An Airdrie rural resident is concerned with the amount of garbage being dumped near his acreage home.
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An Airdrie rural resident is concerned with the amount of garbage being dumped near his acreage home.
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New York’s decision last November to ban food waste from dumping grounds may turn out to be one of the city’s smartest decisions ever. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont are already doing the same, as are Seattle, San Francisco and Portland. The United States could finally be waking up to the benefit of the “circular economy,” or taking what you throw away and finding as much value in it as possible.
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EDMONTON – A $22 million project slated for Drayton Valley’s municipal landfill site could make burying garbage obsolete and provide energy from the reformed solid waste.
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Leaves may be falling as autumn sets in, but an accumulation of summer litter is still quite visible on Grande Prairie grounds.
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As the city’s top money man for at least eight of the past dozen years, Ald. Gord Lowe says he has few tax-and-spend regrets.
Since 2003, when Lowe served as chairman of the city’s finance committee or on its priorities and finance panel, the city’s portion of the tax burden has gone from a median of $835 per household to $1,557.
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FORT MCMURRAY — The two big steel shipping containers at the city landfill, one green and one blue, are deceptively unassuming, yet they reflect a promising future.
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Red Deer residents got their first glimpse on Saturday of a new waste collection system now being contemplated.
An update of the city’s waste management master plan, now underway, includes converting to a system of three bins, colour coded for organics, recyclables and garbage.
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A Red Deer company wants to turn local garbage into fuel — and it insists it’s got the technology to do so.
Blue Horizon Bio-Diesel Inc. conducted a demonstration in a Blindman Industrial Park shop on Wednesday, feeding a mix of municipal waste, sawdust, used motor oil and a special “catalyst” into a scaled-down plant, which churned out a small quantity of diesel fuel a short time later.
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Okotoks residents asking for larger garbage bins could soon have their wishes granted, but granting their wish will come at a cost.
The Town’s proposed 2013 draft budget includes a plan to give people the option of getting a larger bin for curbside garbage collection.
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About 20 residents attended a council meeting to discuss concerns about the Channelside neighbourhood, located in Airdrie’s northwest, Nov. 5.
The group stood in solidarity behind resident and local Realtor Matt Carre, who gave a presentation complete with pictures showing garbage, old furniture, broken-down vehicles, improperly parked RVs, unkempt yards and vacant lots scattered throughout the neighbourhood.
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