AWARE News Network Simcoe County has come up with a short list of seven possible sites for a composting and waste transfer facility. A staff report explaining the list is on the County Council agenda for Tuesday August 11. Presently, the County sends its organics to Hamilton. Five of the short-listed...
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, P.C., M.P. Minister of the Environment Dear Minister Aglukkaq, Re: Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development – 8th Report (Feb 2015) “The Management of Municipal Solid Waste and Industrial Materials” Thank you for your reply to concerns about the abo...
Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – Penetanguishene Public Library officials are inviting local high school students to earn volunteer hours by helping create mats out of milk bags. The library has been collecting and repurposing empty milk bags for several years. The “milk bag mats” are sent to Kenya a...
Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop and Simcoe North MP Bruce Stanton held their Annual Constituency Family Picnic/BBQ on Saturday, July 11, 2015. The event was held at the Coldwater Curling club where over four hundred people enjoyed a BBQ prepared by Shaw’s Catering. In addition to greeting constituen...
By Sara Carson Innisfil Journal The County of Simcoe is closer to determining where it will construct two new waste facilities. A request for expression of interest process (REOI ) has just wrapped up to build a list of potential sites. Private and county-owned sites were under consideration. “A high...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Requests for Expressions of Interest (REOI) for private landowners to have their properties considered as a possible site for Simcoe County’s proposed organics sorting facility, closed on Friday.The next step involves the County’s Procurement Department in ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County is now accepting Requests for Expressions of Interest from any land owner interested in selling their land to the upper tier for a proposed organics processing facility. The deadline to apply for consideration is May 22nd. Any site(s) shortlisted will be ...
Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine AMO paper addresses “growing discord” between municipalities and producers on fair blue box compensation; and addresses municipal hazardous and special waste program that “has been through several iterations” Ontario’s long-awaited Bill 91, the Waste Reduct...
Correspondence with the Pan Am Games March 31, 2015 Toronto 2015 Pam Am Games Corus Quay, 25 Dockside Drive, 7th Drive, Toronto, ON M5A 0B5 Attention: Ms. Kendra Graham, Associate External Partnerships (Games Information Sessions) Dear Kendra, Re: Raise the bar – Aim for Zero Waste at Pan Am ...
The following letter has been sent to MP Harold Albrecht – Chair of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainability Development: Dear Mr. Albrecht Re: Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development – 8th Report (Feb 2015) “The Management of Municipal Solid Waste ...
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