Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!moegate!soley
From: soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Recycling Phonebooks
Message-ID: <230@moegate.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 23:27:17 GMT
References: <89Mar15.154034est.19517@me.utoronto.ca> <224@ecicrl.UUCP> <448@ontenv.UUCP>
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <448@ontenv.UUCP>, soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
> In article <224@ecicrl.UUCP>, clewis@ecicrl.UUCP writes:
> > If you slit the spine of your phone book off, you can simply put it in
> > your blue box.  It is, after all, more or less newsprint.  The glue would
> > poison the batch, so you gotta get it off somehow.
> 
> I wouldn't do it (except in that area of Mississauga were Bell is
> organizing the trial). Why? [...] even though glueless phone book pages 
> are perfectly recyclable they may LOOK unrecyclable to the recycling 
> contractor resulting in an entire load of paper going into the landfill site
> instead of being recycled.

I've got some further information about this issue. According to CKCO TV 
reporter Steve Hopper (11:30 Newscast, March 27th) a petition has been raised
in Guelph protesting the fact that they cannot recycle their phone books. 
BRAVO! 

It was pointed out that telephone books are made from paper that is
different enough from newsprint that they cannot be recycled together. 
This supports my advice against putting them in blue boxes. 

The horse has already left the barn this year for most of us. The time to 
start thinking about next year is upon us! Start a petition or write 
letters urging that next year everyone in Ontario can participate in phone 
book recycling, not just a small area in Mississagua send them to Bell 
Canada, to the Ministries of Environment (Federal and Provincial) and 
most importantly to your local council, after all they're the ones who 
run our recycling programs, heck why not cc: the CRTC too.

-- 
Norman Soley - The Communications Guy - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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