Saturday December 8 Community Region committee in disagreement Not all members of Regions Planning and Public Works Committee Wednesday agreed with the suggestion the private sector should someday be responsible for collecting and disposing household hazardous waste It s only a matter of time said Burlington Regional councillor Walter Mulkewich before it becomes too costly for the Region to collect and dispose this type of waste The expense should be dropped from the budget it can t take it the councillor ed Another Burlington Regional Councillor Patrick McLaughlin countered by saying this scenario could present a safety hazard to the public If every store selling batteries old batteries constitute a form of hazardous waste had to collect those it sold and then dispose of them the batteries could possibly be disposed of correctly resulting in the public being harmed in some way ex plained Coun McLaughlin This is not to suggest manufac turrs and distributors of the pro ducts shouldn t play a greater role in their collection and disposal but the Region should participate enough to maintain control over the program he said The debate on arose out of a staff recommendation to the committee that Burlington based Laidlaw Environmental Services be contracted to collect and Hewitt endorsed Halton s Planning and Public Works Committee recommended Wedneday that Halton Hills Regional Councillor Joe Hewitt sit on the Region s Building Ex pansion Committee and Court Revision Committee for 1991 The recommendation will go before Regional council for final approval this Wednesday The building expansion com mittee reviews proposals the ongoing expansion of the Regional Headquarters in The committee then makes recommendations for council s consideration The Court of Revision Committee rules on any suggested revisions to those Regional works proposed under a local municipality s provement act HHW in in tract since 1988 when the Regions HHW collection pro gram began Following the debate commit tee members recommended Halton Region renew the yearlong contact with Laidlaw The recommendation will go before Regional Council this Wednesday for final approval According to a Regional staff report the HHW program was in for the following minimize the disposal of small quantities of hazardous waste at Halton swastedlsposal facilities minimize dibcharge of dous waste to s sewer system promote public environmental awareness regarding household hazardous waste Under the program Laidlaw during 12 collection days throughout the year is expected to collect and dispose of approx imately litres of the report indicates Laidlaw will dispose 77 The company has held the con litres of this total at the firm Burlington depot while the re mainder will be disposed of at it s Milton depot The Burlington depot receives HHW collected from Halton south and the Milton depot receives from Halton north During Wednesday meeting Halton s acting Commissioner of Public Works Bruce Kitchen told 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