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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Cardboard next on dump ban list
By JOSH MASSEY
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■■ Earthquake benefit HARJINDER DHESI prepares naan for the community Nepal benefit dinner held at the Terrace Sportsplex on May 23. Money raised from the dinner is going to the relief work being undertaken by the Red Cross following last month’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal. The dinner raised more than $6,000 from ticket sales alone, a figure that will be matched by the federal government. Organizers of this benefit staged a similar one following the earthquake which devastated Haiti in early 2010.
A COMPLETE ban on cardboard in local landfills is slated to come into effect later this year, say public works officials from the Regional District of KitimatStikine and the City of Terrace. “There’s a market for cardboard, it’s an affordable material to transport south and get out of the waystream,” says regional district works manager Roger Tooms. “The cardboard ban [in landfills] I would expect will be in place this year.” Residents in Terrace and Thornhill already have a curbside program that includes cardboard, so the ban has more of an effect on businesses and other institutions not included in the curbside service. City of Terrace manager of public works Rob Schibli said Terrace will also ban cardboard once the regional district has finalized the contract for the cardboard processing. “The city would work with the [regional district] to implement cardboard bans at our local landfills,” said Schibli. Tooms said the goal is to have the new Forceman Ridge landfill, located 30 kilometres south on Hwy37, operating by mid-2016 and the ban would apply there as well as to the Thornhill and Terrace dumps, both of which will be closed. The Thornhill location will be converted into a transfer station for subsequent transport of waste to the new facility. “The ICI [Industrial, Commercial, Institutional] sector would either self haul depending on who they are or they are going to hire a
contractor like some of them do now with regards to diverting their cardboard,” said Tooms. Businesses will either drop cardboard off themselves or pay for the service provided by companies such as Do Your Part and Waste Management. Do Your Part, which currently processes Terrace curbside recycling, is moving this week to a new building near its current Thornhill location and will be purchasing a compactor to deal with the influx of cardboard if it’s awarded the processing contract. Owner Kasey Lewis says she is positioning herself to
take on the contract from the regional district for the increased cardboard. She will then sell the compacted cardboard to southern markets. She said the price changes and that currently $80 a ton is a ballpark figure for what a recycler would get per ton. “This cardboard contract will require a big, big baler,” said Lewis. “With the extension it will require to put into the building, the total investment will be probably a quarter of a million. It’s a big deal, but, there’s a lot of cardboard out there.”
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Deceased worker smoked cannabis By MARGARET SPEIRS FAILING TO use a safety harness properly, smoking cannabis on the job and a problem with a crane lift are facts in the death of a worker on BC Hydro’s Northwest Transmission Line last year, according to the recently released BC coroner’s report. Michael Todd Thornewell, 45, died of massive head trauma after falling 22 metres from a work platform while working on the power line, about 50 km north of Terrace on March 15, 2014. “It was determined that Mr. Thornewell had not followed appropriate safety procedures as his fall protection harness was not fastened to one of the six tie-off points that were welded to the guardrail corners,” said the report written by coroner Wendy Flanagan. “I find that Michael Todd Thornewell died near Terrace on March 15, 2014 of massive head trauma due to a fall from a crane. Recent use of cannabis may have been a contributory factor. I classify this death as accidental and make no recommendations,” wrote Flanagan. Thornewell, who had been working for McGregor Construction of Edmonton under contract to main transmission line builder Valard, was a power line technician working on a new transmission tower March 15, said the report. During construction, new transmission lines, or conductors, are strung between transmission towers with the lines temporarily held in place with chain jacks between the insulator glass at the towers and implosion sleeves, said the report.
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