Editor:
Barb and I, at Gibsons Recycling, have received several complaints from fellow citizens in Gibsons getting calls about the recycling survey. First of all, in our opinion, the survey is biased and dumbed down and is a waste of more of our tax dollars and not statistically relevant. The questions are leading towards curbside collection. Our tax dollars are being wasted and after the recent Recycling Council of B.C. conference on zero waste, the board members on the RCBC made it clear that "surveys and draft options are to not precede the results from the working groups." Yet, recycling draft options were released last year and now another survey. This reminds us of the Quebec Referendum. They keep holding referendums until the desired results are achieved.
The Sunshine Coast is but one of two communities (Nelson is the other) in all of B.C. to sign up for zero waste. Yet nothing in the past seven years has been remotely close to that.
We either support zero waste or we don't. Our elected "leaders" claimed last election that being sustainable is very important to them, but we have had no sustainable recycling options proposed in our community and only curbside collection and unmanned bins at the malls - both unsustainable on their own.
After comprehensive education and implementation of resource recovery facilities in Pender Harbour, Sechelt and Gibsons, then we can look at some form of curbside, but curbside collection on its own is unsustainable. The cart is before the horse.
Buddy Boyd
Gibsons Recycling
