E-waste and Recycling with Free Geek
Is this show currently playing? December 7, 2008 Canadians generate an average of 4.5 kilograms of e-waste - per person - per year!!E-waste and Recycling with Free Geek Here's a bit of a change of...
View ArticleReuse fair at North Glenora Community
May 9, 2009 - 12:00pm A Reuse Fair is a one-day community event where unwanted but reusable household items are collected and passed on to charities, non-profits, artisans and schools that need them. A...
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Clothing swap party
August 15, 2009 - 12:00pm Swap your clothes for an eco-friendly way to upgrade your fall wardrobe Just show up with your unwanted (but clean & good quality) clothes, and leave with a newly revamped...
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Barking Dog Xmas Art Sale
November 28, 2009 - 11:00am We invite you to join us at the second annual Barking Dog Art Sale! We invite you to join us at the 2nd annual Barking Dog Art Sale! Some of the objets on offer will...
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Imagining Africa: El Anatsui brings his metal tapestries to ROM
Monday, January 24, 2011 The Ghanaian sculptor reworks rubbish into traditional-style hangings to unearth the future from the rubble of consumerism. An exhibition of his influential work is on at the...
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Imagining Africa: El Anatsui brings his metal tapestries to ROM
Masterful retrospective.Imagining Africa: El Anatsui brings his metal tapestries to ROM
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: Why natural gas companies fear Josh Fox, Gasland and the Oscars
The natural gas industry is afraid that Josh Fox, director of the muckraking film Gasland, might win an Oscar on Sunday. Earlier this month, an organization called Energy in Depth, backed by the oil...
View ArticleGreenwashed: University of Windsor blames custodial staff for trashed...
Rabble rousers unite! rabble.ca needs you. Become a member today. A few weeks ago campus newspaper, The Lance, uncovered some interesting details about recycling at the University of Windsor. The...
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Ken Lyotier gives first annual Jim Green Memorial Lecture
Ken Lyotier founded United We Can, a recycling depot for binners and dumpster divers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The depot currently accepts containers from 700 binners each day. Ken Lyotier...
View ArticleIncinerating trash is a waste of resources
Many urban areas have built or are considering building waste-incineration facilities to generate energy. At first glance, it seems like a win-win. You get rid of "garbage" and acquire a new energy...
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RCO Annual General Meeting and Policy Forum
Tue, Feb 4, 2014Extended Producer Responsibility and the Waste Reduction Act Open for Discussion at Recycling Council of Ontario's AGM and Policy ForumTORONTO, ON (Jan. 23, 2014) To support Ontario's...
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Billions of kilograms of food waste? Now that should have been an election...
Monday, November 10, 2014 67 billion kilograms of food waste heads for the landfill every year. It's a big issue. Why aren't our politicians making a plan for all that food waste? Suppose they called...
View ArticleWe have to stop filling and killing the oceans with plastic
Eight million tonnes. That's how much plastic we're tossing into the oceans every year! University of Georgia environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck says it's enough to line up five grocery bags of trash...
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