HRM councillors re garbage

Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:08:31 -0400
From: Paul Shreenan <pshreena@STMARYS.CA>
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Good questions raised here. I am not sure either what happens to the
"recycling" and "compost" that the HRM collects, but I do know a guy who
has studied it. Mark Dittrick of the Sierra Club (Atlantic Canada
Chapter). He lives in Annapolis Royal - the only town in N.S. to opt out
of the Green Bin program because of its negative environmental effects.
The compost is trucked around the province (according to him sometimes
up to 400 kilometres) before it is deposited in a compost site. Dittrick
and others do local composting and are attempting to achieve zero waste
from their town. It is an ambitious project, but clearly trucking
compost (even a few kilometres) undermines the whole point of
composting. In effect damaging the environment more than if we did no
composting at all.

I would do some more research before deciding to get HRM to _increase_
this programme.


Best,

Paul Shreenan



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