2 www.pgfreepress.com | newsline: 250.564.0005 SCHOOLS: New minister doesn’t see labour disruptions A 6 SEPTEMBER 2013 GAS FIREPLACE INSERT WOOD FURNACES BY • CLAYTON • HOTBLAST • CADDY • SELKIRK CHIMNEYS WOOD STOVES BY • LOPI • REGENCY • ENERZONE • DROLET • QUADRA FIRE • OSBURN • NESTOR MARTIN • ARCHGARD GAS FIREPLACES BY • LOPI • TRAVIS • REGENCY • KINGSMAN • NAPOLEON • ARCHGARD • NESTOR MARTIN PELLET STOVES & INSERTS BY • QUADRA FIRE 39 Years Experience 430 GSR2™ • High Efﾀciency • Remote Control • Very Large Viewing Area No interest + no payments for 6mos, O.A.C. NEW! Plumbing & Plumbing & Heating Ltd. Heating Ltd. FRASER FRASER 430 Third Avenue Prince George Phone: 1-250-562-6777 Fax: 1-250-562-6707 www.frasercanada.com 1-866-447-6777 1-866-447-6777 Your Indoor Weatherman Come See our Operational Display Models # # 1 1 Selling in Selling in North America! North America! Name changes, fun stays same It was smaller, one day shorter and it had less space to work with but organizers are proud of this year’s BCNE, said longtime board member and interim manager Della Bondarchuk. She stepped in to fill a job vacancy leſt by Angela Cunningham, who resigned in June. Despite its changes and challenges, the fair, held Aug. 8 to 11, went forward and was well-attended, Bondarchuk said. “We are very proud, once again, of our fair. e number of fairgoers was down slightly from 2011 when we had about 38,000 come through the gates. is year we estimate about 35,000 came through, so down a little. And we think that was prob- ably because it was so hot. In 2012 it was our centennial year so the numbers – as we expected – were higher.” A four-day fair continues to be the most viable, she said. “e biggest block [for a five-day fair] was that the midway operated by West Coast Amusements is in southern B.C. just before it comes to us. So they can’t get set up here in time for Wednesday night – the day we wanted to open the fair. We tried it for three years and it didn’t work, so we had to get back to a four-day fair.” And while the BCNE may have literally lost some ground this year, vendors and performers still gave positive feedback, she says. “ere were fewer vendors this year – we had 80 – due to the Kin 1 construction [for the 2015 Canada Winter Games] which narrowed our outdoor space. We didn’t have space for stages, so all the acts had to be on one stage. Even though the numbers were down, some vendors still said they did great. Some didn’t feel they did as well as other years and new vendors had nothing to compare it with. Overall, though, the feedback from vendors was very positive.” People did miss out on rodeo events this year. “ere were huge cuts to gaming grants to all non-profits. is is the third time in four years they’ve cut our funding. We had the equestrian club horses putting on the show as we do every year, that’s a separate thing. In the future, we are hoping to have a regional rodeo division as opposed to going to a national competition which is very expensive to put on. e biggest hit of the BCNE as voted on by children? Hands – or hooves and webbed feet down – the pig and duck races won. “e pigs and ducks were definitely the favourite thing at the BCNE for children. And their second favourite was a sprinkler we put in at the volunteer firefighter’s event to offset the heat. So that’s something that we could expand on next time. Maybe we could have a cool water park-type feature.” Prices of the fair are – fair, says Bond- archuk, considering there have been no major price hikes in midway or entry in recent years. “Entry prices remain the same from last year,” she said. “e one increase was the midway. Armband prices rose from $35 at the fair, $30 in advance to $40 at the fair – but if you bought in advance it was $32.50. So that’s only up a couple of dollars and they haven’t raised the midway rates for years. is year the higher price was basically to cover the higher fuel costs in bringing all the heavy equipment up here.” With another successful fair behind them, it is back to the drawing board in preparation for their first meeting in Sep- tember to discuss the 2014 BCNE. “We are proud of this year’s fair,” said Bonderchuk. “It’s a huge thing, people come from far and wide for the fair. It started out 100 years ago as a grassroots fair and it still is a grassroots fair. I am just blown away by people’s commitment to the fair, they want its success – for the next 100 years. I am so thankful for the volunteers, sponsors (business and corporations), youth groups and individuals who gave their time and resources. It shows it really is the people’s fair.” Teresa Mallam [email protected]Teresa MALLAM/Free Press Young riders on the midway at the B.C. Northern Exhibition had a variety of responses to the thrills.
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less space to work with but organizers are proud of this year’s BCNE, said longtime board member and interim manager Della Bondarchuk. She stepped in to fi ll a job vacancy left by Angela Cunningham, who resigned in June.
Despite its changes and challenges, the fair, held Aug. 8 to 11, went forward and was well-attended, Bondarchuk said.
“We are very proud, once again, of our fair. Th e number of fairgoers was down slightly from 2011 when we had about 38,000 come through the gates. Th is year we estimate about 35,000 came through, so down a little. And we think that was prob-ably because it was so hot. In 2012 it was our centennial year so the numbers – as we expected – were higher.”
A four-day fair continues to be the most viable, she said.
“Th e biggest block [for a fi ve-day fair] was that the midway operated by West Coast Amusements is in southern B.C. just before it comes to us. So they can’t get set up here in time for Wednesday night – the day we wanted to open the fair. We tried it for three years and it didn’t work, so we had to get back to a four-day fair.”
And while the BCNE may have literally lost some ground this year, vendors and performers still gave positive feedback, she says.
“Th ere were fewer vendors this year – we had 80 – due to the Kin 1 construction [for the 2015 Canada Winter Games] which narrowed our outdoor space. We didn’t have space for stages, so all the acts had to be on one stage. Even though the numbers were down, some vendors still said they did great. Some didn’t feel they did as well as other years and new vendors had nothing to compare it with. Overall, though, the feedback from vendors was very positive.”
People did miss out on rodeo events this year.
“Th ere were huge cuts to gaming grants to all non-profi ts. Th is is the third time in four years they’ve cut our funding. We had the equestrian club horses putting on the show as we do every year, that’s a separate thing. In the future, we are hoping to have a regional rodeo division as opposed to going to a national competition which is very expensive to put on.
Th e biggest hit of the BCNE as voted on by children?
Hands – or hooves and webbed feet down – the pig and duck races won.
“Th e pigs and ducks were defi nitely the favourite thing at the BCNE for children. And their second favourite was a sprinkler we put in at the volunteer fi refi ghter’s event to off set the heat. So that’s something that we could expand on next time. Maybe we could have a cool water park-type feature.”
Prices of the fair are – fair, says Bond-archuk, considering there have been no major price hikes in midway or entry in recent years.
“Entry prices remain the same from last year,” she said. “Th e one increase was the midway. Armband prices rose from $35 at the fair, $30 in advance to $40 at the fair – but if you bought in advance it was $32.50. So that’s only up a couple of dollars and they haven’t raised the midway rates for years. Th is year the higher price was basically to cover the higher fuel costs in bringing all the heavy equipment up here.”
With another successful fair behind them, it is back to the drawing board in preparation for their fi rst meeting in Sep-tember to discuss the 2014 BCNE.
“We are proud of this year’s fair,” said Bonderchuk. “It’s a huge thing, people come from far and wide for the fair. It started out 100 years ago as a grassroots fair and it still is a grassroots fair. I am just blown away by people’s commitment to the fair, they want its success – for the next 100 years. I am so thankful for the volunteers, sponsors (business and corporations), youth groups and individuals who gave their time and resources. It shows it really is the people’s fair.”
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressYoung riders on the midway at the B.C. Northern Exhibition had a variety of responses to the thrills.
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New recycling regulations in B.C. will shift the cost of recycling from the government to the com-panies who produce the material beginning in 2014.
Allan Langdon, chair of Multi-Material B.C. said the province is the fourth jurisdiction in Canada to make the move, adding it’s been the norm in Europe for 20 years, though the program has yet to be put to use in the U.S.A.
He added the change means the brand owner will be responsible for paying for the cost of recycling its company’s products.
“So Tim Hortons is responsible for its cups, Safeway is responsible for its own packaging, meaning its own private label and whatever is imported by them into the prov-ince,” Langdon said. “Some of the larger companies, like Proctor and Gamble, have already stepped up and become voluntary stewards.”
Th e system to make the move work must track what is going into recycling and is complex.
“We are actually building off a system used in other jurisdic-tions,” he said. “We have a web portal in place. Some packaging is simple, others have diff erent components.”
He said both the weight and components need to be tracked.
“Th ere will be a fair level of
complexity in the system,” he said.One example of items set to be
included in the new system are newspapers. Th e owner of a paper is the one who owns the brand and is, therefore, responsible for the cost of recycling.
“So what we do is we try and track everything that is recycled and apportion the cost appropri-ately, depending on what it cost to recycle the material,” he said. “Newspapers are probably one of the easier materials to recycle, so they would be cheaper on a per unit basis. Plus there are well es-tablished markets for that material in Washington State and in the Far East.”
He said Multi-Material B.C. has to pay for the cost of the system, they have to pay the collectors and the processors a certain amount. Th is cost is passed on to those who are creating the material. Producers are also asked how much material they put into the market over the year. Th ose variables are used to apportion the cost to the various producers. So, they are charged based on the cost of the system as well as the volume and type of material they put into the market place.
For some companies, those that don’t have outlets in one of the four jurisdictions in Canada that have this system in place, this will be a brand new cost.
Despite this, Langdon said he
hasn’t heard many complaints about the idea behind the system, but there have been many ques-tions on how it will work.
“People are unfamiliar with the program,” he said. “Most people recognize if they are sell-ing this material, then there is
some responsibility on their part to ensure the material is being recycled.”
Instead questions surround how the system is used, how payments are calculated and what the sys-tem will look at at end of the day.
He added producers will prob-
ably be charged annually with quarterly installments.
In the end, he said the reason behind the system is to provide an incentive to producers to either reduce packaging or fi nd a way to make their packaging more recyclable.
BUICK Even more coming your way!GM’s legendary brand, Buick, has undergone an
incredible revival, and it is not yet over! Not only has Buick become a very important brand name in China, it has also made a huge comeback in North America.
It all began with the great looking Enclave CUV, which was slightly modernized for 2013. Still a great people mover able to carry seven or eight pas-sengers, this fi ne vehicle is powered by a revitalized V-6 engine. It won’t be featured in the GM catalogue alone, however, as in the coming months Buick deal-ers will be selling the much smaller Encore. This mini-CUV is destined mostly for city dwellers who need a luxury vehicle that matches today’s fuel requirements. It will be powered by a turbo-charged four-cylinder engine with front- or all-wheel drive and will be able to carry up to fi ve people.
Good news: Buick is still in the car business. Its biggest offer-ing remains the La Crosse sedan, available with a V-6 engine or an electric motor-assisted four-cylinder mill with front- or all-wheel drive. Then comes the mid-sized Regal, a European-inspired sedan with front- or
all-wheel drive. Its base engine is a regular four-cyl-inder powerplant, although there is also a new turbo-charged four-cylinder available as an option. But that’s not all: the Regal also comes in a GS model with an even more powerful turbo four-cylinder motor.
Buick’s smallest car is the recent Verano, a compact front-wheel sedan that comes with a standard four-cylinder or turbo charged engine
The Regal is a very popular car within the Buick family of products.The Regal is a very popular car within the Buick family of products.
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Th e Inter-American Commis-sion on Human Rights spent three days in Prince George last month talking to families of missing and murdered women, bringing more international attention to an issue that has been of concern for a long time, especially among the Aboriginal population, and high-lighted recently by the Human Rights Commission which issued a report breaking down many of the barriers facing indigenous women in northern B.C.
Mavis Erickson, the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council’s Women’s Advocate, said she was happy to agree to the visit and help set it up.
She added there was a lot of hope issues concerning Aborigi-nal women and their vulnerability would be addressed when the Oppal Commission was struck; however it seemed to primarily focus on the Pickton case, adding northern B.C., with its infamous Highway of Tears cases, as an aft erthought, then making it diffi cult to impossible for many organizations that advocate for northern B.C.’s Aboriginal women to participate. Considering it of-fered no funding opportunities for them to attend the inquiry.
Now, she added, the hope is there will be a national inquiry.
“I participated in the Human Rights Watch investigation and helped in coordinating that,” Erickson said. “I felt re-ally strongly for women when the Oppal com-mission came along. A lot of organizations weren’t able to get repre-sentation for the Oppal commission. It was really kind of a back-handed slap to people in the north.”
She added she thought investiga-tions by international organizations might be a way of achieving what families in the north wanted.
Th e Human Rights Watch gathered infor-mation and issued a re-port on various aspects of the issues Aboriginal woman face in northern B.C. Most recently the Inter American Com-mission on Human Rights expressed an interest at looking into local human rights violations concerning Aboriginal women, talk-ing with families of the missing and murdered, and Erickson jumped at the chance to make that happen.
“I immediately got in touch with the Inter American Commis-sion through the Native Women’s Association,”
she said. “Th ey wanted to come aft er reading the Amnesty Inter-national report, Sisters in Spirit.”
She added the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in the province were numbered at 136 then, and a follow-up report puts the number at 180 in B.C.
“Women are going missing and murdered in B.C. like nowhere else in the country. Th e govern-ment doesn’t seem concerned and doesn’t seem to have a plan, so it continues unchecked,” Erickson said. “I think that the interna-tional organization bring new eyes to the problem. Th e problem a Canadian commission would have is that the sexism and racism is so deeply ingrained, people don’t even recognize it in themselves.
“I think indigenous women in Canada are despised and hated.
As an example she talks about her niece taking a fall in Fort St. James, badly hurting her knees. Before the RCMP would help her, they made her take a Breathalyzer test.
“Racism is just so common-place, I think we normalized it,” she said. “And when someone goes missing we never thought to go to the RCMP because they never really helped before. Th ey were the ones who took us away (to residential schools).”
Barbara Morin, president of the B.C. Native Women’s Association, agrees. She said they were sup-
posed to be a part of the Oppal commission, but weren’t able to attend, even to give evidence. Now they are calling for a na-tional inquiry as well.
“A data base was started a number of years ago counting the number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. Th ey got to 600, then had to stop due to a lack of funding,” she said. “Most of the cases were in western provinces. Nearly half of the cases are unsolved, and we get more reported cases in diff erent provinces on a daily basis.”
When the data stopped coming in, the association called for a na-tional inquiry. At fi rst there was resistance, but when provincial premiers met in July, they also supported the idea.
“Th e cost of violence in Canada is extremely high,” Morin said. “Every time we have to address a spousal violence report, it costs the taxpayer money. We have to fi nd ways to reduce violence against women. Aboriginal women are fi ve times more likely to experience violence than the national average. Th e root cause of violence is racism and poverty, and if the woman lives in a re-mote community, there is no such thing as an emergency shelter.
“We have to ask if police proceed in a manner that gets a case of spousal violence to court. Right now women are scared to
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“I’m really looking forward to a new school year and I’m looking forward to no disruptions,” he said. “I know there’s been lots of talk about negotiations and the possibility of strike action on the part of CUPE.
He said he was hopeful nego-tiations set for Sept. 4 to 6 would resolve the problem.
He added plans are in the works to sit with teachers in October to begin discussions on a long-term agree-ment between the teachers and the province.
However, he added, in his position he is more interested in educational outcomes.
“We’ve been working on the B.C. education plan for quite a while now,
and we’ve been getting great input from teachers and other stakeholders in the system,” he said.
He added they want to see the implementation of the new regis-tered education fund, so every family with children in a certain fi nancial category can start saving, creating a fund leading to money saved for post-secondary education.
Working with Advanced Educa-tion, Jobs and Skills Training and Aboriginal Aff airs and Reconcilia-tion, he said they are looking at the skills training agenda.
“We are looking at the whole skills training agenda and how we can all participate in that particular initia-tive to show young people the op-portunities for skill training careers, which will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives,” Fassbender said. “We are really working hard on a number of new and innovative programs. We need to provide an improvement on one the best educa-tion systems in the country by being innovative and creative.”
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Th e offi cial opening of the Universal Boardwalk at the Ancient Forest near Dome Creek took place on Sunday, Aug. 4, and members of the Caledonia Ramblers Hiking Club out of Prince George were busy until the last minute putting on the fi nishing touches.
Th e new boardwalk enables visitors us-ing wheelchairs and others with physical or mental challenges to see parts of the lower section of the Ancient Forest.
“Th is Universal Boardwalk welcomes ev-eryone who wishes to see a portion of this unique inland temperate rainforest,” said Nowell Senior of the Caledonia Ramblers Hiking Club.
“Sunday’s opening of the Universal Boardwalk was a great success with about 500 visitors. Some of the visitors came with mobility challenges, but were able to access the forest like everyone else because the site is now fully accessible.”
Th e boardwalk, which is made of west-ern red cedar, is 1,600 feet long and took four summers to build.
“We began in May 2010 and ended on August 2, with the last of the signs being installed in readiness for the offi cial open-ing,” said Senior.
“Over these four years, 193 volunteers,
mostly Ramblers club members, but also some non-members, helped with the construction of the boardwalk and made a signifi cant contri-bution of volunteer labour.”
Senior said that soon aft er the Ancient Forest trail opened in 2006, it was obvious to him that the trail was not accessible to those with mobility chal-lenges.
“I worked in the special needs com-munity and I was therefore more sensitive to the need to make the Ancient Forest fully acces-sible,” he said.
“Several people suggested the idea of a wheelchair access into this rare and increasingly popular area over the last few years. However, the terrain of the present Ancient Forest Trail loop makes wheelchair access impossible. Th e proposed Universal
Boardwalk route has a very grad-ual and manage-able slope that makes it pos-sible as a wheelchair route. I have a particular interest in this project as my work involves children
and adults with physical and mental chal-lenges. I would like these people to have the same opportunity as everyone else to go into and experience this unique forest. Th e term ‘Universal Boardwalk’ appro-priately describes inclusive access – for those with or without certain challenges or limitations.”
Th e boardwalk begins at the east end of the Ancient Forest parking area and runs due east for 500 metres. It follows the existing Ancient Forest Trail for 200 metres, then a further 300 metres along the Driscoll Trail, terminating at a platform beside a beautiful mountain stream.
Funding for the Universal Boardwalk in the form of grants, donations and in-kind contributions (not including volunteer labour) came from over 50 sources.
Th e Ancient Forest is part of a globally unique inland wet-temperate rainfor-est. Th e age of some of the older trees is approximately 1,000 years old, but pos-sibly much older. Some of the biggest trees
measure 46.5 feet around and are 16 feet in diameter. Th ere are also many trees with 10 to 13 feet in diameter.
Th e trail head to the Ancient Forest Interpretive Trail is located on the south side of Highway 16, 6.6 km west of the Slim Creek rest area. Th e trailhead parking lot is in an abandoned gravel quarry.
“Th e trail off ers several options rang-ing from the ‘out and back’ 20-minute walk on the boardwalk; the 30-minute Big Tree Loop; the waterfall, Tree Beard Loop, which takes about 60 minutes, or the entire Ancient Forest Loop, which takes approxi-mately 90 minutes,” said Senior.
“Visitors may also explore a portion of the Driscoll Trail which extends beyond the east end of the Universal Boardwalk for a total of 15 kilometres.”
Since the opening of the Ancient Forest Interpretive Trail in 2006, the site has be-come increasingly popular amongst locals and tourists alike, and in 2012, there were 12,000 visitors to the Ancient Forest Trail.
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Photo courtesy of Caledonia RamblersAbout 500 people were out at the Ancient Forest on Aug. 4 for the opening of the Universal Boardwalk, which allows access to the area for people with disabilities.
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Nothing shines brighter than platinum.
The University of Northern British Columbia’s bioen-ergy plant achieved platinum certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating from the Canada Green Building council.
This is the first time a uni-versity building in B.C. has achieved platinum status, and the fourth time in Canada.
University president George Iwama said he is proud the plant received the certifica-tion.
“It is very difficult to achieve LEED platinum certification,” he said. “This is one of just 23 such certified buildings in Canada and only the third building in Prince George to achieve any LEED certifica-tion. This is a great accom-plishment for northern B.C.”
Karen Marler of Hughes Condon Marler Architects, the firm that designed the build-ing, explained some of the highlights lead-ing to the certification.
From using fly ash in the concrete, mean-ing less cement, to recycled steel in the construction, she said what they did was take a three-storey building and sink it into the hill it sits on.
Used for gasification and storing fuel on the lower stories, the top floor, which overlooks the campus from its perch atop a steep hill that backs into the forest, is the research and laboratory portion of the facil-ity.
Recent discoveries from that lab have shown the ash left over after the plant burns the biomass it uses to feed the system pro-motes increased growth in trees, up to two times as fast as a tree planted in regular soil.
Below the lab lay the inner workings of the plant.
Two-by-four and two-by-six laminate beams create the deck but are also useful as ceiling finish, and alleviate sound attenua-tion.
Incorporating wood into the design pro-cess, building responsibly and diverting 38 tonnes of material from the landfill, Marler said the building had to achieve at least gold status, and it had to be beautiful, taking ad-vantage of the natural view it incorporated.
It exceeded all goals, Iwama said.Ongoing operational efficiencies added
to the sustainability of the structure. Marler said when compared to the case study used as a standard, the bioenergy plant uses 61 per cent less energy than expected.
The plant began heating the campus in March 2011. Featuring gasification tech-nology and using sawmill residue from Lakeland Mills as well as 4,100 tonnes of hog fuel in 2012, the plant produces about 62,000 gigajoules of energy, offsetting close to 90 per cent of the university’s fossil fuel consumption for heating the buildings con-nected to the district energy system.
Iwama said applying the lessons the facil-ity teaches to northerners may mean small versions of the plant being built in sur-rounding communities.
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We call it Styrofoam, but that’s actually the Dow Chemical trade-marked name for poly-styrene, a lightweight, strong material perfect for use in packaging material, yet diffi cult to recycle.
It doesn’t break down. In fact, without the use of a solvent, this petroleum-based product lasts almost forever.
At one time thought to be completely use-less, there are compa-nies and districts in-volved in recycling the product. In the Lower Mainland, Westcoast Recycling will pick it up to be re-used in fi reproofi ng material, picture frames and decorative mouldings. Th e Regional District of North Okanagan recently held a Sty-rofoam round-up. In Victoria a pilot project was set up in 2011 to divert Styrofoam from the land fi ll.
Locally there isn’t a recycling program for Styrofoam, though one is in the works, set to begin in May 2014. However an innova-tive resident has found a way to re-use the product, and he’d like to share the knowledge as well as fi nd more Styrofoam to fi nish his project.
Mattias Zapletal is an in-novator who lives out on Chief Lake Road and who already grows his own fi sh and year-round garden, utilizing a aqua-ponics system. Basically, the system is self-sustaining. Th e waste from the fi sh combined with appropriate bacteria feed the garden. Th e water con-tinues cycling, with only the occasional top-up needed.
“I have a greenhouse and use an aquaponics system. I grow a lot of greens, and I have left over stems when I harvest. Last year I started to feed chickens with it.
“Up here in winter it’s cold. I have greens the whole year around. I can’t stop the system and start it over again.”
He explained he grows fi sh. Th e waste goes into a reactor to break down and become nutrition for the plants. Th e water fi lters, then goes back to the fi sh tank.
“I don’t discard anything,” he said. “I have to run it the whole year because it takes a long time for the bacteria or biofi lter system to start to work.
“It’s possible, even here, to
grow year round in a green-house, but then I had left over greens. So I bought an old chicken house. It was kind of insulated with fi breglas, but in a year with that it would be fi lled with rodents. I had to fi gure out a better insulation. I could have used sawdust, but the problem is if it gets a bit moist, then it starts to rot.”
Th is led him to doing a bit of research. Before long he discovered the benefi ts of us-ing Styrofoam and decided to fi ll the walls with the material aft er shred-ding it.
“I built a chicken house with a double wall, a 2x4 studded wall on the outside, and one foot inside built another wall.”
Th en he started col-lecting Styro-foam. Th at’s when he hit his fi rst wall, so to speak. Every busi-ness he went to told him they put their Styrofoam into recycling.
At that point he called the regional district and found out it gets dumped into the landfi ll because there was no recycling plan in place for Styrofoam. Th ey declined to let him use what they collected.
Zapletal shared the written response he received from the regional district when he asked if he could collect the Styrofoam from the landfi ll.
“...we regret to inform you that the regional district has no capacity to engage in any additional collection streams
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at our landfi ll, including Styro-foam. Past experience has shown these types of initiatives create space challenges and tie up staff time with managing and sorting the collection area. Th e landfi ll is extremely busy and our limited staff resources are most eff ectively assigned to landfi ll operations and dealing with the public and com-mercial users as they enter and exit the landfi ll property.”
Zapletal was disappointed with the decision, but didn’t stop there.
Aft er mulling the problem over, he approached the shipping/receiv-ing department at UNBC, and they agreed to save the Styrofoam for him.
He began using his chipper to shred the Styrofoam, fi nishing it off with a mulcher that broke it into gravely bits all diff erent in size, ensuring it doesn’t create an electrostatic load. Th en he hooked up a shop vacuum to the wood
chipper and blew it into the walls.“It works great. It nicely fi lled up
the wall,” he said. “What’s nice is it’s seamless insulation from fl oor through the walls up to the ceiling since there will be no connections between the inside and outside frame. It’s complete insulation.”
Th e problem is he used every bit of the prodigious amount of Sty-rofoam he collected, and the walls are still only half full.
“I called the regional district again and asked what was going on,” he said.
He added he was told a system would be in place by 2014. Until then the Styrofoam goes into the landfi ll.
Th at is not something he wants to see. Not only does he need more Styrofoam, but he’s learned that, unlike previously thought, it can be a very useful substance recycled, particularly if used as a low-budget insulation.
Photo courtesy of Mattias ZapletalMattias Zapletal re-uses Styrofoam as insulation, but is having some trouble collecting it.
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