The good news: The amount of curb side garbage being diverted from Ottawa landfills was more than 50 per cent for the first time in 2013. Green bin collection increased 23.6 per cent to 83,000 tonnes in 2013. You read that right. Right on! The bad news: Not all of the city’s green bin waste is being processed at Orgaworld, the chair of the environment committee announced Tuesday. Only 69,000 tonnes … Read more »
Came across this great piece late last year, concerning the diversion of the city of Ottawa’s waste from the municipal landfill. According to the piece by the Ottawa Sun’s Susan Sherring, despite the entry of the infamous — and expensive green bin — Ottawa diverts one of the lowest percentages of residential trash from the city’s landfills. The Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative compares a number of different service areas, including garbage, … Read more »
Junk on earth is a problem. You know where it’s an even bigger problem? Space. Yes – that space. The space outside of our atmosphere. The huge and ever-growing cloud of debris around Earth poses a real threat to satellites and our way of life, researchers stressed this year at the 6th European Conference on Space Debris in Darmstadt, Germany. “There is a wide and strong expert consensus on the pressing need to act … Read more »
By now, Ottawa’s residents are intimately acquainted with the city’s composting program. To say that it had a rocky rollout or that it continues to be a controversial program is an understatement. The program was instituted back in 2010 when the reality set in that the city was going to have to start looking for another landfill site. Council weighed the cost of finding and operating said landfill with the … Read more »
Looking to ditch unwanted electronics? Have computers, laptops, or DVD players that you’re not using anymore? Don’t throw them away! Bring them to the Emily Carr Middle School parking lot for recycling. The money generated from recycling will go back to the Scouts program! When: Monday Nov 25 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Where: Emily Carr Middle School – 2681 Innes Road – Ottawa, Ontario – K1B 4Z7 Many people don’t realize that the … Read more »
You may or may not have heard about the City of Ottawa’s controversial agreement with Plasco Energy Group. Plasco is owned by Rod Bryden – former owner of The Ottawa Senators, and a few years back they struck a deal with the city to build a facility on vacant unused land. The Ottawa Sun has been reporting on this extensively – mostly because a city imposed deadline lapsed. Plasma gasification … Read more »
Caught this sad article on CP24 about 2 tonnes of junk that was removed from Toronto’s Humber river. The good folks at 1-800-Rid-Of-It gathered up a group of volunteers to literally remove 2 tonnes of junk from the water. To put this into perspective, the Humber River, was declared a heritage river in 1999. It runs 100 kilometres from the Niagara Escarpment to Lake Ontario. It’s not exactly a simple to … Read more »
Hey Folks, We’re hosting another E-Waste Round Up! Where and When: Saturday October 12th, 2013 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Walter Baker Park Maple Grove – parking lot Ottawa, Ontario The City of Ottawa has this posted on their website here. We’ve been doing these for the last few years, and each year we literally save a few tonnes of household electronics from going into a landfill. Many people don’t … Read more »
We’ll be hosting another free e-waste round up event! Where: Jim Durrell Arena 1265 Walkley Rd, Ottawa, ON K1V 6P9 When: Sat May 4th, 2013 10-3pm rain or shine! Items being accepted: Televisions Desktop computers and terminals Monitors Laptop computers Desktop printers Fax machines Disk drives CD-ROM drives Keyboards and mice Amplifiers, stereos, speakers, receivers Cameras, digital cameras Copiers, fax machines, scanners Pagers, PDAs Radios Telephones, cellphones, answering machines VCR and … Read more »
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