‘A waste’
Dear Editor:
The Elora Festival Book Sale is coming up on May 1. We are grateful for the steady stream of book donations throughout the year but last week we hit a snag.
Every week we fill six or more blue boxes (now two wheelie bins) with books in poor condition, textbooks, magazines and much more. Anything we can’t recycle gets taken to the dump.
Last week Waste Management suddenly stopped accepting books for recycling, leaving us with no option but to truck all this material to the dump where it is added to general waste. A waste indeed!
We are hopeful that this decision will be reversed, paper from books will once again be diverted from the landfill and recycled, and more trees will not be cut down to maintain our paper consumption.
Karen Eddie,
Guelph/Eramosa
