BURNABY (NEWS1130) - It's your chance to tell Metro Vancouver your thoughts on its controversial waste management plan. If the plan is approved, an additional half-a-million tons of trash would be incinerated each year.
Ben West from the Wilderness Committee feels burning garbage is not the way to go and the focus should be on recycling.
He says there's always going to be some residual leftover. "What we suggest, is we do a much more responsible job of dealing with landfills. If we stop dumping stuff in our landfills tomorrow, there's still going to be methane to deal with."
West feels burning garbage with a "waste-to-energy facility," is simply the wrong direction to go. Metro Vancouver's final public consultation is 7 p.m. Wednesday at their board office on Kingsway in Burnaby.
The Regional District is expected to vote on the incinerator plan July 30th. It would then need the approval by the provincial Ministry of Environment.