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New Orleans — Education and access works. Just ask the city of Vancouver, Wash., which has seen plastic film recycling significantly rise and contamination problems at a local recycling facility drastically decline. Results of a campaign in Vancouver dubbed “Recycle Wrap/Beyond Bags” was unveiled at the Plastics Recycling 2016 conference in New Orleans. Rich McConaghy was on the front lines...
Read MoreTHE clamour is growing that closing recycling centres will lead to a plague of fly-tipping in our countryside. Cash-strapped Surrey County Council is scrutinising the future of its recycling centres, which include those at Horley Road in Earlswood, Chaldon Road in Caterham and Bond Road in Warlingham. Cutting opening hours or even closing some of them permanently are options on...
Read MoreFinance Minister Bill Morneau made Surrey his last stop in his pre-budget consultations with Canadians today. Morneau spoke at the Surrey Board of Trade on Saturday morning, at the end of a week traveling across the country to discuss the upcoming federal budget. “The Canadian economy is going through a difficult period, but in the face of this real challenge,...
Read MoreThree eastern Coachella Valley chambers of commerce could soon be one. La Quinta, Indio and Coachella, along with the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, are close to forming the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce. Supporters tout cost and other benefits for the nonprofit business organizations and their members as the impetus for the merger. “We have been actively promoting...
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: The Environment Agency has said it is “open to reviewing” its ban on the use of street-swept leaves in PAS 100 compost if there is “clear evidence that new technologies and approaches” can provide material of consistently high quality. This follows tests carried out by the Surrey Waste Partnership (SWP) last year which found a ‘low risk’ to human...
Read MoreOpponents of a contaminated soil disposal facility near Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island have turned up the volume on their campaign, co-ordinating helicopter flights for media and politicians and urging the province to pull the permit for the site. The helicopter flights, designed to provide a bird’s-eye view of the terrain and waterways around the contentious project, are part of...
Read MoreFirst they went for the mattresses and now the Cowichan Valley Regional District has a proposal to take an estimated 1,800 couches and easy chairs out of its garbage each year. The Vancouver Island region, which includes the municipalities of North Cowichan, Lake Cowichan, Duncan and Ladysmith, is looking for a private contractor to recycle couches, after a similar program...
Read MoreNEW charges for disposing of some household waste could lead to an increase in fly-tipping according to a concerned countryside expert. Planned charges, announced by Surrey County Council on November 24, mean the disposal of tyres, large gas bottles and larger loads of non-household waste such as rubble and plasterboard will now incur a charge at public recycling centres. On...
Read MoreThe Goochland County Chamber of Commerce has announced a new partnership with Virginia Energy Sense (VES) in an effort to help reduce electricity consumption in Goochland and across Virginia. An energy education program, VES is managed by the Virginia State Corporation Commission and focused on reducing statewide electricity consumption by 10 percent by 2020. Virginia Energy Sense’s mission is two-fold:...
Read MoreThe Coupeville Chamber of Commerce scored the lion’s share of the county’s basic 2 percent hotel-motel tax revenues for 2016, garnering $26,450 for use at its visitors’ center, according to a document approved Tuesday by the Board of Island County Commissioners. The 2 percent basic county hotel-motel tax revenues are earmarked for use promoting tourism. The Coupeville chamber’s 2016 take...
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