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Since 2016, Compost Winnipeg has been picking up food waste from homes and businesses in the city. As of November 2022, they’ve composted 4 million kilograms of organics — waste that would otherwise go to the landfill, where it would contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Winnipeg is the largest city …
Read More »City of Kingston, Ont. hopes residents waste less this holiday season – Kingston
As we hit the peak of the holiday season, the City of Kingston, Ont., hopes its residents will waste less this year. The City of Kingston encourages residents to avoid creating unnecessary garbage when exchanging gifts this holiday season. “Each non-recyclable item we send to landfill contributes to greenhouse gas …
Read More »Why this Thunder Bay folk singer brought back his 1979 protest song to speak out against nuclear waste
What’s old is new again in the debate around whether to store nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario. In 1979, when Atomic Energy of Canada was consulting on its plan to bury nuclear waste near Atikokan, Thunder Bay folk singer Rodney Brown’s gave a five-minute deputation expressing his opposition to the …
Read More »B.C. community expands home composting pilot project to divert more food waste from landfills
The City of Nelson, B.C., is expanding its food waste management pilot program, distributing countertop waste recyclers to more households in an attempt to reduce landfill waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, the city council announced its plan to give out 1,600 FoodCyclers, which the Ottawa-based manufacturer, Food Cycle Science, …
Read More »Canada’s nuclear waste agency says it was scammed out of $300K meant for First Nation in Ontario
The agency in charge of Canada’s nuclear waste says an alleged cyber criminal posing as an Indigenous chief managed to cheat the organization into paying the person almost $300,000, money meant for community development at a First Nation in Ontario. The funds were the second of two payments totalling $600,000 from the Nuclear Waste …
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