Ontario Community Newspapers

Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 2 Apr 1980, p. 8

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Gerbege brought Ben Ber-nine: of ttitethqrtqr-Watqrtoo Pollution Probe and Bev Hedlend of Wendy's 00d Feshioned Hemburgere together on e project to tocvde edible weete. for 8 -Wuloo Gimmick. Wuhan-y, April 2, 1m 'PHASE ODE PAC KACE. PRICE NOT ERECTED Now you can build this year at reasonable interest rates. Viceroy will . pay directly to you the' interest difference on our Viceroy material package between ELEVEN PERCENT first mortgage and the first mortgage you are able to obtain for the ENTIRE INITIAL YEAR it is in effect; to a maximum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Call us to-day for further details. 4296 King St. E., Kitchener, Ont., 653-0389 MSHAYCOUR'TSOPENtthata.m.iopm. VICEROY CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Announcing Viceroy’s Baveson-llint%resirt: Plan LOIVOWHERS ONLY P'""""'"'"" CUY Please and me the VICEROV SUBURBAN HOMES CATALOGUE. lcnclose ”no All]?! 55 LOLATQNO!‘ LOT . M - writer Garbage is the unique agent that has helped bond a relationship between Kit- ehegger-Wateg%o Pollution Probe and,Weatetr'ts Old Fa- shioned Hamburgers. Bee Hodland, manager of Wendy's King Street store and Ben Bemtinger, from Probe, have been working together since last fall on a management study for the Business Pollution concerns fast food outlets 'iceroy VOSIAI "We work with a lot of young people in the store and we're trying to build total awareness that we’re moving towards a conserver society," Hadia6 said. “Most businesses can show young people how you run a successful operation: full- cycle, peMt/htas, and also we develop people. But at reusing. recycling and re- duction of waste materials. During their study, Had- land and Benninger dis- covered that the restaurant was using only one-third of a head of lettuce, and due to the company's standard of quality, eouidn't store the balance for use another day. It ended up in the garbage. "We contacted Kaster Re- cycling of New Dundee. He has a large pork operation of approximately t,500 pigs and he picks up from 27 dif- ferent locations in the Re- gion," Benninger said. “He takes the waste food, pros cesses it and feeds it to the swine. He's agreed on a handshake basis to come and pick up'the waste food until we become more es- tablished in the program and has been doing so ever since with great success." "How do you tackle a problem like that? We didn't have the answer so we con- tacted Pollution Probe," she said. 'Benninger recruited a group of university students to look into the different aspects of recycling " it would apply to an opeation like Wendy's after he was contacted by Hadland. "We broke the wastes down into four categories; that of produce, metal, paper and miscellaneous. Produce was the first area we tackled because it was one of the biggest problems here," Benninger said. had said. _ She said it's not a very pretty thing to think about. but something has to be done about the situation in- stead of letting waste ma- terials lie around deteriorat- mg. the - time, there’s trttt- Hadland realized right from day one that she would have to stay within certain company guidelines because it is a national fast food chain operation. She was also concerned about setting up a project that could con- tinue to operate even if the q Custom Made q Caya Fabrics q 8-to Day Service 0, Material for Sewers Available Phone 888-1 600 _ Waterloo UNIQUE DRAPES-SHEERS All. “All Mill" DECORATING SERVICE 20% OFF (Continued on page 9)

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