Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics with the rest dumped in landfill and incinerators or tossed away as litter. Could Sweden, with less than 1% of household garbage sent to landfill, have the answer? From BBC World Service With countries shutting their doors to foreign recyclable waste a...
Jonathon Shore Update: a Celebration of Life for Jonathon Shore will be held at 1 – 2:30 pm on Saturday, February 8 2020 at New Life Church, 28 Tracey Lane (off Hurontario St.), Collingwood. By Kate Harries AWARE News Network January 18 2020 It is with great sadness that we report the death of...
Toronto Star editorial Ontario is weakening independent oversight of recycling at the very time the province needs it more than ever. It’s the latest evidence of the Ford government’s inability to see even a couple steps ahead as it goes about its thoughtless cost-cutting and regulatory changes seemi...
Councillor Ralph Cipolla When Ralph Cipolla’s beloved golden doodle swallowed a piece of plastic while walking an area trail, the Orillia councillor had a choice to make. “Put him down or a very expensive operation,” Cipolla told his colleagues this week. “We chose to do the operation.” Cipolla reco...
Rivers are a major conduit of plastic pollution into the world’s oceans Thomson Reuters December 17, 2019 The Amsterdam bubble barrier used to collect plastic is basically a tube placed on the bottom of a river or canal, with holes where air is pressed through to create a ‘bubble curtain....
AWARE News Network Last week, Simcoe County received this staff report on next steps in its plan to locate its organics and waste handling facility in the Freele Tract on Horsehoe Valley Road. CCW 2019-399 Friends of Simcoe Forests which, along with Nicholyn Farms and Edward Krajid, is appealing the ...
By: Jessica Owen Barrie Advance November 7 2019 Progress on the County of Simcoe’s Environmental Resource Recovery Centre project (ERRC) is churning slowly, especially now that a second appeal has been added to the project stack. A Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) case management conference bet...
Bradford DM James Leduc says county contract is too large for one supplier Scroll down for update from New Tecumseth Free Press Online Waste Connections ‘made a fortune on this contract and they don’t give a rat’s behind on what they’re doing here,’ says Leduc By: Jessica Owen Barrie Toda...
Steve Ogden in 2009 as the Site 41 protest camp was being set up. Vicki Monague is in the background. -Kate Harries photo ‘This collection offers comprehensive documentation of an important episode in Canadian environmental activism’ By Kate Harries AWARE News Network It’s official –...
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