Proposed changes to the way Toronto collects recycling and hazardous materials will harm the environment and cost more, a local environmental group said Friday. On Thursday the budget committee suggested the city could save $600,000 by ending excess recycling

KUCHING: Dissatisfaction among residents of MJC New Township is believed to be the main motive behind the burning of at least 14 metal and plastic dustbins provided for the area. Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) chairman Lo Khere Chiang, who checked on the vandalised

Inside the worship room, carpeting bought off Craigslist covers the floor. Near the front door, simple wire shelving holds dozens of pairs of shoes. Out on the street, dank pieces of paper hung inside a sign box announce a mosque at the corner

I can imagine the love and passion for the environment it must take for one to dig in through mounds and mounds of waste infested with all kinds of dirt imaginable just trying to separate plastics, glass and paper from the rest of the litter, for recycling

GUELPH — The city may have to take another look at its decision to switch to roadside garbage plastic containers next fall. An appeal decision by the province’s Environmental Review Tribunal regarding a related composting situation in Ottawa appears to have

LIKE others in my neighbourhood, I am trialling food waste collection. It was all very exciting at first when the new, round, grey plastic bins, kitchen box with its biodegradable liners (to contain cooked food, meat, bones etc) joined the old, square, grey plastic containers, kitchen box (for peelings, tea bags and egg shells) on my worktop

LAYTON — A half-ton of unused over-the-counter and prescription medicines are expected to be collected Saturday in Davis County through the biannual “clean out your medicine cabinet” campaign. A similar effort that day will take place in Weber County. Last year’s effort there resulted in 475

While Roanoke County, Salem and Vinton residents may not spot the prize patrol in their neighborhoods, a recycling lottery will reach them too. If the residents take their used bottles, cans, paper and plastic to recycling drop sites on eight dates, they may enter a Coca-Cola Bottling Co

Imagine that everything you receive for Christmas fits in one shoebox. That’s what the 28 members of The Ellison School’s Interact Club were asked as they set to work in teams to build 28 “Boxes of Love,” shoe-box-sized plastic bins filled to the brim with items requested

THE first Township Forum meeting at the Elms Community Centre was addressed by Neil Long, assistant director of Bury waste, on recycling. He explained that the £25 charge for replacement plastic bins applied to all bins