The City of Grande Prairie may soon join a group of municipalities supporting positive environmental change in the province of Alberta.
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Community benefits from recycling: Smith
Recycle Plus business services director Brenda Smith has a simple message for the Grande Prairie public: If you’re going to buy bottled water, recycle the containers.
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Edmonton is the City of Recycling Champions
When it comes to taking out the trash, Edmonton really is the City of Champions.
As the city celebrates 25 years of curbside recycling, it continues to push initiatives that are leaving other Canadian cities in the dust.
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City at crossroads for recycling, composting
In the age of green initiatives, concepts such as recycling and composting are forerunners when it comes to lessening our environmental impact.
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Multi-family buildings required to provide recycling
During their regular meeting May 13, Sylvan Lake councillors:
• passed first reading of a bylaw which will require owners of multi-family dwellings with 12 or more units to provide suitable on-site recycling services for their tenants.
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Apartment, condo dwellers urged to voice thoughts on recycling service
The city is hosting another open house for apartment and condo residents to voice opinions about recycling services.
The city is proposing three models for use in multi-family complexes.
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Okotoks: Program continues to grow after four years
Okotoks residents could see changes to the Town’s curbside recycling after a review of the program is completed later this year.
The Town is planning to review its ‘curb-it’ recycling program to see whether any changes are needed as the number of people using the service continues to grow.
Okotoks operations manager Dave Robertson said it’s a good time to review the program because it is entering its fourth year and the company currently contracted to collect recyclables will stop doing so at the end of June.
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Take a bow, Calgary: Recycling leaps by 70% after rollout of blue cart program
CALGARY — The city’s recycling program is gaining ground and is on target for reducing total waste going to three landfills.
Officials say Calgary’s recycling program has seen residents diverting more than 200 million kilograms of materials in the three years since the blue carts were introduced.
The increase in recycling by more than 70 per cent is cause for celebration.
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Regional waste management agreement signed
Pen was put to paper last week for the signing of an agreement between the Town of Peace River, Northern Sunrise County and the Village of Nampa formalizing the three-way partnership that manages waste in the region.
The Peace Regional Waste Management Company (PRWMC) was created between the Town, Village and County in 2010 and is responsible for managing the Peace Regional Eco Centre, the East Peace Regional Landfill, 14 recycling drop-off depots (six that are transfer stations) and municipal solid waste transfer stations.
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Recycling business running afoul of county
A recycling business has run afoul of Lacombe County.
The county’s municipal planning commission rejected an application last week by SLC Canada for Waste Processing Inc. to set up a plant because the building doesn’t meet industrial park standards.
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