; : : Bis day.

Local resident Veraiyan Munson

wt Special Waste Advisory Committ

met with Dr. David ayes, Chalman of ine
, during the committee's recent stop In Tar-

@ace. Boyes, a world-famous Vancouver cancer specialist, describes himasit

a ‘committed environmentalist.

Committee
continued from page 1

im Vancouver to collaborate in
@isposing of highly toxic sludge
“* gemerated by the use of cleaning
chemicals. The sludge had to be
shipped out to a treatment plant
im the United States, and the
@leaners were forced to abandon
the program when transporta-
=. ton costs reached $1,200 per
~, 4$-gallon drum.

Safe disposal of toxic house-

Blood ©
donors

Mas#yn Anderson, Co-Chairman of
tha-Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic to
be. held at the ET. Kenney Primary
Schoo! on July 26, aske residents to
participate by giving blood,

TERRACE —The Red Cross
will be holding a blood donor. .
clinic: on Wednesday, July 29.
from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at E.T.
Kenney Primary School.

Local residents are being ask-
ed::to. contribute blood to the.
society to maintain an adequate ©
Jevel. of supplies for the prov-
iace's health care system. :

The Red Cross is a sole sup-
“Of blood to 80 hospitals in

C. and the Yukon, a demand
which calls for 600 donors per

we Blood reseives at best are only
He wafficient for two to three days

it, demand, and during an emer-

Bye an fall below a day’ 8 sup

-. This year’s clinic is the second.
be held in Terrace during the

four years. .

This year’s event will be host-
by 45 volunteers who will reg-
deter, seat and serve donors -
‘Safore and after they give blood.
doatipersont of the blood dence
n of the onor

"ialc, recent. pubdlic response is
eatficient to make the clinic an

' cer mortality :
to collate because of the lengthy: .

hold garbage and ecologically- |.

conscious recycling of. waste
materials is almost impossible in
B.C., he said. Even in the urban
centers of the lower mainland
commercial recycling is restrict-
ed to metals and cans. An inven-
tory of hazardous wastes in B.C.
taken by the consulting firm of
Reed-Crowther estimated that
70,000 tons of poisonous, in-
flammable, explosive, reactive,
corrosive, carcinogenic and

‘Otherwise harmful. substances
‘are thrown out in B.C. every

year, but Boyes said no one
knowns for sure exactly how
much special waste there is, and.

much of it goes into’ sewers and

municipal dumps. -

Boyes said the technology ex-"
ists to deal with special: wastes,
and the new disposal plant in
‘Swan Hills, Alta., is the best in
the world. "Part of his commit-
tée’s function, he noted, is to
gather proposals for the. con-
struction of a similar facility in
B.C. The Swan Hills plant uses a
number of techniques, including
high-temperature incineration
and chemical treatment, to
neutralize the waste, .

The stop in Terrace was part
of an 11-destination tour of the
province by the committee, and
Boyes indicated he had received
expressions of interest from five
communities that are willing to
consider providing a home for
such a disposal plant.’ Boyes.
declined to name the commun-
ities and said all of them had re-
quested confidentiality at ‘this:
stage.

Boyes also expressed admira-
tion for the approach to special
wastes used in Denmark... “It’s

Lae! Hamilton (c temie} an a member of the Ministry of Environment's Special Waste Advieory Commiites, diacussed focal
‘aij and Alex Bolton at the committes’s open house held recently at the

concems with

errace residents Cecelia Batag

Inn of the West. The background display explains the workings of a new hazardous waste treatment and disposal plant

In Swan Hilis, Alta. The committee ig Investigating ih

the possibility of establishing a similar plant in B.C,

TERRACE PROPOSED
AS PLANT SITE

TERRACE — Ald. Ruth
Hallock has asked the Strategic
Planning Committee to take a

‘look at Swan Hills, Alta.

The small prairie community
has turned hazardous waste into
a safe and profitable business,
and Hallock thinks it may be
worth investigating. a’ similar

* operation in the Northwest. .
Although Hallock is aware of

the controversy surrounding
hazardous wastes, she said told
council. that the province was

looking for a site and, if it can

be handled safely, it could be a

‘highly profitable business.

According to Hallock, the
Alberta government built a dis-
posal plant at the Swan Hills site
valued at between $40 to. $60
million, and it has turned into an
economic windfall for the com-
munity,

time lag, often decades, between
the initial insult and the develop-
ment of cancer,’? Boyes said.
**We do know that PCP (pen-
tochlorophenol) . and PCB's

(polylchlorinated: biphenyls) are
carcinogens: in animals, » but
much of the special waste is tox-
ic rather than carcinogenic. We

have a particular concern about

heavy metals, such as lead and
mercury, because we know what
their effects are.on humans,
We'd rather prevent the. disper-
sal of these wastes than: have to
clean them up once they’re in the
environment.’”

When asked what the govern-
ment’s role should be in dispos-.
ing. of hazardous waste and re-

‘superbly organized, and every- J
one uses it,’’ he said. ‘There are .
more than 200' collection sites &
throughout the pe country thatfeed &

into a single ditposal plant.”

In addition to seeking disposal © |

‘methods the committee is also. &
examining ways of reducing the §

quantity of special wastes

created. Boyes said there is

money available for research

gtants to examine substitute. a
‘compounds for toxic and hazar-.

-dous materials presently used..
He also suggested the establish-
ment of a ‘waste exchange”, a

system in which special vastes
generated by one business might
be used in the production pro-

cess of another business. As an . :

example he said acid wastes
created as a byproduct .of many
manufacturing: processes could
be sold to a company that makes
batteries.

The behavior of special wastes
in the environment and their ef-
fects on human health is largely
unknown. “In a sense, there
_ have been studies done. We have
a world-class project underway
on cancer in the workplace in
* conjunction with the Workers’
Compensation Board, and can-

mapping has been

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ducing: the amount created,

Boyes said the: government
should establish regulations that ©
- put the financial burden for dis-

posal on the generator of the
waste. The cost, he said, would
encourage industry to seek its
own solutions: “If you live in a
capitalistic society, you might as
well make it work for you,”’ he

‘remarked.:

The problem is far wider than

_industry, however. Boyes noted

that the City of Victoria has oc
sewage treatment facility at all

and discharges its raw waste into
the Juan de: Fuca Strait. There
are 26 communties that dump
raw sewage into the Fraser

River, ‘home for. the _lareest .

salmon run on the west coast.
During the four-hour open

~ house in Terrace, Boyes and his

fellow committee member, Mrs.
Lael Hamilton, spoke to more |
than 30 concerned local reai-
dents. Boyes said one problem
specific to the Terrace area is the
high volume of pen-
tochlorophenol used asa wood
preservative in sawmilling.
operations. In addition to ite
toxic properties the chemical
also produces deadly dioxins if -
its is burned at any temperature
under 1,200 degrees centigrade.
Two substitute compounds
dre currently being tested, but as
yet neither have been given regis-.
tration by regulatory agencies.
Boyes concluded by saying the
committee’s biggest job is public
education. ‘*The public has to
want a solution to this problem,
otherwise it’s a waste of time,” —
he said, and added that an infor-
mation package is being design-
ed for schools, and it will be in
classrooms throughout B.C, this
fall.
The Special Waste Advisasy
Committee will continue accep-

‘ting written submissions from

the public until the end of |
September. Another series of
public meetings is planned for.
October, and the committee's

_ final report will go to the ©
Minister of Environment and

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