According to the City of Calgary, people living in the city generate about 25 per cent more waste 'during the Christmas season, but recycling doubles and a lot of what's in the blue bins shouldn't be there.'
According to the City of Calgary, people living in the city generate about 25 per cent more waste "during the Christmas season, but recycling doubles and a lot of what's in the blue bins shouldn't be there."
"If it doesn't tear like that—if it's more crinkly, plasticky feeling—it's more likely a cellophane product, and that's just garbage, unfortunately, because it's not a recyclable type of plastic." "The bubble wrap, the shipping pillows—they are all recyclable. So, if you do the stretch test on those by pushing your thumb into it, does your thumb stretch through the material?" Howland said.
"When a fire happens in a City of Calgary collection truck, they actually have to find an open parking lot and just unload immediately, and then the fire department will come and put everything out. And you can imagine how scary that is for the driver of that truck when he realizes that there's a fire in there."
Chrystia Freeland, Canada's finance minister, said in an explosive letter published Monday morning that she will quit cabinet. Here's what happened on Monday, Dec. 16. A B.C. man convicted of the "intentional and ruthless killing of a bystander" while acting as an enforcer in the drug trade has been sentenced for a second time in the slaying.The Saskatoon Police Service is reaffirming its commitment to approach drug use as a public health issue in a report to the police board this week — but not without reservation.
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