I'm a potter and I mean it. I sincerely believe that BYOM ( bring your own mug ) could be the key to a major shift in ridding America of a lot of garbage, By doing this simple act of mugging America we would simultaneously be halting the weight of a few million barrels...
opinion by Uva Oxide | 2 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 58 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Zero waste" is recycling to the max. Nothing gets wasted, only recycled and composted. Growing out of the environmental movement that has gone mainstream in the last few years is the newest and most...
created by Gordon Clark | 6 wks ago | updated 2 wks ago 99 views | 16 recommendations | 2 comments
Update 2: Add to the Insult, Macleans Magazine's Cover feature Mayor Miller in a garbage can with a banana peel with raccoons all around him. That adds to more insult to the city and brownie point to the unions. Yikes, now we know who Maclean sided with!Update:...
opinion by cmegkp | 20 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 678 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Update: Mayor Miller Spoke to CNN's host host Ali Velshi about garbage strike!Quoted from the article National Post: "CNN has done reports on Toronto’s trash situation and the San Francisco Chronicle recently added Toronto to a travel advisory list alongside...
opinion by cmegkp | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 356 views | 15 recommendations | 1 comment
North American culture in my opinion is powered by consumerism. Whether it is the jobs we do, the things we eat or the material things we want, they are all related to the consumption of money. We work to gain money to be spent on food, to afford shelter and for whatever we...
opinion by Timofly | 23 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 52 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan. Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...
created by Paschen | 24 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 722 views | 88 recommendations | 41 comments
July 30, 2009 The Transformation Has BegunMowing, or should I say, threshing and baling of the tall grass in city parks, as well as garbage and recycling pick up has begun. It will likely take a couple of weeks...
created by skintone | 32 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago 2984 views | 18 recommendations | 15 comments
As a student of Simon Fraser University active in both Burnaby and Surrey campus, an inherent need for using the Translink system is required to get to each location. All these transiting experiences have brought...
opinion by der7 | 37 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 258 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
"The very basis for life on earth is declining at an alarming rate": Kofi Annan, March 2005, sounding his usual spiritual self!
Hunter Lovins (of Natural Capitalism Solutions) puts it better: "Every...
Have you ever wondered what happens to all the waste collected while sailing through those pristine blue waters of a Caribbean cruise? "These are floating cities that go back and forth through our waters,...
This is an ocean planet. On Vancouver Island we have been blessed with the bounty from the ocean. Oysters lay on the clean beaches. Children play on the sandy beaches in the summer. Dog...
China has been one of the largest importers of waste material. But as the world economy has slowed, there has been a severe drop in demand. Biz Journal quoted Brian Scaffer of Blue Mountain Recycling, located in...
created by weirdchina | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 966 views | 9 recommendations | 11 comments
Jersey City, New Jersey - Police are searching garbage dumps for the body of a baby boy delivered at Christ Hospital and apparently thrown out with the trash, authorities said today."Bashire Moore was born days...
Recycling prices are crashing and that's putting municipal recycling at risk."The city of Anchorage is blaming the market for a decision to stop accepting glass for recycling. Donna Mears of the Solid Waste...