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We Built This City on Garbage: The Rapid Re(f)use Solution (webecoist.com)In their concept, Terreform acknowledges that different types of materials would be useful for different applications: organic materials could be used for temporary scaffolding, plastics for windows and skylights, and metals for the “bones” of buildings.
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Every year, thousands of tons of "recycled" waste from the U.S., deceptively labeled as "fertilizer," are plowed into farms, beaches and deserts in Bangladesh, Haiti, Somalia, Brazil and dozens of other countries."
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2009 Request for Decision Application for rezoning in order to permit a Bioreactor (www.greatersudbury.ca)Mr. Day stated this is not a P-3 program, but a private project. He advised there are two companies in Southern Ontario who have been successful with producing affordable organic compost, and they are working with these companies.
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4.Vancouver sewage set to start powering Olympics (www.montrealgazette.com)
sewage as fuel, will “keep 2,800 athletes and officials warm during the Olympics,”
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- Clothes Discarded by H and M Are First Destroyed (www.nytimes.com)Gloves with the fingers cut off,” Ms. Magnus said, reciting the inventory of ruined items. “Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.” The jackets were tagged $59, $79 and $129.
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Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Waste Diversion Survey (www.surveymonkey.com)Interested members of the business community are invited to comlete. Your input is essential to helping the City develop programs that will work for your business.
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Decomposition rates of some common items (www.examiner.com)Decomposition rates (rate at which it will totally break down into the earth) of items in landfills will vary depending on the amount of sunlight, moisture and air exposure it receives. Some of these time ranges are very rough estimates.
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Friends of Temagami Documents Campers Garbage (www.friendsoftemagami.org)In early May this year, I went into Yorston Lake planning to travel up the Yorston River to Talking Falls and then go into Mudchannel Lakeand crossover into the Pinetorch Conservation Reserve
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Social Guerilla Bagging (www.morsbags.com)British initiative to stop the use of plastic bags
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The Waste Manifesto (interactions.acm.org)The aim of a sustainable waste economy is to reuse as much waste as possible, even to the point of reducing waste surplus to zero.To accomplish this, we would need to create a flow - through society in which all waste - natural and synthetic - is reused.
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Tracking trash with MIT (web.mit.edu)A team of MIT researchers today announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away. Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that will track different types of waste on their journey through the disposal systems of New York and Seattle.
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12.Sudbury Waste (imaginesudbury.com)
Imagine a proper waste diversion program. Well in Sudbury, it appears that imagination is lacking when it comes to solid waste at the landfill. E-waste or computer waste is somehow getting into the landfill without a proper e-waste policy being implemented.
Today, at 9.10am I witnessed a Sudbury garbage truck (not a contractor) putting a computer monitor (CRT style) into the back of the truck then pulling the crusher lever. I was shocked, especially since I was under the impression that we were paying a provincial fee to help municipalities deal with e-waste. So you can imagine my horror after I called the city at 3-1-1 to enquire to what the policy was in regards to waste and e-waste.
The lady at the other end at 3-1-1 was very helpful, she took down the details. I was called back within 5 mins from the waste depot from a young sounding lad called B******. He informed me that they are not in the business to collect monitors from the curb, and that they can't tell if one is buried in a garbage bag. I informed him that it was bare waste on the foot path- it was not obfuscated and was clearly a monitor being put into the back of the truck and being crushed right there on the street.
So why are we paying these provincial fees when this goes on? Imagine what it would be like if everything went the way we believed it should.
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Solar powered landfill in Texas (www.greenbiz.com)Republic Services Inc. has converted a landfill cover into a flexible solar power generating system in what could be the first of several projects in the South Texas region.
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Private solution to Estaire garbage dilemma (www.northernlife.ca)About 160 residents packed the Wanup community hall Thursday night to hear two private proposals to deal with the recent closure of their local garbage transfer station by Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) officials.
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Guelph City Councillors blog for Brownfield Solutions (ward2guelph.wordpress.com)As 2 Guelph City Councilors collaborate on a blog and look for a brownfield solution to the Citys garbage dump they suggest Sudbury has a successful model. photo by: gwsa
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No Impact Man (noimpactproject.org)The No Impact Project is an international, environmental, nonprofit project, founded in the spring of 2009. It was inspired by the No Impact Man book, film, and blog.
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Photos Packaging Design at Its Worst : TreeHugger (www.treehugger.com)Poor packaging design and ridiculous examples of over-packaging come in all shapes and sizes
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Barrie to capture landfill's methane (www.thebarrieexaminer.com)Sandy Hollow landfill has operated since the early 1960s, constructed in a former sand pit of almost 46 acres -- with a capacity of almost 138 million cubic feet for trash. photo by: polandeze
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