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December 14 2012 www.burnabynewsleader.com
What does an ugly sweater have to do with building a new school gymnasium? turns out a lot. See Page A3
City to ask feds to force NHL back to work Request to be suitably tongue in cheek: Mayor Wanda chow
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gabriel Wong and Joelle chin, grade 3 students at John knox christian school, with some of the electronic devices and toys the school is collecting to be recycled.
School program a Canadian first John Knox piloting electronic toy recycling
The Burnaby independent school so impressed Tracey Tobin, the city’s environmental services officer, Wanda chow wchow@burnabynewsleader.com with their enthusiasm that she knew just who to call when she was Teachers at John Knox Christian asked to find a school to pilot a new School are helping students turn electronic toy recycling collection environmental lessons into real-life program. habits. For 1 1/2 weeks, Knox students After participating in a pilot will bring in their old, broken program for food scraps collection, electronic toys—just about anything kids now routinely put their that takes batteries or needs to be leftovers and peelings into compost plugged in—for recycling. pails that are picked up regularly by Genesis Recycling of Langley a student crew for deposit into a bin handles1the12-03-05 recycling of materials 4x1.25_small_appliances_ad_final.pdf 1:20 PM outside. through the Electronic Toy
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Recycling Program, which started on July 1 in British Columbia, the first province in Canada to do so. “None of these materials need to be landfilled,” said Pamela Nel, spokesperson for the program. Metals, such as from wiring and circuit boards, can be smelted and reused. Batteries can be recycled. Higher grades of plastics can be made into something else while lower grades can be processed into other materials or, for the very lowest grades, incinerated for energy production, Nel said, adding it all
depends on the changing markets for the material. As part of its outreach to local schoolkids, Nel said staff at Genesis are trying to teach kids about reusing toys, that “just because the sirens don’t work and the lights don’t flash, you can still play with it.” Knox Grade 3 teacher Yvonne DeWith took her class on a field trip to the Genesis recycling plant where they were quite fascinated with the process. please see GeTTING, A3
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Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan will be writing to federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt calling for the National Hockey League to be legislated back to work. Council decided to take the action upon a motion by Coun. Nick Volkow, who noted that the federal government has already forced employees in other seemingly non-essential services—Canada Post, Air Canada and longshoremen— to end their labour disputes in recent years. “I think the NHL and the game of hockey is as important an industry in this country as the three previous ones I’ve mentioned,” said a deadpan Volkow, who noted estimates are that the dispute has already cost the Canadian economy $100 million. “It would be a great Christmas gift,” he added of a return of NHL hockey.
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