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10 stouffville suntribune thursday oct 11 2007 on salesurdayoctober 13 students just want recyclables picked up wsmfeisaa raisins roasted salted or unsalted 44100g p i blanched jm gg i p peanuts pure chocolate covered almonds i lb 971 oog lb ka m merckens light dark or white m chocolate g moulding wafers 771 oog 49 ib wine gums 621 oog lb snack mix sweet cajun heat 841 oog ib halves or pieces pecans 2051 oog i lb salted unsalted bbq or nacho cornnuts vitamin herbal supplement specials p m all genuine health 1 and greens j 680 g powder assorted flavours 1 1 pvl whey gourmet i 15 off 1 2639 fi 1 500 mg 90 chewable tabs tropical breeze orange or citrus squeeze flavours webber naturals sunkist vitamin c 60 eaplets selected varieties swiss herbal total one multi vitamin mineral p m wea i 1 p i 5 i p j canadas largest bulk food retailer more now over 100 i j j locations and growing franchise locations available quality value and selection since 1 982 ba locations ana growing rrancnise locations avauadie rea 3 in ontario atlantic canada and manitoba 905 8866756 o jp hitithiiihh p markham 14 crossings 905 4715605 m li markville shopping centre 9054757220 l j fi scarborough town centre 4162960287 1 4 wammm 4 every wednesday seniors and students save 10 off all regular priced products fexclunq ct camm0 c used couuvctton wttm any otmf b 0t uut wrtst vatjo tochtif jcaton wife strsses last on kmifsm tets wwwbulkbarnca by hannelore volpe staff writer when all the blue boxes disappeared from the hallways in their school stu dents at st mark catholic school were outraged the grade 56 class began a letter- writing campaign to complain about recyclables no longer being picked up at their school collection of recyclables stopped in september around the same time that a new contractor turtle island recy cling co inc took over collections in whitchurchstouftville the school was recognized as an earth school in 2000 for its environmen tal initiatives including recycling public schools unaffected relying on the town isnt an issue for the public schools in whitchurch- stouffville they have their recycling picked up regularly under a school board program all the recyclable mate rials collected goes to a regional transfer station said ross virgo york region dis trict school board spokesperson the st mark students vented their feelings in their letters after recycling wasnt picked up grade 5 student jack rowell noted that the school won the earth school award and now the bot tles paper and everything else are going into the garbage it just isnt right for alexandria benedict also in grade 5 it didnt add up that students have always been taught to recycle and here we are doing that but you are not she went on to say that our gar bage dumps are already big enough and if we cant recycle they will get bigger hayley barnes noted her science unit is about taking care of the earth i dont know how im going to take it seriously if my school cant recycle their own things she wrote in their letters sent to local politicians and the media many of the students described themselves as disappointed and concerned principal chester makischuk and the york catholic district school board say recycling was done for several years by miller waste systems the towns former contractor according to the towns director of public works paul whitehouse the schools caretaker was also taking recy clable to the volunteer recycling depot in memorial park we were not aware that miller waste was collecting from them mr white- house said i dont know how long they had been doing that for the school but students and teachers soon took notice last month when the recycling trucks stopped coming to the school even though our plastic was sorted and put at curbside by our dedicated staff the trucks now drive right past the bins teacher susan whitebread wrote in her cover letter accompanying her students letters what option does this bran and pf eserif ourer f sf sunday october 7 1 4 in the olivebrancn parkihg lot give a 10 donation to the markham stouffville food banks and get a great big fat beautiful pumpkin grown by whittamores farm for this special occasion our 2 sunday morning services are 9 11 am if you dont have a church you regularly attend wed love to see you the olive branch mwkm community church wra 175 anderson avenue in markham north of 16 ave on hwy 48 main st markham turn right on bur oak then left on anderson ave check out our wefcsite i wwwfofcca leave the school but to throw the recycle into the garbage this is against all the training our students receive at home and at school the class is outraged as a stopgap solution teachers start ed taking recycling home mrs white- bread told the suntribune children of the taxpayers are spend ing most of the day here mrs white- bread said and that is where they gen erate most of the recyclables turtle island did collect recyclables from st mark school for the first cou ple of weeks in september to help out the school mr whitehouse said but stopped collection the third week town must be consisted the town has to be consistent with all the schools mr whitehouse said the focus now is on the town carry ing out its new green bin organic waste pickupprogram mr whitehouse said the students also wanted to have something done about the paper and cardboard that hadnt been picked up in this case it seems there was a misunder standing said school board spokesper son joann macdonald while the number of bins was reduced from four to two as outlined in mrs whitebreads letter the two are the larger bins this pickup is under the school boards jurisdiction paper piled up in september because no one from the school called the board ms macdonald said while waiting for the pickup the school has the option of storing paper and cardboard in clear plastic bags she added st mark school called the board last week ms macdonald said and the truck was slated to pick up the paper recycling the following day we love that our students are envi ronmentallyconscious she said some municipalities offer schools extensive recycling services she said the boards environmental working oup approaches municipalities not urrendy offering recycling services to chools to see what can be arranged all schools in the york catholic dis- ict school board recycle printer ink artridges computers and printers and iture such as broken chairs not items are recycled some residents have contacted the jwn asking why it appears the towns scycling and garbage contractor turtle sland recycling co inc is tossing both garbage and the green bin organic waste into the same trucks thats because theyre split trucks paul whitehouse the towns public works director said the green bins go into the front bin of the truck while recyclable items from the blue box program are tossed farther back into the second bin from a distance it appears like both are being placed in the same place in the truck mr whitehouse said in addition newer trucks which tur tle island is acquiring appear identical but one will pick up garbage another recycling and a third organic waste it is confusing to the residents mr whitehouse said to stack or not to stack have you driven by stouffvilles neigh- bourhoods and wondered why the blue boxes green bins and garbage contain ers are all stacked in little piles thats the turtle island recycling co incs signature said paul whitehouse the towns director of public works ser vices workers empty the blue boxes first stack them and then empty the green bins they want to leave the area looking tidy he said i p r h t