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Directors also set targets for reducing garbage dumped in landfills – 70 per cent by 2015 Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Metro Vancouver’s board of directors passed a waste management plan Friday, approving a new garbage incinerator, but where exactly it will be remains to be seen. The plan aims to reduce garbage, reuse and recycle as much as possible, burn the leftover waste and put the remains in a landfill. The plan includes targets to reduce the amount of waste created and dumped in landfills to 70 per cent by 2015 and 80 per cent by 2020. The plan also includes measures that will ban all wood and compostable waste from disposal, increase recycling This story first appeared on in multi-family www.burnabynow.com residences and onjob sites, and enhance existing recycling and reuse programs. Metro Vancouver has to wait for the provincial government to approve the plan before soliciting proposals to have the incinerator built. Burnaby’s garbage incinerator, which has been around for roughly 20 years, generates $10 million in annual energy sales from electricity and steam. Burnaby councillor Colleen Jordan was at the Metro Vancouver meeting Friday, which ran for more than six hours.
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Risky habit: A man is seen in Confederation Park on Monday risking a $2,000 fine by violating a temporary ban on smoking within all city parks, trails and green spaces.
Puffing in city parks? Don’t try it Andrew Fleming staff reporter
Smokers who like to light up while at the park will have to quit the habit for a while. Citing the current extreme fire hazard, the City of Burnaby has announced a ban on smoking for all municipal parks, trails and green spaces until further notice. “We don’t often have to do this in the Lower Mainland, but everybody is on pretty high alert,” said parks director David Ellenwood, adding the city is following the advice of the B.C. Wildfire Management Branch. “No Smoking – Fire Hazard” signs have been posted throughout the city’s
parks and park patrols will also be out to remind people to butt out. “We’re not going to be packing squirt guns, and water bombers are not going to be flying over the parks,” said Ellenwood with a laugh. “We’re going to be relying on people’s common sense.” Although enforcing the ban is difficult considering the sheer amount of green space within city boundaries, people who choose to violate it can risk a fine under a city bylaw that prohibits open fires. Ellenwood said handing out fines is unlikely but is still possible. “We would ask someone to put it out, and if they don’t comply, we can fine them. It’s as simple as that.”
According to a city parks regulation bylaw, anyone who drops “any lighted match, cigar, cigarette or similar thing or any burning substance” risks a fine of up to $2,000. The ban does not currently apply to cooking stoves that use gas, propane or briquettes, or to portable campfire apparatus with a CSA or ULC rating that aren’t capable of producing a flame longer than 15 centimetres. Ellenwood said he wouldn’t be able to guess how long the ban will last, saying that it depends on the weather and decisions made by the Coastal Fire Centre, one of six regional wildland fire centres operated by the B.C. Forest Service’s Wildfire Management Branch.
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