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[sil.]

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We always thought we could just throw things away
and… and we never thought about the landfill

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and now we\'re thinking about the landfill a
lot more. All my life I had been convinced

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that I had to buy this stuff and now it was like, \"Hey, wait a
minute. I don\'t have to buy this stuff. There are alternatives.

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I don\'t have to produce
garbage.\" We forget that the…

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the real change is gonna happen at the most immediate level of
6 billion people changing the ways they live on the planet.

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The Tomachich family have
changed the way they live.

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Unhappy with the amount of garbage they
were leaving on the curb each week,

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they tackled the problem.

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I\'d like to welcome you to our home here on the
Hall Street. Now people come to them for advice.

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To start our workshop, we\'d
like to introduce ourselves.

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Michelle and Michael. We\'ve lived here for about
four years now and since moving to Maple Ridge,

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we have gone from having an active interest
to being very committed in recycling

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and hence we\'ve started these
workshops on a weekly basis.

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Uh… We generally start by asking you to introduce
yourselves and to what extent you\'re already recycling.

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All within about a minute or so. Recently, I guess we\'ve got
a blue boxes and I\'ve noticed that they don\'t quite recycle

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as much stuff like this. Not mixed
paper and things like that.

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But… Yeah, we\'ve been trying fairly successfully, sometimes
we get really frustrated, and just throw everything out.

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I can really sympathize
with you when you say

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every once in a while you just get
fed up and throw out the whole works

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because when we first started that
was definitely what we did here.

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But now we\'ve gotten to the point that it\'s too important
to us. It\'s too much of a part of our lifestyle.

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Umm… I don\'t think I could throughout a tin now if my life depended on it.
I mean, it has to be recycled. You know, it was a very gradual process.

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We certainly didn\'t do it like
overnight or over a week,

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it was months and months and months, with
slow step at a time changes in our lifestyle,

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and the kids helped a lot. I mean, the kids are just super.
Once you tell kids what we\'re doing and why we\'re doing it,

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it\'s like they were the ones to find that
all these changes that were possible.

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[sil.]

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Recycling is we\'re going to start in the
first thing to mention is composting

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and that\'s an area where you can
reduce your residential waste

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by about a third… about 30% or so,
simply by taking all the kitchen waste

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everything from leftover vegetable peelings and coffee grounds
and tea leaves and egg shells and so on and so forth.

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But what we do is we just
keep them in a plastic bucket

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with a lid on it and about
once every second day or so,

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someone in the family house it out
into the compost in the backyard.

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After a few months, we\'ll remove
that nutritious rich soil,

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put it back into our raised beds.

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Okay. Second category
of recycling is glass.

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That\'s pretty straightforward.
They clear the brown

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and the green is what is picked up.
Umm… Things like light bulbs

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are not recyclable, window paints, you
would have to take them into newest glass.

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Umm… Mirror is not recyclable,
neon tubes that type of thing,

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so basically, it\'s a clear, the brown
and green that you\'re talking about.

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It has to be clean.

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We don\'t have to take off labels and as far as I
know, no one else does. Check with your people.

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[sil.]

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Okay. Another category that\'s recyclable
and picked up at the curb in our case

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and by the rich minerals recycling society and I saw
the metal, including the lids off of the glass jars,

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including any tin cans that
contained food or cat food

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because the hardest one to clean is the cat
food and that\'s one that we are asked to

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ensure that we do is make sure that
the inside of the cans are clean.

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So we near the end of the washing the dishes, we just
make sure that these get rinsed out with soapy hot water

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and then flatten just simply to
save space on the truck(inaudible).

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Umm… These are a little bit of a problem, these are these
lightweight cans made up of a number of different metals,

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they\'re seamless and they\'re getting to be more
and more common in the store. Now the problem

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with them in terms of recycling is that they\'re made up of a
number of metals and I guess they proved to be a contaminant,

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so our depots asking us to try and
avoid using these as packaging.

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We can still put them in with the
metals and we don\'t have to worry

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about squishing them down because
they\'re… they\'re seamless.

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Likewise, any lids from jarring
if you\'re doing any canning,

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umm… the lids are recyclable. This part here, it doesn\'t matter
that it has the rubber, it still goes in with the recyclables.

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This, of course, is reused over and over.
Umm… And another category

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is pie plates or any tinfoil.

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Our first category of paper is newspaper,

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uh… as well as the… the regular kind of newspaper
like province in (inaudible), etcetera.

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Things like the… the colored
advertising is also included.

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As long as it\'s not shiny like a catalogue or
magazine, you can usually tell, like it\'s high gloss,

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it goes into shiny or intermix paper
but things like this are okay.

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You can tell one by the smell of it,
it smells like newsprint. And two,

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they\'ve got the rough edges, the serrated edges. Okay.
Also, you can tell, umm… some of the advertising

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has… is stapled together, they may be slim like this but they are stapled,
that\'s also a good indication that it should be into your shiny pile.

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[sil.]

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Okay. So that\'s taken
care of composting glass,

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metal and newspaper. The glass, metal and newspaper in
many municipalities are being picked up at the curb

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and in some cases also hard plastics.

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Not everyone has curbside pickup.

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But most municipalities
do have drop off depots.

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Whether we have curbside pickup
or not, the key to getting

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recyclables out of the landfill
is to make recycling easy.

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Okay. This is our kitchen
system under here.

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We have a ice cream bucket
that we keep our compost into.

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We empty that about every second day.

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We keep a brown paper bag under here for everything
dry, like everything gets thrown in here.

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We found that because we have so
many people come into our home

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that having a bag for everything under
here, things were getting thrown in,

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my coffee grounds into the tin box and
I was just resorting numerous times

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so everything dry gets thrown into here.
Then we have a box

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that this is for clean dry reusable plastic bags, we\'ll
be using them either for shopping or for the freezer.

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Then, if everybody would like
to move it onto the sun deck,

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we can see where I sort
things throughout there.

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Okay. This is our system,

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such as it is. We\'ve got
cardboard, shiny ledger, plastic

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and here we\'ve got the tin,
the glass, the newsprint,

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fabric. It\'s very simple, we
have changed the number of times

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but it just kind of figure out
what\'s right for your family.

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Recycling has become a household word,

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but the glass, metal and
newspaper are just a beginning.

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We can recycle most of our garbage.

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Our processing facility
is primarily our location

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for sorting materials and
packaging them for market,

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but there\'s other materials that can be
recycled that are not collected at curbside,

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and those materials such as cardboard,

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umm… the bond… bond paper, you
find papers from… from offices.

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White goods, fridges,
stoves, hot water, heaters,

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all kinds of scrap metal, those materials most
communities in Canada have got drop-off depots.

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So now we\'ve got a whole
bucket for a little paper…

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The paper-making workshop is
a very hands-on experience

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of how the… the recycling loop is closed.

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That\'s it. Perfect. I do the workshops

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because I think it really helps
people to see the whole process

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and to be part of the process.
You can… you can say to a kid,

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you know, see what you\'re doing, that\'s the same thing
that… that a… that a paper mill does. Press real hard.

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And so you use those muscles.

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So if they can… they can see at an early age
that what they do can affect what goes on.

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Then, they\'re gonna take that… that
skill with them to… to adult life.

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And… and as an environmentalist, I want
to make sure that the children going up

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are going to know that they can make that difference
and they\'re going to be there to act when I\'m gone.

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Jasmine, you wanna go and put it somewhere
safe? Okay. Whose piece is that?

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Mine. And now will going to the
secondary which is reusing,

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when we feel is even more important than
recycling. The ways that we reuse materials

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that are brought into our home, as
we\'ve mentioned before plastic bags,

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we don\'t make a point of bringing plastic
bags into the home but if they do get into…

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into our house, we make a point of reusing them over and
over again until… until they\'re no longer reusable.

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Other things like hard plastic that comes into the house like these
yogurt containers and cottage cheese and sour cream and so on.

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They… they too are reused. Any
paper that comes into the house,

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correspondence letters, add
mail and stuff like that,

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that\'s only printed on one side we make a point of using
the other side before we put it into the recycling bin.

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A cartons

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that come into the house, we don\'t
recycle, we always reuse those.

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Something that Michael does constantly he\'s
carrying his own mug wherever he goes,

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he carries his own mug and I usually have a plastic glasses
I don\'t drink coffee or tea, but it\'s a little thing

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but it does make a difference.
We always take our own bags,

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preferably the cloth bags when you go
shopping to put your groceries in.

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One other one is the milk bottles

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that we purchased through Avalon. In
fact, here we get them delivered.

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So those are a few of the ways

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that we reuse materials that come into our home. It\'s not a
complete list, we\'re constantly working on looking at ways

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of creatively reusing things that come into our home,
or if not within the home but within the community.

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Hey! We have talked about recycling,
we\'ve talked about reusing,

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but Michael and I feel the most
important one is reducing.

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We have gotten our garbage down to 1.5
bags a year, not by recycling alone.

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It\'s by reducing. We simply
don\'t buy the stuff anymore.

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I do a month end shop. I only do shopping once a
month for grocery kind of things, like (inaudible).

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And three years ago I would go in there
and I will fill up two shopping carts.

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But now I\'m down to about half of
one cart and that\'s for a month.

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We buy a lot more (inaudible) but that\'s it for
groceries about half a half a cart a month.

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And I\'m convinced that most of the…
the rest was simply packaging.

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Packaging that we simply
didn\'t need to be buying.

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We as a… an industry realize

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we do have many cases of examples of
over packaging and wrong packaging.

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Umm… We\'re not experts in that field.
Ruth Lotzkar is a knowledge expert.

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So this is the type of thing
you\'re talking about, Ruth?

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It certainly is and I feel that\'s a good example of
an over packaged dog bone because of the bubble pack,

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the big cardboard, the whole thing,

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it\'s even got a plastic liner at the back so that it
hangs out, could be done in far less packaging in this.

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Okay. When you\'re shopping,
look for minimal packaging,

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uh… read the contents is the packaging,

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umm… is the packaging made
out of recycled material,

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umm… is it a recyclable material itself, umm… those are the kind of
questions you may ask yourself why you\'re in there are stores shop in bulk.

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Umm… If you want to reduce packaging shop in bulk.
I\'m just curious to know how you reduced your volume

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in the grocery store by… by over
50% and suddenly your selection.

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I know sometimes I try and do that by… by
rejecting items at the packaging as objectionable

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to but I still end up with a bag
full or a basket full of plastics.

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More and more of that that\'s getting really difficult.
Like I\'m finding even oil, like cooking oil,

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like there\'s like two different brands that you
combine glass now and before it was all in glass,

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so at this point we just kinda recommend that you try,
it\'s real tough, but try to avoid buying plastic at all.

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By the year 2000, it\'s going to be…

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there\'s going to be a lot more plastics in the waste
stream then we see now, and one of the major concerns

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is that it\'s going to replace more traditionally
and viably refillable and recyclable packaging.

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As well consumers seem to have
a hate for a lot of plastics

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and the plastics that they don\'t like, that they
would like to see band and so on are plastics

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that are throwaway plastics. They end up in the litter,
we see them all the time, they\'re highly visible.

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Things such as fast food,
polystyrene foam items

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that we all see on the road side.

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I want to say that there are plastics that are
useful and some of them are useful in packaging.

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[sil.]

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Good packaging is one element of
a green product, more important

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is what\'s inside.

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How do we know what to buy
from the green shelf?

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There are a whole list of…
of new slogans creeping

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in to the marketplace environmentally
friendly green products.

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We have to we have to be very
discriminating ourselves as shoppers

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and as consumers to look beyond the… the
mask of a green product. To that end

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there are a number of books that are
being made available were whereby

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one can very quickly, get oneself up to speed and
become a very educated environmental shopper.

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There\'s a particular laundry soap
presently where the only disclosure

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on the whole product is phosphate free. This particular
product presents itself as being a green product.

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If you look closely there is no more disclosure on
that package as to what is or isn\'t in that product.

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And if you do a serious look
at the damaging ingredients

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that could be in a laundry detergent, there are… there are
many ingredients which make phosphate look quite friendly.

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The cleaning of our home, and the kitchen

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and then all the different rooms are now done
by using what we feel are safe cleaners.

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You know, six different products
next in various recipes.

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The first one that I use the most of is the
baking soda and this, we no longer buy it in box.

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We buy it in bulk. Okay. It\'s just
the same as the scouring powder.

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Use it for everything in the
kitchen, everything in the bathroom,

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smells great and safe.
Soap flakes or safe(ph),

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I use that a lot for laundry. There
biodegradable and they\'re phosphate free.

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Super washing soda,

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Arm and Hammer, our grandmothers used
to use this stuff. It\'s a whitener,

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it\'s a bleach alternative. Okay. Putting this and
borax together, that\'s what you want to use…

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want to use for your dishwashers. Okay. It\'s
great. I don\'t have a dishwasher but I\'m told.

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It works really well. Borax,
it\'s a fabric softener,

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it\'s also a heavy cleaner.

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Mixing ammonia which I use very
little out but I\'m told it\'s safe

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but don\'t breathe it while you\'re using it.
Ammonia this

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and a bit of the soap and for heavy cleaning
floors and walls and things like that

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and the last thing is plain old vinegar. We use
that for mirrors in windows and things like that.

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So those are safe,

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as safe as we have found anyway.

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The Tomachich family and others like them have
had an impact far beyond their own living rooms.

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We\'ve got a paper that\'s collected from

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a actual recycling program rather than… It
doesn\'t make any sense to… to talk about

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the environmental crisis if we don\'t
make it a reality in our own lives

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as individuals and families but also a wonderful
challenges is for any business which is…

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which in a sense is also an ecosystem.
You take your own environment via your…

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your home or your business, you look
at it as a closed system and you see

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how much garbage you\'re producing, how much do you
disposing. To what extent is your own little corner

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of the ecosystem not in harmony.

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Industry and environment have to work
together. There is no other choice.

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We are establishing a…

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a store recycling program.

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What we\'ve done is we\'ve designated
a recycling clerk within the store

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to recycle our own waste that we produce.

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Industry definitely has to set an example
and then the whole environmental area.

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We have to look after our own waste before we can point fingers
at other people, we have to look after our own backyard first.

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(inaudible), how can I help you? As more and more people
realize we\'re all on the same side in this battle,

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commitment to the environment is spreading.

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People are taking action.
They\'re speaking out.

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We started writing letters to politicians,

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umm… we\'re petitioning the school board
to start using recycled photocopy paper.

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We\'ve put on a green week for our school
where we set up information booths

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and how to compost, how to start recycling in your home.
But it is people\'s attitudes at the toughest to change,

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umm… you find that sometimes even if you give people
the most convenient choice and it\'s the best choice.

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They\'ll still pick one that they\'re used to. This thing for
students to do to stop their paper in the recycling box

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and it\'s a good… it\'s a good
start for a… for a club.

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I think it\'s really important to realize that
small initiatives on individual\'s behalf

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can really change the
whole situation around.

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It\'s like if everyone starts recycling paper and then a whole
forest doesn\'t have to be logged. My dad, I mean, he\'ll say,

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\"Well, I\'m concerned about the environment that\'s
great, but am I gonna have to pay more money.\"

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I think that the environmental impact is a very important thing
that people are gonna have to look at and see it as a cost,

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not just as, like as a society costs,
not just as an individual cost.

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We honestly believe

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that we\'re running out of time and we have
got to change. We have got to turn around

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because I do… I… you know,
my kids, they\'re so little

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and they need a chance and I would really like
to have grandchildren one day. Pick a place,

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recycling or what. You know, even recycling
one thing. Pick that place and once you start

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then it will evolve in all
directions and as the…

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the awareness and the action evolved from that,
it touches everybody you come into contact

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with like your… your kids, and your
spouse, and your parents and you know,

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and then you take it into the workplace and into the
school, and it just keeps moving in all directions

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and it is an evolution and that\'s why
we\'re, you know, we always stress

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take it one step at a time, you can\'t do it overnight.
But take a one step enable, evolve from there.

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