Editor:
It's Earth Day 2009, and I would like to commend Stacy Benson of Wheatberries (Vintage) Bakery/Cafe for being the first take-out food and beverage vendor along the Upper Gibsons strip to have both recyclable coffee cups and a recycling box set out for customer use. You have raised the bar.
Kudos also to Tim Hortons, which has recently installed a bank of recycling bins in their Gibsons store.
The spring clean-up of litter from roadsides, ditches and streams of our community by volunteers (individuals and groups) is well underway. But volunteers can be put to better use than picking up packaging garbage from businesses, many of which are owned outside our tourism-dependent community. Some employ uber-sophisticated green marketing, while their packaging waste ultimately goes to top up our limited community landfill. We can all benefit by breaking this wasteful cycle of littering and cleanup.
Let's encourage the take-out vendors to: provide recycling opportunities at-source, and reduce the amount of packaging waste.
Anna Gamble
Gibsons
