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c r i m st wv 1 v v t tvh stouffvitte suntribune thursday may 26 2005 staff photosteve somerville grade 6teacher helen snare sorts trash and recydables collected from classrooms by her students at windham ridge public school students drive school recycling everyone knows helen snares class is responsible for recycling at windham ridge public school tuesday after recess the grade 6 stu dents scurry through the library main office and every classroom collecting white and blue recy- cling boxes i would do it with the younger children too it just happens that i teach this age ms snare said standing in the hallway of the aurora elementary school wearing rubber gloves she waits for a student to return with a box so she can sort the recy dables into larger bins like many teachers ms snare began a recy cling program in her school because neither the york district public school board nor york catholic district school board have boardwide recycling programs the boards provide guidelines but leave it up to school staff arid students to create an action plan a common hurdle is the different municipal waste management programs margaret brevik manager of environmental services said we tried initially to follow the municipalities but things were always changing and it became very confusing she said schools manage waste in three streams plastic and cans fibre and garbage we used to recycle glass but it was cut out when the bottles were taken out of our vending machines ms brevik said adding glass now rep resents less than 1 per cent of recydables collect ed so it is not considered a viable prograrh waste services inc is one of the companies the stateof s contracted by the public board to pick up school recycling collecting cans botdes and paper from northend schools and taking it to its plant for processing our facility is more modern so the cans and bottles dont need to be separated operations manager gary brown said at the plant recydables are separated cleaned and deinked another truck delivers the scraps to companies that can reuse the material such as alcan aluminum or tin factories in hamilton mr brown added part of ms snares program involves separating the products because it teaches the students good habits she said garbage that is mixed in is redirected the biggest problem is contamination the teacher said as she pulled a wrapper from a blue box and flung it into a garbage bin her student kelly park who grabs the boxes from the main office agrees the office isnt doing a great job because they put the wrong stuff in the wrong bins i find paper in the garbage can and pop cans in the recycling said the energetic 11yearold who carries the see students page 22 staff photoroger varley shelagh donadio believes she has suffered deteriorating health since moving into the area of the keele valley landfill site landfill site closed but impact lingers by roger varley staff writer when mario ferri bought his house in maple in 1984 a map in the subdivision sales office showed a golf course on the north side of major mackenzie drive west of dufferin street not a landfill site i thought that was fabulous said mr ferri now a vaughan regional councillor the salespeople said the keele valley landfill site was a long way away in fact the landfill site the largest in canada with 929 acres filled with 2t million tonnes of garbage most of it from toronto was only about 700 metres from his new home in what was then was just a small village it has affected our lives since then he said there were 1500 to 2000 truck trips a day in and out the dump officially closed new years eve 2002 causing 700 residents to gather at the site for a party complete with cham pagne and fireworks the site is now undergoing the long process of rehabilitation eagles nest golf course recently opened at the southeast corner of the lands and plans call for sports fields recre ational areas and a nature preserve -v- but for years to come a large pliirne of steam will continue to billow over the area a byproduct of the electricity generation pro vided by burning methane and other gases collected at a rate of 17000 cubic feet per minute from the huge mound of decompos ing refuse the steam comes from the more than 2000 litres of water used every minute to cool the turbines rehabilitation wont be easy more than 4000 trees have been see battle page 23 fyv i a c chapel ridge f ujn er a v h0 me irm a t i o n c en t r e si it jt jt k3 j ij ij 89t1 woodbine avenue markham ontario l3r 5g1 email infochapelridgefhcom wwwchapelridgefhcom a k a n l n g par of our coiviu family owned in- and susahiie loppencteii y fi v j v- vii cyvi v tvrj fl irf