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Catalog Number |
P38558 |
Description |
Loading baled cardboard for shipment is Gerry Wiebe, Community Enterprises workshop supervisor. Matsqui's landfill would have got an extra 100 tonnes of paper a month, in addition to the 500 tonnes it received at the time of this photo, if it was not for the Community Enterprises recycling operation of the non-profit Matsqui-Abbotsford Community Services. Those figures came from John Richards, manager of Community Enterprises and an appointee to the recycling committee of the Lower Mainland Refuse Project. He estimated that dump space saved by the recycled paper amounted to a "conservative 1,000 cubic yards." Community Enterprises also started collecting donated glass for recycling in January, and had been getting about eight tonnes a month-about 21 cubic yards. Richards stated that approximately 20 per cent of material going to Matsqui's landfill was paper and five per cent was glass. Since his appointment as manager when Community Enterprises was formed 18 months prior to the date of this photo, he had been trying to make it into a cost-effective business as well as a training ground for people who were physically disabled or at a disadvantage in obtaining employment. Moreover, Community Enterprise received a lot of community support-more than $12,000 worth from its inception. The donations included a truck from Emmanuel Mennonite Church, a forklift from Abbotsford Lions Club, a paper shredder from Rotary Club of Abbotsford, a baler from Pacific Coast Manufacturing and operating equipment from Ritchie and Abbotsford Eagles. With the aid of the community and Gerry Wiebe, 22, Richards felt they had achieved the goals they set out -- and in some areas, exceeded them. Image not published. |
Date |
3/28/1984 |
Photographer |
Bonnie Bucholtz |
Object Name |
Negative |
Collection |
ASM/Abbotsford News Collection |
Source |
Abbotsford News |
People |
Wiebe, Gerry |