Ron’s custom- ers pre-pay for curbside garbage pickup for an entire year because of a discount incentive. North Saanich Mayor Linda Michaluk said if her garbage hauler asked her to pay for a voluntary increase, she would do it. “My position is we have to start recycling so we protect our envi- ronment and unfortunately some people won’t start recycling until it becomes economically benefi- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ma cled material are demonstrated with a lively beat by students at Keating Ele- mentary School Wednesday. Although cial,’ Michaluk said. “I don’t agree with subsidizing pollution.” She said the true cost of land filling has to be reflected in the tipping fee charges, which will increase to $30 per tonne from $22 per tonne effective June 30. The operation of the CRD’s Hartland Road landfill is paid through property taxes and “‘the feeling was: Why should people who are recycling be subsidizing people who are wholesale dump- ing?” Michaluk said. Alexander said: “If tonnage went down a corresponding amount to what we're being charged then at least we wouldn’t have to absorb the whole thing.” He said that since the recycling program began there has only been about a four per cent decrease in tipping weight. And after considering a move towards asking customers to pay more, Alexander decided against it, despite about two dozen callers offering to voluntarily pay an increase. “That just doesn’t hit me night,” he said. “If I’d paid for a year of ie cablevision and they sent me a bill Saying the CRTC upped the rate, I'd say, “What’s going on here’.” After an increase in November to $22 from $16.50 per tonne, the CRD told Ron’s, Alpine Disposal and other haulers that it made the increase big so there wouldn’t have to be another one for at least a year, Alexander said. That understanding was consid- ered when garbage pick-up rates were set for the 1990 year, he said. Sidney Mayor Norma Sealey also voted in favor of the increase as a member of the CRD environ- ment committee and said tipping fees will increase because a CRD environment sub committee had to reduce the requisition budget. “The philosophical intent of the environment committee was to reduce the flow of solid waste to the landfill,” Sealey said. “The cost of being environmen- tally conscious is very high.” The tipping fee increase is intended to encourage people to reduce the amount of waste going to the landfill and to give busi- nesses an incentive to recycle by e€ from recy- project. shown by Grade 1 and 2 students, all of the school’s grades got involved in the making it more expensive to dis- pose. Laidlaw Waste Systems manager Jim Bradley said he’s seen about a 20 per cent reduction of tonnage since recycling started. Bradley said the decrease is for two reasons — people recycling and better buying by the consumer. “People are becoming more conscious and are making an effort to buy things with less packag- ing,” Bradley said. “If we can encourage people to recycle we can lower our costs,” he said. “Based on the numbers I'm servicing, if I can improve the margin of recycling’s participation rate, that’ll probably offset the increase.” 5 Sealey said November’s increase was used to pay for the Start-up of the recycling program and the latest increase will place the debt of the landfill on the tipping fee. She said if the recycling pro- gram is working properly there should be less tonnage going to the landfill. For companies with a , ~ year-long contract “there is a pos- sibility to renegotiate if there is justification.” Lower Mainland landfills charge between $52 and $57.50 per tonne for landfilling, Sealey said. ~“TIthas been very cheap to dump in this area,” she said. Alderman supported to place ban on residential backyard burning The pungent aroma of buming leaves is something one Central Saanich resident enjoys. But the odor of smoldering milk cartons wafting through the window until midnight is quite another, Central Saanich Ald. Wayne Watkins said, March 5. The Central Saanich community services and legislation committee is preparing a bylaw which would ban backyard buming in residen- tial neighborhoods. Council received a letter from a Rodolph Road resident who said: “The pungent odor of buming leaves in the fall has always been a delightful aroma for me.” Watkins, who’s tried to get Cen- tral Saanich to ban backyard burn- ing for five years, said: ““The odor of burning milk cartons, smolder- ing until midnight and coming through my window, is not a delightful aroma to me.” Council decided to ask commit- tee to prepare a bylaw to ban backyard burning in residential neighborhoods Feb. 19) after receiving a letter from a Verdier Avenue resident who said: “Back- yard burning of garden waste alone surpasses cigarette smoke in can- cer-causing benzopyrenes. “Tt seems insane to ban cigarette smoking in many public places yet to continue to allow the fouling of our air with backyard burning. Please.do not allow the fouling of our air to continue.” Ald Ed Hemblad supported the proposed ban. “The day is long gone when we should have burm- ing barrels in the backyard,” Hemblad said: Watkins was ecstatic. “It’s taken five years but I’m finally getting support.” Ald. Arlene Box said if a ban was applied to ALR land it would create a hardship for farmers. Council unanimously approved referring the matter to committee for bylaw preparation.