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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR September 11, 20205:00 AM ET LAURA SULLIVAN Twitter Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern...
Toronto woman creates globe out of plastic trash to draw attention to beach waste
Garbage collection a way to keep Woodbine Beach free of plastic garbage, Dora Attard says Muriel Draaisma · CBC News · Posted: Sep 06, 2020 5:27 PM ET | Last Updated: September 6 Dora Attard stands beside her new installation made out of more than 500 water bottles....
PLASTIC IS A DISASTER – ENDING THE USE OF HARMFUL AND UNNECESSARY SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
Activists raise alarm as Ontario passes environmental assessment redesign during pandemic
The H.N. Crossley Nature Reserve is seen in Ontario. A new omnibus bill passed Tuesday in the Ontario legislature threatens the protections put in place by the Environmental Assessment Act, environmental groups say. - Ontario Nature NEWS AUG 14, 2020 BY LEAH...
Global mine tailings standard doesn’t pass muster with environmental groups
(MiningWatch Canada supplied photo) Critics contend industry standard will not end mine waste dams collapses Aug 14, 2020 10:00 AM By: Northern Ontario Business Staff A new mine waste standard for preventing future tailings dam collapses is too vague, leaves too much...
Researcher wants answers about toxins in northern Ontario fish
CBC News · Posted: Aug 06, 2020 5:02 AM ET | Last Updated: August 6 Gretchen Lescord is studying the levels of chromium and arsenic in fish in northern Ontario. (Gretchen Lescord) An environmental scientist in Sudbury is trying to figure out why contaminants are...
Litter Warrior Challenge *Update* August 2, 2020
#FPRWLitterWarriorChallenge The Friends of the Porcupine River Watershed's 'Litter Warrior Challenge' is now over and we would like to sincerely thank everyone who helped us clean up the community during the last 2 months...even during physical distancing guidelines!...
Ontario government investigating month-long Stoney Creek acid leak into Lake Ontario
Food-grade acid from Bartek Ingredients in Stoney Creek has been leaking into Lake Ontario for at least a month. The provincial government is investigating and the city of Hamilton says the acid may have travelled at least eight kilometer's east toward a conservation...
The Good Sewer: Why Ottawa’s $232-million sewage storage tunnel is both an engineering marvel and an act of contrition
Andrew Duffy Publishing date: Jul 12, 2020 • Last Updated 1 day ago • 12 minute read For the past three years, some nine storeys beneath downtown Ottawa, work crews have been tunnelling a solution to one of this city’s oldest problems: sewage. The combined sewage...
Garbage-strewn streets, derelict buildings ‘not acceptable’
Schumacher councillor expresses frustration with state of his ward Thomas Perry More from Thomas Perry Published on: July 7, 2020 | Last Updated: July 7, 2020 5:25 PM EDT There was plenty of trash talking going on at the end of Tuesday’s city council meeting, with...
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