Thank you, Mr. Chairman. One of the big problems we are having in our communities is dealing with disposable waste. There is a no burn policy now that you are not allowed to burn the garbage at the garbage dumps. What we are finding in a lot of our communities is that they are now overflowing and basically having to move to different locations. There are a lot of vehicles, tires, old batteries, different wood products, old barrels and stuff at these garbage dumps. I think that, at some point, someone has to clean it up.
At one time, I thought the government was looking at a big mulcher that they were going to take to the different communities and drop it off and then go to another community. I know that it is something that they were talking about back in the 13th Assembly.
It was a program that they had in place, but then all of a sudden we haven’t heard anything of it. I am just wondering, what is the community doing to find ways to recycle old waste by way of products that can be recycled or even mulched to a point where you can put it on a barge and ship it south by way of different types of metals or, even Mrs. Groenewegen mentioned, tires and stuff like that? Those things you can leave in those different communities, but, again, they are an eye sore in most communities because you have nowhere else to put them.
I think the government has to have a plan in place of how do you dispose of a lot of this stuff than simply just hauling it out to the dump and leaving it there. What is the government doing? They used to have a program that they looked at sort of mulchers to deal with barrels and other things in communities. Why hasn’t that program been reinstated?