Environment

During Earth week, I talked a lot about the importance of reducing household waste. During the week our household worked hard to reduce waste as well. Of course it is…

Today is the last day of the Household Waste Reduction Challenge. Thanks to everyone for participating! Now that it’s over, take some time to have a discussion with your household…

It’s already day six of the Household Waste Challenge. I’m sure people are getting ready for Easter so I’ll make today and tomorrow’s post a little shorter. Don’t forget to…

Over the last few days I’ve touched upon the topic of packaging, but today I’m diving into the topic of plastic packaging waste. Stuff is packaged for containment, protection, transportation,…

Today is day four of the Household Waste Challenge. How does your Household Waste Challenge Chart look? You can still download the chart and use it for the rest of the week (pdf)…

Today is day three of the Household Waste Challenge. If you haven’t already, there is still time to go and download the Household Waste Challenge Chart (pdf) (excel) (sample with…

About $27 billion worth of Canadian food ends up in our landfills each year. That’s equivalent to 40% of all the food we produce in Canada. Food waste occurs all along…

Today is day one of the Household Waste Challenge. If you haven’t already, go and download the Household Waste Challenge Chart (pdf) (excel) (sample with instructions). If you aren’t interested…

The Household Waste Challenge begins tomorrow, Sunday April 17, 2011! Be sure to download the chart and read the sample chart for instructions on filling it in. If there are…

Each Canadian tosses about 2.7kg (5.95 lbs) of trash each day resulting in more than 31 million tonnes of garbage produced in Canada each year. Imagine about 15 million mini…