If you can’t use it, freecycle it!
If you can’t freecycle it, recycle it!
Here’s a really useful tool from Earth 911 which will help you find recycling depots near you!
Earth911.com – Find Recycling Centers and Learn How To Recycle.
Get involved! Time to start planning your ICAW events for 2011. The International Compost Awareness Week Committee of the USCC congratulates Heather Lawrence on winning this year’s poster contest.
To see what others are saying and for more information on ICAW and how to get involved, click here
A family in Kanata went Plastic Free for 3 whole months. If you think about how much plastic you use in one day, one week… one year (!!) that’s a lot of wasted plastic. Even if you recycle there is a lot of packaging involved with your day to day life.
Read the story here! Would YOU be able to do this? Why not give it a try?
photo courtesy of The Ottawa Citizen
Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine – Guelph compost plant to close.
… “a disappointing end for the city’s attempts to establish itself as a leader in waste diversion by being the first in Ontario to build a so-called “wet/dry” two-stream system. Guelph eventually moved to a three-stream system, and rebuilt its MRF. The plant needs scheduled structural improvements, but newer, more advanced composting technologies are available.”
