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REVIEW Wednesday April 29, 2015 Vol. 118, No. 17
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Earth Day planting
Leif Nielsen (left) and Caden Hedley plant a fir tree on the Illecillewaet Greenbelth last week as part of Earth Day activities. Students from Begbie View Elementary gathered on the greenbelt to plant trees on Thursday, the day after Earth Day. The trees were donated by Stella Jones and the event was organized by the North Columbia Environmental Society with help from the the Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society. ~ Photo by Sarah Newton
City considering privatizing garbage collection AGING GARBAGE TRUCK, UPCOMING FOOD WASTE PICKUP HAS CITY PONDERING FUTURE OF GARBAGE COLLECTION ALEX COOPER
My goal for the next five years is to have curbside food waste programs in place in the CSRD. ~ Ben Van Nostrand, Environmental Health Services Team Leader
alex.cooper@revelstokereview.com With their garbage trucks nearing the end of their life and the regional district planning on curbside food waste pickup, the City of Revelstoke is considering privatizing garbage collection services. Council has asked staff to look at contracting out garbage collection by contacting the city union and beginning the tendering process. “We are looking at the whole thing about garbage collection because our trucks are
falling apart,” said Mayor Mark Mckee. “We’re unsure of what we’re going to be collecting in the future and we’re concerned if we go and buy a truck we’re going to have for six or eight years, that it may be the wrong kind of truck because food waste may be coming out of the garbage stream.” The Columbia Shuswap Regional District endorsed an updated waste management plan last week that calls for curbside food waste pickup. The plan was first established in 2009 and the Board of Directors endorsed the update. The plan calls for a ‘zero waste’ strategy
that maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace. Other guiding principles include encouraging a 6R hierarchy – rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle, recover and manage residuals, the use of community-based social marketing techniques to get the word out and a commitment by CSRD to continue to finance the cost of residual waste disposal through a region-wide user-pay system. see Garbage, page 15
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