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British Columbia

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
City of Abbotsford	We're just in the beginning stages of planning for October 22nd, but we're thinking of holding a mixed event at the recycling depot's compost demonstration garden, likely to include: - "used plant exchange," i.e., "bring a plant, take a plant"; - giving away "used" bulbs from the City grounds renovations; - inviting a local gardening "celebrity" to talk about fall mulching, the use of compost and environmentally friendly gardening/planting choices; - having BCUOMA participate with a used oil recyling booth; - holding a pumpkin decorating event and promoting/selling composters to deal with them after Halloween; - selling cloth shopping bags which feature local kid's art and a "BYOB" (bring your own bag) slogan. - We may also involve staff from a local wildlife shelter to add attraction and meaning to why we need to do more to preserve the environment. Unfortunately, our municipality doesn't make declarations, so we'll have to advertise it as an event, rather than a commitment by Council. We do residential waste audits on an annual basis and will be publicizing this year's results at this event for background info.
Alex Aitken School - Duncan	Our school recycles all paper products as well as juice boxes, foil pouches, aluminum cans and plastics. We also compost all compostable materials.
Bayview Community School - Vancouver	- launching a litterless lunch program - set up a compost - encourage students to use reusable containers - we are also creating a re-art centre with the focus of using diverted waste materials for art projects
BC Hydro - Vancouver	Lunch and Learn presentations throughout the week with the Recycling Council of BC, BC Hydro Power Smart Youth Team, Environmental Alliance, and kick off of our Pilot Employee Waste Reduction Initiative with the commencement of our employee-only mini recycling centres for cellphones, pagers, pda, diskettes, cds, dvds, batteries, inkjet cartridges, and eye glasses by our VP of Sustainability, Bruce Sampson. The program will be made available to all district offices throughout the province. We will also be kicking off a pilot paper towel recycling program on four floors of our offices tower in downtown Vancouver for one month. If successful we will roll out to both towers (132 washrooms in total!!!). We expect the diversion rate to be phenomenal. Likely 98.9% of what is removed from washrooms are paper towels. Celebration of achieving 79% waste reduction at our Main Distribution Centre by reducing waste by 2/3 to 3/4 of what used to go into a 40 cu. yd. container (replaced now by a 6 cu. yd. container). Encourage staff participation year round not just during the Waste Reduction Week.
Boundary Central School - Midway	Paper, plastics and can recycling - students collect from classrooms weekly. Development of a community based project promoting sound environmental practices.
Carney's Waste Systems - Squamish	Participating in an E-Waste day on the 22nd with the SLRD. Education, and promotion of event in local schools. Working with local newspapers to promote WRW.
Regional District of Comox-Strathcona - Courtenay	This year for Waste Reduction Week, the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona is launching two new community recycling areas and helping local businesses challenge each other to "go green" at the office through lunch room composting programs. We're also relocating our Comox Valley Compost Education Centre to a new, larger location so that more members of the community can learn to reduce solid waste by starting household composting.
Computer Recycling Society - Kelowna	A computer recycling roundup for the entire Waste Reduction Week. Daily from 1:00pm - 2:00pm a one-hour seminar about e-waste open to the public and schools. Collect books for Smile Africa for the week.
Courtney Kellock - Vancouver	I plan to raise awareness throughout our company and consumer community. We are a car dealership and we do a small part in recycling such as we recycle our oil, boxes and most paper, but I know there is more to do. I hope to do my part in making this earth a healthier place.
Dora Hopkins - Waglisla	We are a reserve on the central coast, on Campbell Island. My question is how do we get our recycled products off the reserve? Our landfill is a total eyesore: newsprint, juice containers, old cars, appliances and more. If there's a way, at no cost, we can have a recycling program going please help me find a solution.
Education Centre - Chilliwack	- calculating your ecological footprint - reduce photocopier use - better utilization of (double sided) paper - riparian native tree planting
Fort Nelson First Nation	- Office bottle and can recycling. - Donate winter clothes. - Organized junk automobile collection. - Promoting cell phone recycling program for the Fort Nelson area with money going to the library, food bank, and family services department.
Glacier View School - Courtenay	I would like to provide our school and community with information regarding the amount of waste generated each day from a school of our size. Then we would look at ways we could decrease the wastage. We are heavily involved in anti-littering programs and the Provincial Shoreline Clean-up already.
Glenmore School - Kelowna	- Recycling of juice containers - Recycling of paper - Walk to school Wednesdays - Winter clothing drive for Salvation Army - Turn out lights when not in rooms campaign - Essay/Story writing exercises for students
Grand Forks School - Grand Forks	We have blue bins placed all over the school (hallways, classrooms...etc). Every morning a group of kids gather all the recycling from the bins.
Heritage School - Prince George	- Walk or ride bike to work. - Recycle all paper. - Lobby bottle depots to recycle yogurt containers. - Take 5-minute showers. - Don't watch T.V., avoid commercials.
Houston Recycling Committee - Houston	We are going to challenge local elementary schools to have a litterless lunch day. We will also be distributing green ribbons at local businesses throughout the community in support and recognition of Waste Redution Week. An article will be placed in the local newspaper to raise awareness of the importance of waste reduction and also to advertise our planned activities for the week. The District of Houston will be approached to officially proclaim Waste Reduction Week in Canada.
John G. Diefenbaker School - Richmond	We have an environment group that meets once a month to do an activity using recyclable materials. Once a week we collect paper for recycling and daily we recycle cans, bottles, and juice boxes.
Kanata School - Prince Rupert	We are starting a school "Green Club" that will focus on collecting paper recycling from each classroom as well as to initiate other recycling projects around the school.
Kinnaird School - Castlegar	At Kinnaird Elementary we are planning to use both sides of paper whenever possible. We are encouraging parents to provide snacks and lunches that use a minimal amount of packaging (re-usable containers).
Township of Langley	The Township of Langley encourages community members to reduce waste in their daily lives throughout the year. During Waste Reduction Week, the Township offers all community members opportunities to learn about and live waste reduction. The Township is organizing educational workshops, activities, and events to involve every community member in reducing waste. Workshops include: Demonstration Garden Tour and Workshop It's a Worm's World A-way with Waste Worm's Eat Our Garbage - Educator's workshop Instructor's Resources: Litterless Lunch Challenge Counting Litter Out Community Events: -Yorkson Creek Community Clean-up on Saturday Oct 22 from 10:00am to 1:00pm -Walnut Grove Park Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Days Saturday Oct 22 and Sunday Oct 23 from 9:00am to 3:00pm For more information please contact: Melinda Yong, Adopt-a-Street Coordinator, at 604.532.7339 or email adopt@tol.bc.ca
Macaulay School - Victoria	- No garbage lunches. - Turn off classroom lights when out of the room.
Maple Bay School - Duncan	Will know when I see the resources. We already compost lunch waste and recycle paper and drink containers, so I will be looking for ideas to further reduce waste.
Mitchell School - Richmond	- recycling of juice boxes and bottles - recycling of paper products - "lights out" campaign - promotion of "garbage free" lunches
Mount Sentinel School - South Slocan	We think this is a great program and we are only now working to coordinate a reasonable school program.
City of Nelson	Hosting a citywide Trash to Treasure Day on Saturday, October 22. One person's trash is another's treasure! Also exhibiting public zero waste displays and conveying resource recovery inspiration via local radio and newspaper.
North Okanagan Regional District - Coldstream	Household Hazardous Waste Round Up on Saturday, October 22nd. Hosted by the North Okanagan Regional District in partnership with the Village of Lumby and the City of Enderby Fire Halls. Distribution of WasteMatters newsletter to all area residents. Contains articles of solid waste and recycling interest, landfill works and upgrades and recycling program information. A yearly publication.
North Poplar Fine Arts School - Abbotsford	We will hype the week to draw extra attention to our school's ongoing recycling programme. We have a big bin on our school property to recycle paper and cardboard. Each classroom has a big blue bin for paper, etc. and we recycle juice boxes and cans. We have set a goal for this year to reduce waste in our school. Last year we focussed on energy reduction and we won a district prize for our efforts.
pRRRdy - Fort St. John	Presentation to this year's winner of pRRRdy Partner environmental awards. October 19th at McLeod School (outside of Dawson Creek) Educator award to Danyell Dutka. October 21st at Excellence in Innovation banquet in Fort St. John Individual award to Nancy Hall-Prince and Business award to Ferris Fast Cycles
Quamichan Middle School - Duncan	The project will be handed over to the Resource Room who manage the recycling progam in the school.
Raft River School - Clearwater	- Juice and plastic water bottles are recycled daily. We made $600 last school year! Students in intermediate count and collect bottles. - Business envelopes are on-going collected (unused and stamped). - We are a registered Jade school working on Emerald status. Some teachers have composts in their classroom.
Ranch Park School - Coquitlam	Ranch Park School is a member of destination conservation. At the present time we do drink box and paper recycling, conserving light energy in the school, litterless lunches, and recycling of pull tabs. Throughout the year we do a community clean-up as well as other student activities.
Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen - Penticton	Local promotion of the week through ads and newsletters. Other activities to follow.
Salt Spring School - Salt Spring Island	Garbage-Free lunches and recycling of all drink boxes continued by our leadership group for the whole school.
School District 20 - Quesnel	We currently have a juice box and paper recyclying set up.
School District 38 - Richmond	- Recycle all drink containers. - Recycle all paper products. - Encourage re-usable lunch containers. - Lights turned off when leaving a room.
School District 67 Okanagan Skaha - Penticton	I would like to distribute your information to all the schools in our district (a total of 19 schools). Please provide us with posters for each school and any other materials. Thank you.
School District 75 - Mission	Can re-cycling and regular grounds clean-up.
Sharon Howland - Prince George	Campus Composting Initiative, Residence Recycling Committee, Used Battery Collection. Planned Activities: Waste Audit, compost bucket painting competition, etc.
Signal Hill School - Pemberton	Recycle all paper products (photocopy, cardboard, newspaper); compost; recycle juice boxes, plastic water bottles.
Stacey Lalonde - Kelowna	Someone sent me a poster for the Oct.22 computer recycling at Crown Packaging. I photocopied it and am posting the copies around town and at the school I work for.
Stawamus School - Squamish	Recycling within the school.
Techno Trash - Kelowna	A waste reduction roundup will take place for the entire Waste Reduction week (October 17-23), open daily to the public and business community. Bring in all your Computer/Electronic items for FREE (No Charge) recycling (Televisions are the only items which we DO NOT accept presently). Daily from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM we offer a one hour E-Waste recycling seminar, open to schools and the public.
Transport Canada Pacific Region - Vancouver	Transport Canada of the Pacific Region is launching a paper reduction campaign. Our targets are to reduce the amount of current paper consumption and to go for 100% Post Consumer Waste paper to reduce waste generation and resources depletion.
Twain Sullivan School - Houston	Presently, the Recycling Club at Twain Sullivan recycles many materials. Each week, teams of students scour the school for plastic and glass bottles, juice boxes and pop cans. As well, paper is collected from each classroom from two bins - one for recycling (used on both sides) and one-sided paper which can be reused by students for drawing, notes, etc. and by teachers in the photocopier. Cardboard is also recycled at the Houston Bottle Depot. During Waste Reduction Week, the Recycling Club will be presenting skits to all classes to encourage waste reduction at both home and school. We will also be holding a litterless lunch competition where house teams can collect points for using reuseable containers in lunches.
Walton School - Coquitlam	Recycling Program
Wayne Dunn & Assoc. - Mill Bay	We have reduced our solid waste by 50% so far this year. During WRW we will physically examine wastebaskets to identify opportunities for further diversion to recycle or compost.
Resort Municipality of Whistler	In partnership with the SLRD, Whistler will be hosting a Residential e-waste round-up on Saturday October 22, 2005 in Day Lot 3 - Whistler Village.
Zion Lutheran School - Surrey	Collecting all disposable drink containers, recycling paper.

Thank you to the following friends in British Columbia who have registered for 2005:

Alwin Holland Elementary - Fort St. John CANFOR Northwood Pulp Division Columbia College - Vancouver Cowichan Secondary School - Duncan Cowichan Valley Open Learning Co-op - Duncan Donald May - Kamloops Don Anderson - Galiano Island The Focus Corporation - Invermere Girl Guides of Canada - Surrey Greenwood Elementary School - Greenwood Jada Martinson, Canfor-Northwood Pulp - Prince George Joy Gallop - Maple Ridge Karen Alko - Burnaby KVR Middle School - Penticton Village of Lions Bay - Lions Bay Metchosin, District of Midway Elementary School - Midway Montecito Elementary School - Burnby OKM Secondary School - Kelowna Revelstoke School (District 19) School District 83 - Salmon Arm

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Alberta

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
A. H. Dakin School - Edson	- Field Trip to Edson Recycle Center - Litter Pick Up
Alberta Environment - Edmonton	In addition to supporting public events, Alberta Environment staff also look forward to celebrating Waste Reduction Week at the office. Activities vary from region to region, but the "Too Good To Waste" theme rings clear. Some of the events planned for 2005 include: - Everything Exchange; Free Trade event; CD-DVD-VHS Swap (bring in items and trade for other items. Anything left over is donated to a local charity). - Collections for local charities: toiletries, winter clothing, blankets, board games, art supplies, towels. - Daily waste reduction quizzes - Recycling relay - Tour of LEEDS certified building - Composting demonstrations - Create mini-golf stations from recycled items that include questions on waste - Guest speakers during lunchtime on waste-related topics.
Ann Grover Library - Crossfield	I am still in the process of planning my story hour curriculum but some thought of activities would be to read stories on recylcing and perhaps make or decorate a waste bin.
Aquatera - Grande Prairie	Aquatera, Alberta Environment, Weyerhaeuser, Recycle Plus and the City of Grande Prairie are joining forces once again to plan activities and events for National Waste Reduction Week. We have involved the local community in National Waste Reduction Week by having children from Alexander Forbes School announce public radio advertisements on Big Country XX and SunFM. Local students have created artwork with a waste reduction theme. Aquatera is offering a "Caught Recycling" contest. Aquatera will randomly choose a resident recycling at one of the recycling depots within the City or at the Recycle Centre for Building Materials from Otober 17th - 21st. The lucky resident will win a prize and have their picture published in the Daily Herald Tribune as well as Aquatera's utility bill inserts. Recycle Plus and the City of Grande Prairie are sponsoring free transportation, tours and presentations for grade 4 students during National Waste Reduction Week. The community event will be held at the Prairie Mall (Centre Court) on Sunday, October 23rd. Aquatera will be setting up a station for vermi worm composting, Weyerhaeuser will have a craft table, Recycle Plus will be bringing a bale of film bags for people to guess how many bags are in the bale, Alberta Environment will be setting up an interactive fishing pond display for children. The main event will be a celebrity environmental game show!! With special guests: Honourable Mayor Wayne Ayling, Bernd Manz, General Manager, Aquatera Utilities, Big Paul Thomas and a suprise member from the RCMP and our host Alan Segal, local TV personality. Aquatera will be sponsoring the grand prize of a one hour airplane tour of the city for 3 people. The committee is also distributing green ribbons to grade 4 students and businesses. They are asked to wear these ribbons in support of National Waste Reduction Week.
Athabasca Delta Community School Fort Chipewyan	The students will keep a record of all the garbage thrown out in their homes for the week of October 11-14, 2005. They will then come up with a plan to find ways to use some of the things they normally throw away. They will put this plan into effect during the recycling week. They will continue with it even after the Waste Reduction Week is over.
Barry Sernes - Hobbema	2005 Community champion challenge.
Calgary Materials Exchange - Calgary	Clean Calgary and the Calgary Materials Exchange (CMEX) are hosting a wood pallet workshop on October 19th "WASTE OR WASTED OPPORTUNITY – WHY REUSING AND RECYCLING WOOD PALLETS MAKES BOTH ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SENSE". This workshop will explore: - Alternatives to landfilling wood pallets - Successful Accounts from CMEX Participants - Saving your company money through reuse/recycling - Reducing your environmental impacts - Potential solutions to issues related to pallets reuse/recycling CMEX is an industrial and commercial waste exchange, assisting companies to divert waste from landfills in Calgary. 200 companies are already involved and have exchanged over 1000 items, diverting over 2300 tonnes of waste from landfill. For more information on the workshop or how your company can become involved and start recycling, visit www.cmex.ca or call 230-1443 ext. 226
Calgary Science School - Calgary	At our school, we have had BFI bring in a cardboard and paper recycling bin. We have compost bins in our garden and recycle our drink containers. We have set up recycling/waste centers in our classrooms. These include a paper box, compost and drink container buckets, and a SMALL garbage can.
Canada Revenue Agency - Calgary	Info booths, a waste audit, contests, etc.
Claudia's Choices - Calgary	We specialize in envirosponsible household products, including cloth diapers and laundry products. Our WR activities are at the core of our business mission, which is to provide families with envirosponsible but affordable everyday, useful products. We have initiated a 'bucket re-use' program for our phosphate free laundry powder where customers get $2 off their next laundry powder purchase when they return the bucket to us or to one of our retailers.
Clean Calgary Association - Calgary	Clean Calgary and the Calgary Materials Exchange (CMEX) are hosting a wood pallet workshop on October 19th "WASTE OR WASTED OPPORTUNITY – WHY REUSING AND RECYCLING WOOD PALLETS MAKES BOTH ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL SENSE". This workshop will explore: - Alternatives to landfilling wood pallets - Successful Accounts from CMEX Participants - Saving your company money through reuse/recycling - Reducing your environmental impacts - Potential solutions to issues related to pallets reuse/recycling Visit www.cmex.ca for more information on the workshop, or how your company can become involved and start recycling, visit www.cleancalgary.org
École du Sommet - Saint-Paul	The Grade 4 students are in charge of recycling paper, cardboard, etc. in the whole school. We sort out what is re-usable; that material is re-used in class (scrap paper, projects in art, etc). The rest goes to a recycling depot. Older students recycle bottles, cans, etc. Those beverage containers are brought to a bottle depot. The Grade 4 class will tour the recycling depot before or during Waste Reduction Week. Other activities planned: paper making using scraps (ex: construction paper) from classes; art projects using recyclable materials; collection and study of garbage collected in various classes during lunch hour; picking up garbage in school yard.
École St. Wilfrid Elementary - Calgary	Our Grade Four students are taking the lead in collecting and recycling paper, water bottles and juice boxes on a weekly basis throughout the year. They have created and put up posters in the school halls and given presentations to different classes.
Evergreen Regional Waste Management Services - St. Paul	Currently we are set up for e-waste collection, tire collection, and metals at all our Transfer Stations and Regional Site. The Commission is focusing on the completion of Transfer Station sites before addressing recycling on a larger scale.
The Freecycle Network - Edmonton	For WRW, Freecycle.org is Teaming up with WM - Waste Management to promote Freecycle. When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of your Freecycle group. Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure. One main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages. Non-profit organizations also benefit from The Freecycle Network. Post the item or items you want to give away and a local organization can help you get it to someone in need.
Geoff Williams - Edmonton	I am interested in seeing what waste reduction activities are going on during the year!
G.S. Lakie School - Lethbridge	We have involved our entire school and surrounding community in a local recycling challenge put on by the Lethbridge Herald newspaper. More details to follow!!! Soon!
Guy LaCoste - Nanton	217 K-6 students CAN reduce our footprint! Our grade 4 Eco-Pals team along with the EARS in every classroom are out to make a difference. We will show that reduction is possible. Monday is our weigh in! Students will then have the chance to learn from their teachers and the available resources that waste is always a concern. We will create daily garbage pizzas, weigh all waste, anlyze and share our results with the learning community. It will be hectic and grimy, but we are up to the challenge!-- Mr.L.
Imperial Oil Resources - Bonnyville	An enhanced recycling program is going to be rolled out to approximately 270 employees and 400 contractors. Recycle bins for boxboard, newspaper/glossy magazine/ metal cans and plastics will be set-up in 14 lunchrooms across Cold Lake Operations. Blue bags will be used in containers for recyclable material in conference rooms, photocopy and mail rooms and red bags will be used for refundable beverage containers.
Municipality of Jasper	- Alberta Environment "sort if out" and "let's talk trash" presentations at Jasper Elementary School. - Waste reduction trivia for staff. - Waste reduction facts will be distributed daily to local businesses and will be posted on our website www.jasper-alberta.com
Jonathan Lord - Calgary	I have been promoting recycling for many years in Alberta as an individual and in other roles. This year I would like to help publicize Waste Reduction Week in Calgary. Do you have any posters, brochures etc that could be handed out and posted in retail stores and community bulletin boards. If so, I would appreciate if you could send me some. Thank you for your assistance!
Karrie Jacobsen - Manning	We plan on participating with the 2005 Community Champion Challenge. Our school has a recycling program that the grade six help run.
Kelly Chapman - Red Deer	How clean is the air in your community? Several communities in Alberta are monitoring and managing their air quality. Find out how at the In the Zone: Airsheds Zones Conference in Edmonton on October 23 – 25, 2005. Registration is $50 and includes two days of sessions, lunch and a gala dinner. Hear how to set up, fund and operate an airshed zone. Gain strategies to work successfully with stakeholders in industry, government and the community. This process may also be useful in watershed development. For more info and to register for In the Zone, please call the Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA) at (780) 427-9793 or visit www.casahome.org.
City of Lethbridge	Free Grade 4 landfill tours and waste presentations at the landfill, a freecycle type garbage sale, and more.
Lethbridge Herald - Lethbridge	One thing new that we are really excited about is our Lethbridge Herald Paper Trail Challenge with the schools. To see more about this you can view on-line located on the front page of the Lethbridge Herald just off to the right side under Best Homes. This feature runs every month until April 2006 with advertising spots around the page. Every month in the center of the 2-page spread we will be printing and monitoring each school's progress with the recycling that they have done through their school. Each month we will be featuring the leading school with photos and editorial. Prizes for the schools are made up into 3 categories: 1st - Most overall weight recycled, 2nd - 2nd overall weight recycled & 3rd - Most original idea. We have been given 2 digital cameras from Staples, approx. 25 new trees to be planted from the City of Lethbridge, 200 passes from Calaway Park - Calgary & a classroom party from the Ramada Waterpark. The response has been great, just what Lethbridge needed.
McLeod School - Edmonton	Promoting awareness including recycling; posters; and vermicomposting.
Mimiw Sakahikan School - Wetaskiwin	We will be winter cleaning the school yard and sorting out the material to be recycled. In the school for our breakast and lunch programs, we use reusable dishes and containers rather that disposable ones. We also have a pop bottle/can recycle program. The students use photo copier mistakes as scrap paper in mathematics and for free time drawing.
Our Lady of Peace School - Calgary	Grade 4 students will create Elementary School Awareness Recycling Bookmarkers to share with the students. We will have at Noon Hour Grade 4 students giving out Bookmarkers and coming up with an interactive Science Board for giving information on recycling. Have a draw for a school prize.
Our Lady of the Prairies School - Edmonton	We are doing the Alberta Waste-Line Challenge! We're finding out how much garbage is produced by our classroom in one week and then we will submit our results and solutions!
PCL Construction - Edmonton	Four objectives have been set: - Reuse some unwanted coats and other warm items (Coats for Kids and Families Campaign) - Enhance our recycling efforts (add a few more recycling bins, incl. used battery disposal, metals and plastics) - Reduce our consumption in the office (turn off lights at night, turn off computer monitors at night, garbage-less lunches and paper conservation) - Increase our environmental knowledge (Ecological Footprint Challenge, ways to make non-hazardous cleaners, reviewing the life cycle analysis of a product)
P.E.L. Recycling - Calgary	During waste reduction week, trees will be placed in front of all businesses that are recycling with P.E.L. Recycling in Calgary to mark their leadership in environmental stewardship. At the end of the week, the trees will generously be donated to the City of Calgary and replanted. (October 24 11 am on the bluffs at the 14 St S.W. Dogpark).
Raven Toner & Ink - Calgary	Free pick-up in Calgary of ALL empty toner and inkjet cartridges for recycling. We remanufacture/refill cartridges when possible for reuse, break down and recycle plastics, metal and cardboard on non-refillable cartridges to have the least amount of waste possible end up in the landfill.
Recycle-Logic - Calgary	Feed the Hungry! Starve a Landfill! eWaste Recycling Drop Off for TVs, Computers, Laptops, Monitors, Printers and ANY other Electronics for Recycling at NO charge. Please bring a non-perishable food item for: Calgary Interfaith Food Bank Currie Barracks: behind AF44 on Quesnay-Wood Dr.SW (Turn off Crowchild onto Flanders Ave, go thru main gate of the Barracks, turn left at 4-way stop sign, immediately turn right at first driveway) Wed, Thurs, Fri 12 PM-5 PM and Sat & Sun 10 AM-5 PM Convenient "Drive-Thru" Service. Visit www.recycle-logic.com for Map or call 1-403-348-0770
Ritchie Junior High - Edmonton	Promotion by student Leadership Team. Bottle collection, garbage pick-up and emphasis on re-using photocopy paper.
MD of Rocky View - Calgary	The MD of Rocky View council will be proclaming Oct 16-22nd Waste Reduction Week. Presentations will be made to local schools highlighting our mascot "Hawksley the Hawk" and ways we can all help in "Keeping the View in Rocky View." We will be establishing two year-round E-Waste recycling locations (Irricana and Bragg Creek) and partnering with Recycle-Logic for education presentations.
Sacred Heart School - Wetaskiwin	The Grade 4 classes are involved with paper and bottle recycling. The materials are collected weekly and either brought to the paper recycle centre or to the bottle depot. Money collected from the bottles is used to support a trip to Drumheller at the end of the year. Students are asked to try some of the ideas presented at school at home to help minimize waste. A trip to the recycling centres was carried out by both Grade 4 classes.
Satinwood School - Clive	- We have a compost bucket in our classroom. - Collect juice boxes for recycling. - Collect waste paper for recycling.
St. Anthony School - Drumheller	We have yard clean-up weeks scheduled throughout the whole year. Each class is assigned a week where they have to tidy up all the trash from school property. We also have a beverage recycling program set-up with the grade five and six students. We return all the containers for deposit at the local bottle depot and we use the money for classroom materials/activities and donations to charity.
St. Elizabeth School - Calgary	We will be responsible for a school-wide paper recyling program from K-8. We will encourage students to recycle by doing brief class presentations to introduce the program. We will also be recyling beverage containers in our gym over the lunch hour.
St. James School - Edmonton	-We will be in charge of collecting recycling such as juice containers and paper. - We are studing Waste in our World. - We are setting up a composting experiment. - We will use composted materials in our future study of plant life cycles.
County of St. Paul	Proclamation.
St. Philip School - Calgary	We are going to do a classroom audit of waste, answer key question about our waste. Decide which waste could be diverted from the landfill, and come up with a plan to change something we are doing in our class to be less impactful on the environment. We will promote a school-wide litterless lunch on Wednesday October 19th, and show the whole school the results of waste gathered from the previous day, to the amount that is gathered on Wasteless Wednesday.
Sturgeon Heights School - St. Albert	Recycling juice boxes, pop cans, and plastic drinking containers
Sue Crocker - Calgary	The children in my class will create pamphlets explaining the issues and possible solutions. In small groups, the children will talk to other elementary classes about the pamphlets and distribute these to the other elementary students.
Taber Central School - Taber	Grade 4's are currently in charge of school recycling. I received an email about a contest we could enter. I would like a package and entry form for this. With both grade 4 classes we have 42 students. Thanks.
Timberlea School - Fort McMurray	We were doing this long before we heard of you contest. 1. We have set up and operate a vermicomposting bin. 2. We surveyed our lunch waste on a regular lunch day. We then learned and planned a garbageless lunch day. We compared our data. Each week on Wednesday, we make an extra effort to have a garbageless lunch. 3. We recycle paper, beverage containers, tin cans, jars, and cardboard in our classroom. 4. We reuse paper and construction paper when possible in our classroom. We have a reuse bin. 5. We are in the process of setting up a school-wide cardboard recycling system for the school in collaboration with the office staff and the custodial staff. The Wood option class is going to make up a mobile bin specially designed to fit in certain locations to enable a centralized location for the collection of and collapsing of cardboard boxes. Cardboard recycling was established in Fort McMurray last spring. We have a new cardboard drop location in our neighbourhood as of August. Up until August, you had to drive cardboard to the landfill. 6. We are learning to use both sides of a piece of paper on a regular basis. 7. Our next project is an oral packaging report. Students will find a package of their choice and report on recyclable, recycled, size, resource, reusable, biodegradability, convenience, purpose, and how to make improvements to the package that would decrease the environmental impact of the package
Viking School - Viking	Students have started a composter in our classroom. We recycle juice boxes, and pop bottles in our school. We use scrap paper for booklets and drawing on.
Webber Academy School - Calgary	Haven't planned everything yet, but currently, the grade four students have been monitoring cafeteria waste and are creating a waste awareness campaign.

Thank you to the following friends in Alberta who have registered for 2005:

Albian Sands Energy Inc. - Fort McMurray Covenant Canadian Reformed School - Neerlandia Devon Canada - Calgary Dove Centre Bottle Depot - Bonnyville Eastbrook Elementary School - Brooks Fleetwood-Bawden School - Lethbridge Hidden Valley School - Calgary City of Jasper - Jasper McLeod Elementary School - Edmonton Ponoka Elementary School - Ponoka Prince of Wales School - Calgary St Clement School - Grande Prairie Wainwright Elementary School - Wainwright

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Saskatchewan

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Kipling Industries - Kipling	Kipling Industries is the contracted MRF for the Red Coat Waste Authority. We would like to host an open house in our facility and attempt to increase the awareness of recycling in our community.
Minahik Waskihigan School - Pinehouse Lake	Theme of waste reduction in language arts, science and social studies, working towards a community project in paper recycling.
St. Dominic School - Saskatoon	We are still in the planning stages. We are discussing a waste-free lunch as well as promoting everyone walking or biking to school on a particular day that week.

Thank you to the following friends in Saskatchewan who have registered for 2005:

Assiniboia, Town of - Assiniboia Blaine Lake, Town of - Blaine Lake Early Childhood Education, University of Regina - Regina Val Marie School - Val Marie

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Manitoba

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Daniel McIntyre Collegiate - Winnipeg	We are presently recycling materials such as paper, cardboard, aluminum, plastic and glass. We have students collect the recyclables from the building once a cycle and sort them before they are picked up by a recycling company.
Mandy Whelan - Winnipeg	We compost year round and recycle. In the fall I tend to grab bags of leaves for my flower beds from neighbours on garbage days and thereby keep them out of the landfill site.
R.M. of Ochre River - Ochre River	We are planning to declare Waste Reduction Week and will be making a presentation in the school.
Red River Valley Junior Academy - Winnipeg	Recycling containers in each classroom and the home-economics rooms.
Resource Conservation Manitoba - Winnipeg	Recycling, composting, cycling, reducing, teaching, learning, reusing and sharing.
Smith Homeschooling Group - Winnipeg	We will be having a round-up of unwanted materials that can be donated or recycled. We will also be doing the waste audit to evaluate what we use each day and where/what we can do to improve. We are going to start our yearly reduce, reuse and recycle campaign. Also educating families and the community about the importance of waste reduction. Recycling products around the home rather than throwing out: - tin coffee cans can be turned into craft containers to hold anything from pencil crayons to glue sticks. - Kraft Dinner case-holders can be used as file folder holders. Using our minds and creativity to come up with some imaginative but useful ways of reusing rather than wasting.
Sargent Park School - Winnipeg	Classroom Activities from Resource Kit, education/advertising week to parents/community, and waste audit (hopefully).
Viviane Riding - Lake Francis	Our club members and family members, eagerly collect aluminum cans for refund and the funds are used for club activities, including ribbons at Achievement Day as well as hotdogs and fun! We also collect Ivomec containers for return. Our members are very committed to collecting recycling materials. Thank you, parents!

Thank you to the following friends in Manitoba who have registered for 2005: Gillam, Town of - Gillam Sansome Elementary School - Winnipeg Waskada Elementary School - Waskada Waskada, Village of - Waskada

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Ontario

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Adjala Central School - Loretto	On Monday, October 17 2005, a group of students from our school were invited to Queen's Park to participate in the opening ceremonies of Waste Reduction Week. Our school and another had been winners of a waste reduction program. We also toured the energy efficient Wildlife Care Facility in Kleinburg. We at Adjala maintain a strong focus on the importance of waste reduction at school and at home.
Alison Syer - Mississauga	We're an online message board that facilitates sharing of useful goods between people who no longer need them and people who can make use of these items so they don't go to landfills.
Andrea Ghassemian - Markham	This week we are promoting WasteLess Food Days. We are encouraging everyone to use re-usable containers and to take home any uneaten food. We recycle paper, cans, bottles, milk and juice cartons.
City of Barrie - Barrie	During Waste Reduction Week, Barrie's Waste Management Section have arranged for the following activities to take place in the City of Barrie: 1. "One Less Plastic Bag" Canvas Bag Promotion at Zehr’s on Big Bay Point Road from Thursday, October 20 to Saturday, October 22. 3,000 canvas bags to give away! Each family will receive a free canvas bag for their grocery shopping as they enter the Zehr’s store. City Staff will also be present with waste reduction displays to answer questions about Barrie’s waste management programs. 2. Launch of the Simcoe County Elementary School Art Contest to design the artwork to be displayed on the side of seven City of Barrie Recycling Collection Trucks. The art contest theme is "Improve your Space. Reduce the Waste." with a specific focus on curbside recycling. This is a joint venture between the City of Barrie Waste Management Section and the Simcoe County District School Board. 3. Waste Reduction Presentations will be conducted to area schools during Waste Reduction Week.
Barton School - Hamilton	-We are currently recycling paper, bottles and cans in the school. -For WRW, we are setting up a battery recycling contest which will run for about a month. The grand prize will be an IPOD, with lots of smaller prizes like a battery recharger with rechargeable batteries, etc.
Bedford Park School - Toronto	- we are initiating a littlerless lunch program called the "boomerang lunch" to promote recycling and conservation - selling Ecoschools litterless lunchbags to raise awareness of this program
Bishop Tonnos High School - Ancaster	- Classroom Trivia Competition - Neighbourhood Clean-up - Information Displays
Cameron Heights School - Kitchener	- litterless lunch days - recycling facts campaign - waste reduction challenge
Canadian Diabetes Association - Toronto	Our association currently has numerous programs in place that reduce the amount of waste that enters our waste stream while at the same time raise money for diabetes research. The Clothesline program collects slightly used household items and clothing. Diabetes Recycle Ink. recycles inkjet cartridges and laser toners. Charity Drive, in association with Car Heaven, recycles older automobiles. Project Redial recycles "retired" cell phones. All items collected are reused "as is," slightly remanufactured or recycled following the strict guidelines in place by the Canadian government.
Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts - Toronto	This week we are making announcements and encouraging "litterless lunches". On Thursday, October 20, we are having a 'clean-up the campus' day. On Tuesday, we will continue our regular recycling.
Caroline Demers - Casselman	Puisqu'il n'y avait de système de recyclage dans notre école, j'ai décidé d'en prendre la responsabilité en instaurant un sytème qui débutera le 31 octobre 2005. La visite d'un représentant d'une usine de recyclage, des bacs identifiés et la collaboration de tous pour la promotion du recyclage de toutes sortes. (Bricolage, papier brouillon, etc.)
Carruthers Creek School - Ajax	Our school was new last year. We have an Environmental focus here at Carruthers Creek P.S. During our first year, we established an Environmental Club, Recycling Team, and Composting Team. Our school promotes Boomerang Lunches. For Waste Reduction Week, our Environmental Club members will make daily morning announcements promoting our Litterless Lunch Contest for the week, recognizing classes doing the best job with their daily classroom recycling, sharing some shocking facts about garbage, as well as ways to reduce waste.
Casco Inc. Port Colborne Plant - Port Colborne	- paper, glass, can recycling - water and wastewater usage reduction - energy usage reduction
Cathy Green-Redekop - Ridgeway	We have planned to have morning announcements each day which will promote an environmental awareness informational fact and then challenge students to do some small thing each day such as: - clean out their desks and recycle any materials which can be - bring a litterless lunch - yard clean-up day - start a page on the school website where people can post things they want to exchange or give away.
Cathy's Composters - Bradford	Segment on Daytime Rogers, Monday October 17th, promoting Waste Reduction Week. Vermicomposting demonstrations.
Cathy Smart - Scarborough	The whole school will be filling out the school assessment sheet. Each class, lunchrooms and staff room will be sorting and weighing their garbage and recording the results on the assessment sheet.
Centennnial School - Guelph	A team of about 8 people including myself (James Murphy, Student Council President), are meeting every week to set this up. We currently have no recycling or composting. Those will be the first things we change. We don't know HOW we are going to fix the consumption of waste but that is next on the list.
Clarkson School - Mississauga	Awareness raising, posters, announcements
CompuCorps - Ottawa	CompuCorps Mentoring - Ottawa CompuCorps is a registered charity that operates reBOOT Ottawa. We champion computer reuse by collecting, refurbishing and distributing computers to those in need as identified by other charities in the Ottawa region. Recipients include low income and new Canadians. We are part of the national reBOOT Canada network. During Waste Reduction Week, Oct 17 – 21, we will be promoting computer reuse and providing information to companies on the environmental, community and corporate benefits of keeping surplus computers out of landfills or saving them from destruction. ReBOOT Ottawa will be accepting computer donations of Pentium 3 desktops and laptops from companies and will be providing full market value tax receipts an free pickup service. Subject to space, we will be accepting Pentium 2 computers and monitors. Pentium 1 computers and below will incur a service handling fee. For all Pentium 3 computers that companies donate we will provide a certificate of appreciation by level and will be organizing a tree planting event in the Spring of 2006 with volunteers from those companies participating during the week. Please contact us at: 613-234-7734 for further information or email us to arrange for a pickup at: info@compucorps.org or visit our web site at: www.compucorps.org. Residential E-waste items should be taken to the City of Ottawa hazardous waste event on October 23rd. Call them at 580-2400 for more details.
Cornell Junior School - Toronto	Our school has an ongoing initiative to reduce, reuse and recycle. The students recycle their pop cans, bottles, juice boxes etc. at lunch time. We also encourage litterless lunches by using plastic containers, lunch bags etc. We also have a garden at the front of the school.
Darlene Monkman - Ottawa	- email communications - installing recycling centres on two floors of the office
Dawson Court, Home for the Aged - Thunder Bay	Dawson Court has a comprehensive waste management program which includes waste reduction, the recycling and reusing of materials and the safe handling and disposal of hazardous waste. It includes the recycling of paper, glass, newspapers, cardboard, metal, pop cans, fluorescent lamps, batteries, furniture and equipment, construction materials and electronic waste. This program was developed over time with the input of staff and Residents and is expanded as waste diversion opportunities arise. From October 17-23, posters and resource material will be used to focus Staff, Residents, Volunteers and Visitors' attention on the benefits of waste reduction. Dawson Court has been a very active member of Thunder Bay's Zero Waste Action Team since 1993. ZWAT is promoting Waste Reduction Week within the IC&I sector and Community Organizatons and encouraging them to sign on and participate in Waste Reduction Week.
Dublin Heights School - Toronto	Continue >> Recycling and Greening programs Focus on Reduce >> Initiate Litterless Lunches, reduce overall paper useage, increase awareness around "lights off".
Duke of Connaught School - Toronto	This week (October 17-23), students at Duke of Connaught Public School will take a close look at the amount of waste our school produces in order to learn what types of educational programs could be most effective for our students. As part of an integrated action plan linked to the grade 7 science and math curriculum students will assess the amount of waste produced in our school, collect and analyze data and a follow-up educational program will be implemented to help our students learn more about the importance of waste reduction towards protecting the environment.
Dunwich-Dutton School - Dutton	Ongoing school-wide recycling program for paper, plastic, aluminum and glass, and compost program. We will have several educational announcements about need for waste reduction over the week.
Durham Region - Whitby	Durham Region proclamation of week by Regional Council. September Litter programs in high schools, recycling centre tours and activities.
Electro-Motive Canada Co. - London	Current recycling program includes the following materials: - Mixed paper; - Pop cans and plastic and glass beverage containers; - Cardboard; - Scrap Metal (including chips and metal sludge); - Computers; - Batteries (including dry cell batteries and wet cell batteries); - Organic Cafeteria Waste; - Wood pallets, scrap wood and wooden spools; - Empty drums and containers. Energy Conservation Program avoids wasting energy (natural gas and electricity) Energy Conservation Team. Employee Suggestion Program idenifying ways we can avoid wasteful practices both on the plant floor and office areas. During WRW we have WRW Newsletter which includes residential City of London recycling, reuse programs and work companies programs. Want employees to have environmental awareness at both home and work.
Eric Snyder - Nepean	I'll be developing a variety of initiatives with Freecycle groups in the Ottawa/Gatineau area, Ontario, and the rest of Canada, including over 100,000 Canadians actively involved in Freecycling. We will be referring our members to the WRWCANADA website to get ideas for their communities, their neighbourhoods, and their individual households.
Father Leo J. Austin School - Whitby	Waste reduction initiatives have just begun: litterless lunch, cell phone recycling campaign, fundraising concert and more to come.
F.J. Rutland School - Niagara Falls	We have a bulletin board displaying different ways of reducing waste with a student comment section. Every morning there will be recycling trivia and a classroom contest.
Fleming School - Scarborough	- beginning a new Environment Club - Litterless Lunch campaign - applications for more recycling and waste management bins - lunchroom compost (composter in butterfly garden) planned to begin shortly - daily announcements suggesting how to reduce waste at home, at school, in the community - school newsletter article about waste reduction in the school and suggestions for how to reduce waste at home
Froggy Fundraising - Stirling	Froggy Fundraising Inc. closes the loop by offering schools and organizations a selection of earth friendly products made from recycled paper. Students are taught how recycled paper is processed into our household paper products and how using these products in their homes and communities helps our planet. Friends and family in their communities can purchase these products and support their school or organization in an environmentally friendly way. Profits from fundraising campaigns support financial needs within their own organization or can be directed to other not-for-profit organizations they wish to support.
The Garbage Awareness Group - Guelph	The Garbage Awareness Group is a subgroup of GSEC (Guelph Students for Environmental Change) on the University of Guelph Campus. We are working to improve recycling on campus and increase awareness of garbage and landfill issues amongst students. Two major campaigns in the past year have included the (almost) elimination of Styrofoam for food usage on campus as well as the very successful Lug-A-Mug. We host Muggy Mondays where we give FREE coffee (organic, fair trade) tea to anyone with a reusable mug. Some activities we are planning for WRW include (but not limited to); - Display the garbage produced by the UC in one day for all to see - Bind scrap paper into notebooks - Make smoothies and selling at cost in a free travel mug in an attempt to fight remaining Styrofoam use on campus - Provide students with reusable dishware and convenient access to wash stations as well as Double stamp or savings when Tupperware or other dishes are used in the UC - Displays put up by the water conservation and renewable energy subgroups of GSEC.
General Motors of Canada Ltd. - Oshawa	- Audit Display - Waste Survey - Daily bulletins for the WRW - Reduction Week summary Display, presentations and contest will help to get more attention from employees. General Motors is committed to reducing waste, conserving resources and recycling materials at every stage of the product life cycle. At the Canadian Headquarters a three-tiered recycling plan for paper products, beverage cans and bottle and corrugated cardboard diverts the majority of waste generated from the landfill. Each desk at CHQ has a 1L pail that is emptied daily rather than a large garbage can, and a blue folder for paper recycling, reducing the amount of waste generated. Used office supplies such as file folders, staplers and binders are brought back to Office Supply Centre and reused.
Town of Georgina - Keswick	We plan on promoting a litter cleanup throughout the Town on the Saturday, October 22. Also, we are handing out litter bags to customers at our local drive thru restaurants. Other activites are being planned but not finalized as of yet.
Gertrude Colpus School - Oshawa	We have always participated in Waste Reduction Week. This year we will again start up the compost program and classes are encouraged to brainstorm ideas on how to reduce waste. We will also start a lights out program. We will have a bulletin board set up to share ideas and start off the week with a presentation for waste reduction during our Monday morning assembly. Our school already has a recycling program, but during waste reduction week we will be asking classes to find a recycling monitor to make sure no recyclables go into the garbage.
Grapeview Public School - St. Catherines	Grapeview's Waste Reduction and Recycling Efforts: Daily ongoing recycling efforts by our student Green Team. They are responsible for co-ordinating recycling of pizza boxes, cans, juice boxes and bottles. There is a lot of recycling due to the size of the school (about 700 kids). Green Team members also clean up garbage/recycling during recess. Recycling of used printer cartridges and old cell phones. In 2005 our school won a "Friendly School Challenge" in the Niagara District for the highest number of cartridges and phones recycled. This program recycles these items in turn for food for local food bank. - Instituted new battery recycling program in 2003. - Promoted recycling of old prescriptions to local pharmacy (prescriptions not brought to school). - Garbageless lunch days, walk to school day, reduction of paper usage in school. - School yard clean up from litter. - Participate in annual city "Pitch In" litter clean-up days. In process to "Adopt-a-Spot", city environmental initiative to maintain a given area in the city free from litter.
The Green Party of Canada - Ottawa	The Green Party of Canada is committed to sustainability. Within the national office we recycle all paper, ink cartridges and other office material. We collect coffee grounds and food products for personal composts. Our policies also encourage other Canadians to live in a sustainable manner.
Grenoble School - Toronto	We will be encouraging greater use of our recycling bins and re-educating our students as to how they work. We will also be encouraging students to bring litterless lunches to school, this week and every week.
H.G. Bernard School - Richmond Hill	- Over the course of the week, we are hoping to have every class participate in a schoolyard clean-up. - Members of the walking club will also be participating in a neighbourhood clean-up. - Members of the Green Team will be sending illustrations to an anti-litter calendar contest. - We will be encouraging staff and students to bring litterless lunches.
Hillside Montessori - Etobicoke	All the children will bring lunch in containers instead of plastic or brown bags.
Hillside Senior School - Mississauga	We have completed a waste audit and we are pursuing a wasteless lunch campaign. Cheers, Vincent Allen.
Holy Name of Mary - Pakenham	Litterless Lunches
Husky Injection Molding Systems - Bolton	Communications through email, bulletin board and safety talks. Contest during Waste Reduction Week Waste Management and Recycling Program Continuous Improvement mindset.
Hyde Park United Church - London	We plan to educate our congregation about WRW, offer them information from your website and from TREA (Thames Regional Environmental Association. Provide a drop off zone for hazardous wastes and take them to proper site. We currently use our city's recycling programme, have a garage sale biannually, support The Good Samaritan Cupboard that provides used clothing & household items to those in need. We have converted our lighting to low energy bulbs. Organized a book club that inspired brainstorming sessions about how we can help Mother Earth. We recommend the books, "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn and "Oryx & Crake" by Margaret Atwood.
Jacquelyn Macknight - Elliot Lake	We will be assisting coalition members in their activities to raise awareness of the effects of waste left unchecked in our communities and the need for waste reduction for the future.
Jason Richards - Ingersoll	- electrical outlet gaskets - caulking around windows - weatherstripping around windows and doors - insulate HW pipes - more insulation in attic - finish basement wall with insulation
Jennifer Verboom - Mount Brydges	We do clean up all the time around our meeting place and at our camp outs.
J.W. Trusler School - North Bay	- Collect pop can tabs for wheelchairs. - Composter demontrations. - Recycling tips during announcements. - Garbage collection in area. - Recycling awards. - Bagless lunches.
Kanata Freecycle - Kanata	Attempting to encourage reuse, reduce, and recycling in Kanata and surrounding area through "freecycling". On Average Kanata Freecycle saves *50-100lbs* of usuable stuff *A DAY* from the landfills. Everything that is posted is FREE! Please visit http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/KanataFreecycle/ Or to find a group near you please visit www.freecycle.org
Kanata Research Park Family Centre - Kanata	We are a JK/SK Split class and we are planning to do an alkaline battery collection drive where we will take them in. We are currently looking for partnerships in the community to promote the use of rechargeable batteries in the home and classrooms. We have recycling bins in our class and we are putiing them in the other classrooms as well. We pick up garbage from around our school to help make our earth cleaner.
Kenner Collegiate & Vocational Institute - Peterborough	As a class, we are doing the recycling at school once a week. I plan to promote waste reduction by hopefully bringing in a speaker on the subject, and introducing activities that will make students aware that everyone should participate in reducing waste.
Ken Peterson - Port Hope	My class and I will present information and ideas to reduce waste at our school during the week via announcements.
Leslie Armstrong-Dejongh - Woodstock	I am a member of an environmental committee for the City of Woodstock and for the CAW Local 636. I have used your resources in the past to help distribute facts, and info on a table top display. I have found the information very helpful and have re-used it many times. I am planning to set up a display/info booth at my place of work and in the community. There will also be a questionaire for a few prizes. The quiz will be multiple choice questions on recycling and waste reduction tips. Litterless lunches will be promoted as well.
Lincoln Avenue School - Ajax	The students at Lincoln Avenue Public School are actively involved in recycling paper and bottles. Every Friday, the Recycling Monitors from grades 1 to 8 send their recycling to the recycling depot for pick up. Also, the Primary/Junior students pick up waste and clean the school yard on a daily basis or when needed. Our school slogan is "Together We're Better in Recycling" and "Think Clean, Think Green". Daily announcements will be made during "Waste Reduction Week" by the Recycling and the Enviro Club from October 17-23, 2005.
Lynn Brunet - Ottawa	On Day One of the Waste Reduction Week 2005 we sent a global e-mail to all 4 institutions (Senate, House of Commmons, Library of Parliament and PWGSC-PPD)to give awareness on reducing material. We took the opportunity to send out the Waste Audit Results of 2004-2005. We also participate in a Blue Bag Program for the whole week. Employees will bring used clothes to be reused or recycled. All of this is being organised by the Partners.
Macphail Memorial School - Flesherton	1.) Review and improve recycling and waste diversion within the school. 2.) Appoint recycling monitors (rotating) within classrooms. 3.) Memo to parents about doing their part, especially about reducing packaging in lunches and sending reusable containers, water bottles, etc 4.) One recycling message per day during morning Announcements - "Did you know that..." format.
Major Ballachey School - Brantford	recycling, litterless lunches
Maurice Macknight - Elliot Lake	We have a constant reuse policy in this business as well as a stubborn tenacity to avoid using throw-away items. Materials used for projects and services are mostly recovered from previously used items. Part of the business mandate is to recreate items or to repair items to a usable form instead of adding them to a landfill. Part of our events will include a promotion or a price reduction for services during the Waste Reduction Week and a promotion working hand in hand with the Elliot Lake Freecycle group to bring awareness to the landfill waste in Ontario, Canada, North America and the world.
Mayfield Secondary School - Brampton	- paper and plastic recycling projects in effect - litterless lunch days Oct 17-23
Township of McNab/Braeside - Arnprior	The Township has several ongoing waste reduction initiatives over the past three years. In 2004 free blue program. Since 1999 no fees for scrap metal, appliances, recycle items, brush & yard waste. Since 2001, limit of two bags per week for curbside, extra bag needs a $1.00 tag for pickup. The Township proclaims every year and advertises the Waste Reduction Week to encourage residents to recycle, and reuse. Additional information is available at the landfill site, the office and on the web site: www.mcnabbraeside.com
McWinn-Ottawa - Ottawa	So far in 2005 we have cleaned approx. 6000 vehicle air filters and have returned them to our customers for reuse. The process to clean the air filters is a dry process (no liquids or chemicals are used) environmentally friendly system which can extend the life of the vehicle air filter on average 8-10 times. In 2005 we have diverted approx. 120,000 lbs of needless waste from our valuable landfill sites and have ensured that only filters which have truly come to the end of their useful life are condemned. After cleaning, filters are thoroughly inspected and tested to ensure performance, those filters failing to achieve our standards are rejected. Customers are not charged for rejected filters. If you are interested in more information about our process please give Fred Appel (President, McWinn-Ottawa) a call at 613-836-5050. "Saving you money today, saving the environment for tomorrow".
Mia Frankl - Hastings	I will purchase with a consciousness to make sure I do not take home a lot of packaging, I will compost all my wet waste, I will recyle or reuse as many products as possible, I will make my own cleaning supplies with baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice. I will encourage my friends and family to participate in WRW.
MintoUrban Communities - Toronto	MintoUrban Communities has issued a challenge to its employees in Toronto and Ottawa to come up with the best idea to reduce waste throughout our company. The winner gets a weekend for two at either our luxury suites in Toronto or our energy award winning Minto Place Suite Hotel in Ottawa.
Mother Teresa School - Markham	- Litterless lunch - Contest
Mount Albion School - Stoney Creek	Our school received a copy of the School Resource Kit for Waste Reduction Week. Staff decided to recognize this initiative by running a trial week of the "Boomerang Lunch Program" at our school. For the week, everything that students bring to school in their lunches must "boomerang" back home that same day. We hope that this will raise awareness of the amount of waste produced in our school during the lunch hours every day (whole sandwiches, pieces of fruit, etc.) It may even prompt kids to initiate packing their own lunches at home (using re-useable containers!), and foster EATING, NOT TOSSING, WHAT YOU BRING.
Napanee Freecycle™ - Napanee	Napanee Freecycle™ in co-operation with the Richmond Landfill (WM) are hoping to combine the annual "Large Item Drop Off" with "Waste Reduction Week", to raise awareness of Napanee Freecycle™ and the fact people have a choice to place their usable items in a designated area for Freecycle™; people give what they no longer want and take other items that they need for FREE, in the process lessening the burden on the Landfill. You can join a Freecycle™ group and Freecycle™ from your home for FREE. To find out more about Freecycle™ and to join a group in your area please go to www.freecycle.org
NDSS School - St. Catharines	Daily waste related questions read on the announcements. Students place their answers in a ballot box and environmental prizes are given out for correct answers.
New Prospect Public School - Dryden	We plan to encourage recycling in our school as well as possibly pilot a composting program.
Niagara Region - Niagara Falls	The following planned and initiated WRW tours of Niagara Recycling Plant: Elementary schools - Port Weller, General Vanier, Lockview. Secondary schools - Beamsville, Centennial and Fort Erie SS. Various other schools were involved in initiatives including St. Francois of the French Catholic School Board which started in-class recycling (had only hallway and lunchroom bins before). Classes made beautiful posters to advertise the change. Grapeview did a week long litterless lunch.
Nienkãmper Furniture & Accessories, Inc. - Scarborough	We are starting a green committee and educating employees about waste reduction.
County of Northumberland - Cobourg	Composter sale, tours of recycling plant, anti-littering promotion.
Northwood Academy - North York	The green bin program has just started in our area. We have requested one for the school. One has been given to the church we are in but we have requested our own. We now have 2 garbage cans in each room, one for regular stuff and one for green bin stuff. Also we are sending all tetra packs and lunch wrappers home with the children to encourage litterless lunches and snacks. We are very keen on recycling the usual egg cartons, paper rolls, etc into art projects. We have a recycle box in the office which gets a lot of use.
Town of Orangeville	The Town of Orangeville is educating residents daily on reducing the garbage bag limit, use of backyard composting, and the use of our yard waste program. The Town is also looking into the green bag composting program for 2006.
Orleans Freecycle - Orleans	Raising awareness of WRW by referring Orleans Freecycle members to WRW's website for resources and activities, and keeping useful and usable items from landfill with a special challenge during Waste Reduction Week. To join, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrleansFreecycle or www.freecycle.org
City of Ottawa	On Sunday October 23, the City of Ottawa will be hosting a one-day collection event for household hazardous wastes in order to prevent this material from being discharged to landfills. This is one of 11 depots that was organized for the residents of Ottawa in 2005 for their household hazardous wastes.
Ottawa Carleton District School Board - Ottawa	I teach adults with developmental disabilities. At our school the Steps to Community class has started a recycling and shredding program to help the environment. For waste reduction week we are going to measure our ecological footprint make a craft out of recycled material make signs to put up around the school promoting recycling and take the recycling challenge
Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre - Pembroke	The OVWRC is a waste management facility in partnership with Petawawa, Pembroke, Laurentian Valley, North Algona Wilberforce and Sebastopol Ward of Bonnechere Valley. To celebrate WRW we will be giving away reusable cloth bags to customers at local grocery stores and the Mall. For the schools in our area, we are holding a Drawing Contest in which we invite students (Grades 1-12) to submit drawings/pictures that promote recycling and proper waste management. The winning entries will be selected during WRW and appear in a 2006 Environmental Calendar. We will also be holding a "Get Caught Recycling" contest where staff will head out to the streets looking for people recycling and award them a prize.
Peel Region - Brampton	Proclamation of week in Regional Council, display in the lobby of Headquarters, ads in local papers, presentations in the community, school contest and daily quiz questions for staff.
Prince of Peace School - Scarborough	We have a classroom vermicomposter. The children are learning the role of worms in decomposing food scraps. They weigh the food scraps to see how much garbage we are keeping out of the garbage can. Litterless lunches and recycling are ongoing waste reduction activities.
Princess Elizabeth School - Orangeville	- Bulletin Board display - Announcements - Litterless lunch campaign
Prince of Wales School - St. Catherines	We recycle blue box, grey box and we compost. A 'Recycling Team' collects the recycling. The compost is picked up daily. For WRW we are holding a litterless lunch, poster contest and the recycling team is reading 'recycling facts' over the announcements daily. Classes will then hold classroom discussions about these facts. Each class is building something from all the recycled items in their blue and grey boxes. Prizes will be awarded for each of these activities. Photos will be taken throughout the week and posters and creations will be on display in the front hall. The local paper will be called.
Rainy River Watershed Program - Emo	Rainy River First Nations has a number of waste reduction initiatives, including educational workshops, community composting, recycling and a community garden.
Recool Canada - Thunder Bay	Recool Canada Inc., the largest recycling/waste management company in Northwestern Ontario, will be hosting the kick-off for Waste Reduction Week at 10:00 am, Oct 14, at our Material Recovery Facility in Thunder Bay. Mayor Peterson will be launching the event, and councillors, members of the ICI sector, as well as media, will join us for a tour of the plant and will promote the upcoming weeklong activities planned in the community and schools. Recool Canada is also a proud member of ZWAT: Zero Waste Action Team. Helen Trochimchuk, Sales Account Manager, of Recool Canada, is the Treasurer of ZWAT
Rideau Regional Centre - Smith Falls	Approximately 500 staff serve about 400 people with developmental disabilities in our facility. We plan to take an average bag of garbage and sort it into recyclables and garbage. We also hold a dance, displays and free draws.
Robert Little School - Acton	We are recycling containers and paper as part of the Halton District School Board's School Appeal Program. Plus we are collecting apple cores, banana peels, etc. and composting them. We have used the compost to fertilize the School Garden that we opened in June.
Rockford School - Toronto	1. Establishment of an ECO team of students and staff 2. Bring awareness via posters, announcements etc. using the Too Good to Waste! message 3. Begin paper recycling program 4. Weigh classroom's garbage generated at lunch time 5. Assembly introducing the ECO members & information on recycling materials vs. garbage 6. Graph November energy consumption this year vs. last year. This year extra fridges, computers, lights will be turned off during unnecessary times.
Saint François d'Assise - Welland	We already recycle paper throughout the school and we recycle cans and bottles only in the lunch room. We are going to start recycling cans and bottles in the classrooms with the help of our environmental committee. We are having a competition within each class to see who can be the most organised in their recycling. Each class is also asked to make a poster that will be displayed throughout the school.
Sasha Finley - London	- We are holding our annual fall yard waste (leaves, pumpkins) composting event for employees. Employees bring their yard waste for composting and in the spring employees receive free compost and mulch from the material they dropped off in the fall. - Expand our sanding disc & popcan reuse program. - Waste reduction tips for employees in our internal newspaper. - Distribute recycling/reuse program pamphlet to employees.
Sawmill Creek School - Ottawa	- School Recycling Program (our student EarthCARE team prepared comprehensive posters for each classroom indicating what can and cannot be recycled) - Litterless Lunches Earth Day Bags (we decorate the paper recyclable bags from our local grocery store and then hand them out on Earth Day to encourage the use of recyclable materials and to promote Earth Day) - Poster Recycling - Printer Cartridge Recycling - We have an active EarthCARE team which comes up with many ideas each year to promote the protection of our planet.
Simcoe County Board of Education - Barrie	We plan to write to every one who does not use recylced materials to put their products in.
Southside School - Woodstock	We are starting a more comprehensive recycling program. We have been interested in composting; however, we need some guidance as to how to make it functional within a school setting. Students have been challenged to reduce their waste by bringing litterless lunches.
Springdale School - Brampton	We will be making announcements everyday to remind staff and students of the ways they can reduce, reuse and recycle. Our Green Club will be challenging the school to participate in a environmentally friendly activity during the week. The Green Club will also be cleaning up our school yard.
St. Antoine School - Niagara Falls	For the waste reduction week, we had a competitive activity between classes. Our environment committee visited each class daily at the last recess and counted the number of articles in each of the garbages; the grey paper recycle bin, the blue recycle bin, and the regular garbage can. We then totalled all articles together to find the winning class for that day. Members from the environment committee spoke every morning on the intercom system after morning announcements. They first gave a daily suggestion on how one can reduce garbage, then they announced the winning class of the previous day with detailed information on how much garbage was found in each bin. On Monday, we plan on congratulating the winning class by giving gifts to each student in that class. The gift has not been determined as of yet.
Stayner Collegiate Institute - Stayner	On a continual basis, Stayner Collegiate is composting from our cafeteria and staff room, recycling fine & coarse paper from all of our classrooms and work areas as well as beverage containers, conduct "natural light days" and collect used batteries for hazardous waste collection to divert from our landfill sites. Our school is a "test pilot" in Simcoe County District for a reusable dishes initiative to bring back "real" dishes and cutlery into the cafeteria. As part of the Waste Reduction Week, we plan to initiate wasteless lunches with a raffle at the end of the week. Raffle tickets will be given to students found in the school with a wasteless lunch each day of the week and the raffle will be held on the final day of Waste Reduction Week. We also plan to re-establish our cafeteria composting for the students. We have 4 compost bins on site which our staff and kitchen are presently using. We will also be collecting clothing and small household items for the Canadian Diabetes to divert from the landfill sites.
St. Brigid School - Stouffville	For the week we will be encouraging Litter-less Lunches. On Thursday we will be checking for the classroom with the least garbage and they add points to their "spirit numbers". We continue to collect recycle from our classrooms despite the fact the town does not collect from us. Our parents collect and bring to the Depot for us weekly. Small steps but we continue to care the environment!
St. Elizabeth Seton School - Burlington	- inform school body with educational announcements - host a Waste-less lunch day
St. John Bosco School - Barry's Bay	This will be a renewal year for us. Not much has been done over the past several years. Teachers will be spending time to reteach students the three R's. Students and teachers will use the assessment tool to examine how we are doing and come up with a plan for the school for the remainder of the year. Administratively I will support any initiative possible from purchasing new containers to sending students to the local recycling centre.
St. Mark School - Stouffville	Our school is having a trash clean up day. Grades 1-5 are cleaning our school yard. Grade 6 is cleaning front of the school. Grade 7-8 are cleaning a local park. The gloves and garbage bags were given to us by the Municipality of York Transportation Dept.
St. Mary's French Immersion - Sault Ste Marie	Recycle in the classroom, yard clean up, poster made for awareness
St. Paul School - Ottawa	Oral and Written Daily Announcements will occur encouraging teachers and students to discuss ways to celebrate and participate in the program's theme "TOO GOOD TO WASTE". The website will be promoted and hopefully some classes will organize an activity or event.
St. Thomas Aquinas School - Thunder Bay	Waste reduction, reusing and recyling will be part of our "School Improvement Plan" for the 2005/2006 school year.
St. Vincent de Paul School - Markham	Students have designed posters.
Summit Heights School - North York	Our school has been recycling for many years! We will have daily announcements to remind everyone to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost. All residents of North York will be starting to use the Green Recycling Garbage Bins on Monday, October 24th. We will create a bulletin board to show the children which things to put in the green bins and which things to put in the garbage. If possible, I would like to start this wet recycling at our school too! As part of our school greening objectives, we will be planting two new trees next to our playscape as well as replacing two trees that were vandalized. I plan to continue planting at least one new tree a year on our school property through fundraising.
Sunningdale School - Oakville	- All eating confined to school building so waste can be monitored. - Blue boxes in place for paper and containers. - Litterless lunch programs. - Members of ECOKIDS following their monthly calendar suggestions and reminders for waste management.
Susan Jillian Smith - Richmond Hill	Build another compost area in my yard. Add more worms to current compost areas and have indoor worms for reduction of food stuff - rather than creating disposable waste. Worms also consume paper products and some fabrics.
Sweet's Corners School - Lyndhurst	Here at Sweet's Corners Elementary School we have been recycling paper and cans, and composting for approximately 15 years. Our recycling team averages 50 to 60 members. This year I've limited the team to students from Grades 4, 5, and 6 because the numbers of students wishing to participate was so large. We have planned an Exchange Day, for Friday 21st, to celebrate our commitment to Waste Management. The students will be bringing in an item, in good condition, that they no longer use and exchange it for a "new to you" item.
Terraview-Willowfield School - Toronto	We will be making posters and announcements to promote Waste Reduction Week. We will initiate litterless lunches.
Terry Fox School - Barrie	We are planning to challenge all classes to turn their garbage cans upside down for one week. We are also promoting litterless lunches and more lunch creativity.
City of Thunder Bay	Tentative: School Presentations; Battery Round-Up; Great Pumpkin Compost Collection "Put Jack in the Box, NOT in the Trash!"; "Get Caught Recycling" Promotion; Retail Educational Program; ZWAT (Zero Waste Action Team) Program TBA; Extensive media promotional campaign; Retail Paint Sticker Program. This year's program will spotlight waste reduction initiatives in apartments.
Toronto & Region Conservation - Toronto	We are planning on organizing a large community clean-up event on October 23, 2005 in the Town of Caledon. We are anticipating 30 - 50 participants. We organized a clean-up event in the spring of 2005 in the same area and removed 3000lbs of garbage with the help 28 volunteers.
Tyendinaga School - Shannonville	We have a Litterless Lunch week-long campaign planned for Waste Reduction Week. Recycling Team members will measure the contents of classroom garbage bins, and will award prizes for the Recycling Champion Class. We also highlight our cell phone and used printer cartridge collection programs, which run throughout the year.
Waubaushene School - Waubaushene	Our school will have a garbage goblin. The goblin will be given to the class in the school who has recyclable materials in their garbage can. This class must get rid of the goblin that day to another class. The teacher records how many days they get the garbage goblin. At the end of the week, a prize will be rewarded to the class(es) which has never received the goblin for having recyclables in their garbage. The Green Team members will also do a daily announcement reminding the school that they DO NOT want the goblin! They will also do consciousness reminders about what is garbage, how to reduce waste, and what can and can't be recycled.
Westvale School - Waterloo	- "Radio-style broadcasts" across the school, every day, by groups of students. - Verifying that each class has and is using a box for paper recycling. - No students or staff allowed to eat outside. - Recycling and garbage containers outside every 3 classrooms for 100% cleanup. Student teams to do classroom recycling.
Town of Whitby	Proclamation and looking at other events
Willow Glen School - Mississauga	-no waste lunch competition
Winston Churchill School - Waterloo	We are planning on having a Litterless Lunch on Thursday, October 20.
Zero Waste Action Team - Thunder Bay	www.zwat.org has more than 30 members of the IC&I sector and Community Organizations (including educational institutions) working together to eliminate waste and manage resources in Thunder Bay since 1992. We will be meeting on September 21 to plan our waste reduction activities.

Thank you to the following friends in Ontario who have registered for 2005:

12th Whitby Fallingbrook Scouts - Whitby Action Centre - Eganville Bellmoore Public School Bloorlea Middle School - Toronto Burleigh Hill School - St. Catherines Community Earth Works - Eganville Ernst & Young - Toronto Forest Hill Public School - Kitchener General Dynamics Canada - Ottawa Glenview School - Burlington Gordon McGregor Public School - Windsor Harrison School - Georgetown Holy Trinity Catholic High School Homeschool - Emsdale J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate - Ajax Kennedy Elementary School - Toronto Lorne Park Secondary School - Mississauga Loyola Adult Learning Centre - Picton Mother Teresa Catholic School - Courtice Norwood District High School - Peterborough Novelis Inc - Kingston Ontario Liquor Board Employees' Union OLBEU - Kitchener Orchard Park Elementary School - Orillia County of Oxford - Woodstock Pioneer Ridge Home for the Aged - Thunder Bay Russell Langmaid School - Toronto Seeker Green Products Ltd - Markham Sid Malkani - Georgetown SNC Lavalin Profac - Toronto Solestom Swimwear - Pembroke St. Aloysius Gonzaga School - Mississauga St. Luke Catholic High School - Smith Falls St. Mary's School - Lindsay Tara Shields - Ottawa Tiger Drylac Canada Inc. - Guelph Woodland Christian High School - Breslau

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Quebec

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Bottle Cap Lure - Sherbrooke	We are the World's First Metal and Plastic Bottle Cap Recycler. We also manufacture fishing lures made of the metal bottle caps. www.hookedonrecycling.com and www.bottlecaplure.com
Roi Du Pc - Ville St-Laurent	We already recycle all old computers and peripherals. People and companies give us their old computers to be either recycled or put back in the market .

Thank you to the following friends in Quebec who have registered for 2005:

AANTC Tribal Council - Maniwaki Municipalite de Lac-Beauport Mauricie Elementary English School - Trois-Rivieres

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Newfoundland/Labrador

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Ernst & Young - St. John's	Preliminary activies include paper and cardboard recycling awareness campaign and a cell phone recycling drive. Other activities to be planned.
Mike Garreaux - Stephenville	Why were Public Libraries not included in this promotion? Public Libraries in Newfoundland and Labrador service 95% of the population.

Thank you to the following friends in Newfoundland/Labrador registered for 2005:

Angela Bertin, Environmental Technology Student - Cornerbrook Town of Trout River - Town River

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New Brunswick

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
St. Stephen High School - Old Ridge	- Environmental Science classes collect and recycle school paper all year. - We visit the Southwest Solid Waste Commission to see their program and new cells being opened. - We have plastic recycling competitions between classes.
Sussex Middle School - Sussex	- Use the Powerpoint presentation and related activity in our classrooms to increase student awareness. - Plan a Litterless Lunch Day with rewards for students. - Include photos and signatures of students who do the school's paper and bottle recycling in our Green School Project Binder.

Thank you to the following friends in New Brunswick who have registered for 2005:

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Nova Scotia

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Basinview Drive Community School - Bedford	The students will clean up a nearby community recreation area.
Beaver Bank Monarch School - Beaver Bank	Our first grade class participates in the school recycling program. This includes recycling paper, milk cartons, juice boxes, and aluminum products. In addition we participate in frequent playground clean-ups. A new program we started this year is to have each child in our class bring a large ziplock bag labled compost. In this bag they take home what they have not eaten or any other food waste. This material is taken home and put in the compost bin. All of these waste management techniques are working very well and we are always looking for new ways to reduce waste and maintain a healthy environment.
Beechville Lakeside School - Timberlea	BLT Elementary School has 800 students who will all be taking part in our WRW activities. We are encouraging all students to bring litterless lunches to school for the entire week. Our staff members are going to double side all photocopies or shrink the information so more than one fits on a page. Each class is going to create an art display from material destined for the landfill. The art will be on display for all to see after WRW.
Central Kings - Cambridge	Just introducing this concept into my social studies unit.
Chedabucto Education Centre/Guysborough Academy - Guysborough	We have established a school "Green Team" (in partnership with our Teen Health Centre) which will work in conjunction with Public Health staff, school caretakers, District of Guysborough Municipality staff, schoolboard staff and school administration to support our school as we implement our school-wide recycling program. Some of the components of the initiative will include student-led classroom and community information sessions, establishing classroom recyclers, ongoing supervision and monitoring of our initiatives.
Chuck Williams - Beaverbank	Our school Green Team uses proceeds from redeemable beverage container collection to sponsor the education of a secondary school student in Haiti. The team has expanded its collection locations to include the community playing field. Classrooms are now participating in source separation of paper, plastic and metal materials. Our school is particpating in a Halifax Regional School Board energy audit and conservation program designed to put money back into the classroom.
École Chebucto Heights School - Halifax	- plastic grocery bag scarecrows - reuse pudding and fruit cups for art activities - redeem juice boxes/cans/bags - recycle paper cuttings and waste paper - separate compostables (organics)
École John W. MacLeod/Fleming Tower School - Halifax	Our school is very conscious of the environment and how students can work to protect it. All throughout the school we have compost and recyclables bins for recess time and lunch hour. We have an Enviro Team made up of 24 students in grades 3-5 who work at lunch hour to gather and empty these bins. We will be training these students to educate the other students in the school about what kinds of garbage go where (recyclables, refundables, regular garbage and compost). We plan to hold an assembly in April (Earth Day) to promote the environment, the 3 R's and enery and waste reduction etc. Our school has also been 1 of 10 chosen in our school board to participate with Clean Nova Scotia in an energy reduction project. Training for our Enviro Stars starts this month.
Halifax Regional Municipality - Halifax	Open House at Material Recycling Facility Hosted by Solid Waste Resources and Miller Waste Saturday, Otober 22nd, 2 - 4 pm, 50 Chain Lake Drive, Bayer's Lake Business Park. Come see how recyclable material is handled and manufactured in to new products and materials! Mobile Household Hazardous Waste Depot Saturday, Oct. 22nd (9am to 4pm) Eastern Passage Fire Hall, 1807 Caldwell Rd. Visit www.halifax.ca/wrms for more details. Mayor Peter Kelly has declared Waste Reduction Week in Halifax Regional Municipality October 17th to 23rd.
Harold T. Barrett School - Lower Sackville	Recycling of all paper and paper products, as well as recycling bottles. Lessons geared towards educating students about the importance of reducing waste through reducing, reusing and recycling.
Joseph Giles School - Dartmouth	We will be encouraging the students to bring their snacks and lunches in reusable containers. The students will also be encouraged to use both sides of their papers before putting paper in the recycle bin.
Lakefront Consolidated School - Tangier	Last year this school did an amazing greening project. They built flower beds and planted a pumpkin and potatoe garden. This year we will use the crops at a harvest party!
L.C. Skerry School - Waverley	Student-led "Eco-Team" collects paper from classrooms twice weekly for recycling. They also collect refundable beverage and milk containers for recycling.
Ridgecliff Middle School - Halifax	- Yard sweep. - Collection of recyclables (within school and at home) to cash in at local recycling depot for rundraising for the grade 8 environmental trip (Vision 20/20).
Ross Road School - Dartmouth	Recycling at school, at home, keeping school grounds tidy, presentations in classroom by students about how they are being resourceful in recycling and reusing materials.
RRFB Nova Scotia - Antigonish-Guysborough	- Book Swaps at several schools in Antigonish – Guysborough - Get Caught Radio Contest to reward people doing great things for the environment. - Radio Trivia Contest – tune in to the Hawk 101.5 FM for environmental trivia. - Blue Box Business Visits - to distribute waste reduction information and thank local businesses for recycling and composting. - Adopt-A-Highway Litter Clean Up, Route 16 Monastery to Guysborough Friday, October 21 - Antigonish Superstore Information Booth – October 19th For more information, call (902) 533-2801
RRFB Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Regional Municipality	- Community Swap - ACAP Center, Sydney, October 20, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm (Drop off of materials on Thursday, October 19th) - Waste Reduction Displays - North Sydney Mall, Glace Bay Library, Sydney River Superstore - ICI Appreciation Event – ACAP Centre, October 18th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm - School Visits – presentations at several elementary schools with RRFB Nova Scotia’s Recycling Robot, Moby S. Loop - Community Clean Ups – North Sydney, Glace Bay - Blue Bag Audits – Municipal Recycling Facility (all week) For more information, call (902) 563-5054
RRFB Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Rural Municipalities	- Community Swaps Inverness Fire Hall, October 15th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm - St. Michael’s Hall, Baddeck, October 16th, 1:00 – 3:00 pm - Waste Reduction Displays – Port Hawkesbury Mall, Baddeck Freshmart, Neil’s Harbour Coop - Brown grocery bag contest – local elementary schools will decorate brown bags with waste reduction messages that will be distributed at local grocery stores - Blue Box Business Visits to distribute waste reduction information and thank local businesses for recycling and composting. For more information, call (902) 787-3512
RRFB Nova Scotia - Colchester County	- Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day – October 22, MacMillan Show Centre, Bible Hill - Business Audits – staff will be sorting through loads of waste at the Balefill Facility throughout the week and visiting businesses to discuss their findings. For more information, call (902) 897-0450 x.106
RRFB Nova Scotia - Cumberland	- Get Caught Radio Contest to reward residents doing something good for the environment. - Business Visits - Delivering blue boxes and brochures to offices. For more information, call (902) 667-5141 x.223
RRFB Nova Scotia - Municipality of East Hants	School Contest – Waste reduction quiz for elementary classes. For more information, call (902) 758-1800 x. 307
RRFB Nova Scotia - Halifax Regional Municipality	- Open House – Recycling Facility – 50 Chain Lake Drive, Bayers Lake Business Park October 2:00pm to 4:00 pm - Mobile Household Hazardous Waste Depot - Saturday October 22nd , 9:00 am to 4:00pm, Eastern Passage Fire Hall - Community Swaps (Hosted by Clean Nova Scotia) October 21 - Cole Harbour Fire Hall, Portland Street (3pm - 8 pm) October 23 – Alderney Landing, Dartmouth (10 am – 2 pm) For more information, call (902) 490-4000
RRFB Nova Scotia - Pictou County	- Get Caught Radio Contest to reward residents doing something good for the environment. - Blue Box Business Visits to distribute waste reduction information and thank local businesses for recycling and composting. - Book Swaps at several schools in Pictou County - Hauler Appreciation Day, Pictou County Landfill - New Glasgow Superstore Brown Grocery Bag Contest, in cooperation with grade 3 &4 students from schools in Pictou County. For more information, call (902) 396-1495
RRFB Nova Scotia - South Shore/West Hants Counties	- Blue Box Business Visits to distribute waste reduction information and thank local businesses for recycling and composting. - Wasteless Lunches – to be held in several schools across the region. - Smart Shopper Rewards – residents practicing "smart shopping techniques" (buying in bulk, buying durable not disposable products) will be rewarded with reusable cloth bags. For more information, call (902) 354-3709
RRFB Nova Scotia - Valley Region: Annapolis and Kings County	- Book, Toy, and Costume Swap, October 22 at Annapolis East Elementary, Middleton - Get Caught Radio Contest to catch residents doing something good for the environment. - Free Tip Fees – random rewards for businesses recycling and composting correctly at the Valley Waste Management Centres - Business Visits - Delivering blue boxes and informational brochures to offices across region For more information, call (902) 679-1325 or toll-free 1-877-927-8300
RRFB Nova Scotia - Western Region: Digby, Yarmouth, Barrington	- Community Swap: Saturday, October 22, Saulnierville Legion. Drop off from 9h30 - 11h00, free pick up from 11h30 to 1h30. Admission is free. - Blue Box Business Visits to distribute waste reduction information and thank local businesses for recycling and composting. - Get Caught Radio Contest to catch residents doing something good for the environment. - Save Your Leaves Promotion – Clare and Lobster Bay Shoppers - Clare Area Reusable Cloth Bag Program – local retailers in the Clare area. For more information, call (902) 742-1312 or toll-free 1-800-569-0039
Sackville Heights School - Lower Sackville	Our school has a recycling program in place. Students use our blue bins on a consistent basis. A teacher volunteer takes the refundable items to the local recycle buisness and we purchase items for the classrooms. For WRW this year I would like to challenge my class not to use any sheets of paper (use the back of blank sheets in their duo-tangs) and perhaps make an art collage out of wrappers they find on the school grounds and give it the title DON'T BE A LITTER BUG! We have a Christmas wrap each year where we recycle old toys and games etc. Children go to the larger room where things are displayed and purchase these recycled items for a few pennies. This has always been a huge success.
Saint Francis Xavier University - Antigonish	We are planning on hosting a bottle drive on campus with prizes for the residence that donates the most (all profits going to our school's volunteer literacy council). We will be doing a demonstration of food wastage at our campus dining hall as well as one showing paper wastage by photocopying etc. We will also be organizing various daily contests and activities for children in the community.
St. Patricks Alexandra School - Halifax	Registration for my Grade 6 Class
Sydney Florian - Kingston	I am the Environment Officer at my work and I wish to reduce waste in the workplace and at our employees' homes. I will be placing posters and pamphlets around work as well as internal E-mails. I hope that this information will help make people more aware of the effect waste has on our environment and show them how we can prevent any future damage. I wish to arrange a clean-up afternoon of the local walking park, getting everyone actively involved.

Thank you to the following friends in Nova Scotia who have registered for 2005: Amy Florian - Kingston Cheryl Graham - Middleton Duc d'Anville School - Halifax Flexible Learning & Education Centre (FLEC) - Halifax Herring Cove Jr. High School - Herring Cove St Pat's High School - Halifax Truro Adult High School - Truro

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Prince Edward Island

Organization	WRW Activities or Events

Thank you to the following friends in Prince Edward Island registered for 2005:

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Yukon Territory

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
City of Whitehorse	-Waste Watch Program -Free Waste Assessments -One Tonne Challenge Campaign -Christmas Tree Collection -Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days -Regular ads in the newspaper with a Waste Reduction theme -Paint Exchange at City Landfill

Thank you to the following friends in the Yukon Territory registered for 2005:

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Northwest Territories

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Recyling & Waste Management - Fort Smith	We have recently received an EcoAction grant to create a recycling and waste management education and awareness program and explore recycling options here in Fort Smith. For WRW I have arranged for stores in town to give a 3 cent refund for every new bag they do not have to give out.

Thank you to the following friends in the Northwest Territories registered for 2005:

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Nunavut Territory

Organization	WRW Activities or Events

Thank you to the following friends in the Nunavut Territory registered for 2005: Coman Arctic Ltd

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