BY ANTHONY SCHNECK Mind Body Green It’s difficult enough for one person to live a zero-waste lifestyle; can you imagine if an entire grocery store tried it? Well, one market in Berlin, Germany is actually making it happen. At Original Unverpackt, you won’t find produce bags, paper bags, ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County council’s direction to its senior staff to keep the 2015 levy increase to one per cent over last year, has resulted in $1.389 million worth of adjustments to the draft. The impact will lower the previously projected two per cent average property t...
Just because employees are highly paid doesn’t mean we can depend on them By Paul Schliesmann, Kingston Whig-Standard In the eastern Ontario village of Westport, all eyes these days are on the weather and the calendar. The colder and longer the winter the better. Temperatures of –7 C mean muni...
Ontario’s 1st Zero Waste Conference was held at Orillia’s Lakehead University last summer. One of the outcomes from the Conference was a list of action items that attendees requested be forwarded to the province to encourage policy changes that will help reduce waste in Ontario. Gord Joy...
By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times Ramara Township has been reprimanded by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) for violating the Environmental Protection Act. A notice of violation was delivered to the township Monday afternoon by the MOE, stating the township had exceeded the para...
Long-delayed project still within $28-million budget, says official By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – The long-awaited sewage treatment plant in Penetanguishene is expected to be fully completed in May or June, according to town staff. Discussion about the plant, the plans for which h...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner Simcoe County is looking at its future recycling and waste-disposal options, and it’s looking for input from county residents. The county’s Solid Waste Management Strategy has recommended the potential development of two infrastructure projects — an o...
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