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"We are telling people to start collecting their organic wastes for collection the week of April 2," Peel Region director of waste Andrew Pollock said as the Region launched its green bin organic composting program, a key plank of its waste reduction strategy. The Region has delivered green bins on …

Here is an interesting editorial from South Africa‘‘s Cape Times. THE short answer is: not much. As my colleague Melanie Gosling revealed last November, despite the fact that more than R100 million has been raised from the 3c levy on every "thick" plastic bag we‘‘ve bought from supermarkets since 2003, …

Neither the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the municipalities have a programme in place for recycling plastic waste, and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far. Stabroeknews.com reports that plastic bottles (PET), Styrofoam food boxes and plastic …

San Francisco‘‘s city council has voted to become the first US city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling. Reuters reports that under the legislation approved by the city‘‘s Board of Supervisors, large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from …

A good example from the Star Tribune of the problems when good motives clash with poor systems design. Every day at lunchtime in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, students diligently separate food waste from other garbage. Leftover pizza goes in one bin, plastic forks and foam plates in another, empty …

San Francisco‘‘s Board of Supervisors were due to consider passing an ordinance that would require large supermarkets and pharmacies in the city to replace non-biodegradable plastic bags with reusable or recyclable bags, a move that would make San Francisco the first city in the US to introduce such a ban. …

“We are telling people to start collecting their organic wastes for collection the week of April 2,” Peel Region director of waste Andrew Pollock said as the Region launched its green bin organic composting program, a key plank of its waste reduction strategy. The Region has delivered green bins on …

Here is an interesting editorial from South Africa‘‘s Cape Times. THE short answer is: not much. As my colleague Melanie Gosling revealed last November, despite the fact that more than R100 million has been raised from the 3c levy on every “thick” plastic bag we‘‘ve bought from supermarkets since 2003, …

Neither the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nor the municipalities have a programme in place for recycling plastic waste, and the impediment to finding workable solutions may lie in the lack of financial viability for everything proposed so far. Stabroeknews.com reports that plastic bottles (PET), Styrofoam food boxes and plastic …