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The scrap over glass pick-up is on
Counting down to the Cloverdale Rodeo Less than two months away, fair now has new lower admission prices
New recycling agency aims to ditch curbside collection, have public take bottles and jars to depots
by Jennifer Lang
by Jeff Nagel
WITH JUST over six weeks to go until
THE NEW agency taking charge of blue box recycling will try again
to convince its critics that it makes sense to end curbside pick-up of glass bottles and jars, forcing households to take them to depots. Multi-Material BC (MMBC), the industry stewardship group the province has charged with recycling all types of packaging and printed paper starting in mid-2014, will meet Metro Vancouver’s waste committee April 4 to discuss its revised plan. “We haven’t made a decision,” MMBC spokesman Allen Langdon said. “What we’re looking for is to have a discussion on the environmental merits.” Some civic leaders think moving to depot-only collection of glass would be a big reduction in service, resulting in more bottles and jars ending up in the landfill. But Langdon said there’s a mistaken assumption that glass put in blue boxes is actually recycled. “We think maybe 15 per cent of that glass is actually being recycled and the rest is going to the landfill anyway,” Langdon said. The “recycled” portion is actually being used as road aggregate, he said, Malcolm Brodie not turned into new glass. Separating glass from the blue box stream – where it can break, contaminate and degrade the value of other recyclables – would help MMBC find better markets and get higher prices for recyclables, he said. “We think it’s going to increase recycling of glass, plastic and fibre,” Langdon said. “Some [Metro directors] seem to think it’s an issue of cost when really it’s about how we’re going to recycle the greatest amount of material.”
“...I think people by and large won’t take it to the depot – they’ll put it in the trash. It just seems to me to be a big step backwards.”
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Cowboys, cowgirls, midway rides, live music, and tons of family fun are planned for this year’s Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair (May 17-20), along with a new, lower admission price.
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the 67th annual Cloverdale Rodeo and 125th Country Fair, organizers have announced a big discount for families with children. Children 12 and under will receive free admission to rodeo performances – and on gate admission to the country fair – provided they’re accompanied by an adult this May long weekend in Cloverdale. The move expands a discount for children’s gate admissions floated last year at Surrey’s biggest tourist attraction, which appeared poised to burst all previous attendance records until bad weather arrived, putting a damper on the final two days of the event. “We got off to a Shannon great start... and Claypool we would have had a world beater, probably one of the best weekends ever,” said Shannon Claypool, president of the Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition Association told members at last month’s annual general meeting. “But the weather gods didn’t cooperate and it rained for three days,” Claypool said. “It wasn’t a great year.”
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