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An idea worth recycling

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Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest, and that could very well be trueof the provincial government’s plan to recycle bottles purchased at LCBO out-lets.

While his plan was short on vital details, Premier Dalton McGuintyannounced last Sunday that, beginning in February, deposits will be chargedon alcohol containers bought at the LCBO.

The bottles would then have to be returned to beer stores.Under the plan, 80 million LCBO bottles that currently end up in landfills

would be recycled.According to Ontario environmental commissioner Gord Miller, only 20

per cent of LCBO bottles are recycled because many bottles break in the recy-cling process, mixing coloured and clear glass and therefore making the glassunusable for recycling. No bottles are refilled.

The new plan, however, would see consumers return LCBO bottles to BeerStores for a refund (an amount McGuinty failed to reveal as well as how muchextra consumers will have to pay) while Beer Store staff will sort the bottles.

Earlier this summer the Association of Municipalities of Ontario urged theprovince to impose a deposit-return system on bottles because of the high costfor municipalities to run their Blue Box systems.

Currently, Ontario and Manitoba are the only provinces without extensivebottle-return systems.

The Beer Store has an impressive 98 per cent recovery rate for returnablebottles and a 90 per cent rate for aluminum cans. One can’t help but wonderif Beer Stores can do so well at bottle returns, why can’t the LCBO?

As every municipality in Ontario struggles to try and cope with over-bur-dened landfills and find ways to deal with ever-increasing waste, it is impera-tive that everyone try to be part of the solution.

That includes the LCBO.

Here is an excerpt from a letter by an Acton residentdonor to the ‘Save the Tree’ Fund:

"As I was discussing the Save the Tree campaign withmy six-year-old granddaughter, Anna, she listenedintently and then said, ‘I want to help too, Papa.’

She went to her piggy bank, removed a loonie andtwo quarters and handed them to me, which I haveincluded."

Touched by Anna’s simple act of compassion for atree, a thank-you letter and the Tree’s Story were quick-ly mailed to her.

White T-shirts with the tree logo as well as mugs withan oak leaf design and story should be available at a rea-sonable price through Hopedale Zellers or members ofthe fundraising committee.

JOYCE BURNELL

Every penny helpsRe: A soldier’s safe return, Oakville

Beaver, Friday, Sept. 15 To Oakville Beaver reporter Kristie

Rutherford: As a serving PPCLI soldier, an

Oakville native and a member ofOakville's small military community, Iwant to thank you for the excellentpiece you wrote on Private CharlieLong, PPCLI.

You gave the people of our town ahuman face to put to their soldiers.

You pointed out both the dangersthat soldiers face, and the pride we feelin our regiment and our service toCanada.

I am very proud to serve in thesame regiment as this young soldier,and I hope our fellow citizens areproud of him as well.

Having done a tour in Afghanistanmyself, I share the belief that we canmake a real difference by standing upto evil there.

As professional soldiers, we knowfull well that there is no purely mili-tary solution in Afghanistan; we alsoknow that without security and strongresolve, there is no solution at all.

DAVID J. BANKS

On behalf of all breast cancer survivors/sufferers, Iwould like to extend sincere thanks to Julia Hanna and the'Chicks out Walking' for doing such a tremendous job onraising so much money for Princess Margaret's HospitalResearch Foundation.

These generous people, who give so much of them-selves in time and effort, should know how much they areappreciated. Thank you 'girls'

JOAN DAVIS

Chicks earn praise