Archive of posts tagged "recycling"

Metro Vancouver Recycles and the Zero Waste Challenge

April 9th, 2009 @ 10:25am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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The other day we were taking our recyclables down to the bins and noticed the garbage dumpster was overflowing (at least 3 feet above the rim). When we got closer I noticed that one of the top layers of waste was milk and orange juice cartons – about a dozen of them. With six recycle [...]

Vancouver's Fresh Start Recycling

July 7th, 2008 @ 10:34am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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In this age of reducing, re-using and recycling it still isn’t easy to find someone to cart off your old couch, computer or dry wall after a home reno. Sure, there are companies out there that will haul away anything you can toss at them out the window but how do you know your semi-mint [...]