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British Columbia

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Alex Aitken Elementary - Duncan	We recycle all juice boxes, aluminum cans and plastic juice containers that are sent to school in student lunches. We also have a composting program for all organic waste. Parents are encouraged to send both liquids and solids for lunches in re-useable containers.
Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership - Prince George	An employee awareness campaign.
Carney's Waste Systems - Squamish	District of Squamish declared Waste Reduction Week in Squamish.
C. G. Howe Middle School - Abbotsford	1. No garbage lunch 2. No plastic bag used for 1 week challenge
Chilliwack, City of	Waste Reduction Week in Chilliwack takes place Oct 14 - 21. The dates were changed to include the City's Household Hazardous Waste Day and Electronics Recycling in the list of events. WRW Events will include: - Household Hazardous Waste Day and Electronics Recycling (October 14) - Elementary School Recycling Workshops: Elementary school classrooms will receive presentations about Chilliwack's curbside recycling program. - Retail Participation: Stickers with information about proper paint disposal procedures will be applied to paint cans at participating retail stores. Retailers will also give frequent in-store announcements and place product-specific shelf cards throughout the store that provide tips for minimizing and reducing waste, making environmentally-wise shopping choices, and properly disposing of unwanted items. - Green Business Award: The City will launch its ICI Waste Reduction Program during WRW 2006, and the program will run year-round. The Program launch and subsequent award presentations/announcements will be included as part of WRW. - Pumpkin Composting (after Halloween)
Choices and Challenges Program - Powell River	Talk to students regarding limiting waste in the lunches they bring to school.
Columbia Shuswap Regional District - Salmon Arm	We will be hosting recycling fairs in the following communities where we will accept, e-waste, houshold hazardous waste, numbered plastics and more. - Golden and Sicamous: October 14, 10 am - 3 pm - Revelstoke and Salmon Arm: October 15, 10 am - 3 pm Free disposal of residential yard and garden material at all CSRD refuse disposal sites between October 21 and October 29. Call 1-888-248-2773 for more details.
Comox Strathcona Regional District - Courtenay	Monday October 16 to Friday October 20 Cell phone recycling returns! It's back! Recycle old cell phones and rechargeable batteries as part of the "Call2Recycle" national recycling program. Why? To keep toxic substances — like lead, nickel, metal hydride and cadmium — out of the landfills. Thursday October 19th 3pm – 6pm Public Event: Do You Use "The Power of R"? Join "Power of R" educator Gayle Bates to: - Learn what goes into a garbage pie - Find out if your family has the "Power of R" (to Rethink, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) - Find out how the landfill really works! - Turn trash into treasure with recycling crafts! Friday October 20th 1pm–4pm Sample SkyRocket. You've heard about SkyRocket, the soil amendment made from wood chips and biosolids. Now try it! Bring shovels and gloves to the Comox Strathcona Regional District Compost Education Centres in Courtenay (Headquarters Road across from Vanier) or in Campbell River at 228 S Dogwood.
Coquitlam, City of	The city will be setting up a display at City Hall promoting Waste Reduction Week. We will be giving away three composters in a draw to residents who fill out and mail in our Waste Reduction Week Pledge form. Shortly after Waste Reduction Week we will be conducting a waste audit of the City facilities.
Derek Trudeau - Vancouver	I hope to get a compost!
Education Centre - Chilliwack	Publicize to schools, their website, and our community (posters and local newspaper) the amount of recyclable materials we collect weekly from each school in our school district (1 small school bus full / week!)
Esquimalt Secondary - Victoria	We are hoping to have a weigh-in once during the week, as well as having many awareness-raising posters around the school, particularly above garbage cans and sinks. We may have a guest speaker in to talk about composting cooked foods and paper towels. Any other plans have yet to be confirmed!
Fort Nelson, Town of	The Town of Fort Nelson and Northern Rockies Regional District has proclaimed October 16-22, 2006 as Waste Reduction Week.
Gibsons Recycling Depot - Gibsons	Displays and information about community re-use, reduce and recycling options. www.gibsonsdisposal.com
Houston Recycling Committee - Houston	Educational activities in the community.
Island Ink-Jet Systems Inc. - Courtenay	We would like to encourage Canadians to reduce landfill waste by extending the life of their inkjet printer cartridges. Island Ink-Jet professionally refills inkjet cartridges with cartridge specific inks saving customers up to 60% on the cost of new replacements. With proper cartridge care, a cartridge can often be refilled more than once, maximizing its use before it is recycled. www.islandinkjet.com
James Geisinger - Langley	The Beavers will clean up Nickomekl Flood Plain and have recycle hikes and a recycle theme meeting.
Joy Gallop - Maple Ridge	Recycling Depot Tours Display at Municipal Hall.
Kamloops, City of	The City of Kamloops will be hosting a "resident appreciation day" on October 21st as a part of Waste Reduction Week. City staff and councillors will visit all of the green waste and recycling depots to say thanks to the public for their participation in the programs. We'll be giving coffee to those who bring their own reusable mugs and donuts too.
Langley, Township of	The Township of Langley will host the following events during Waste Reduction Week: Household Hazardous Waste drop-off Yorkson Creek Watershed Stewardship Committee community cleanup Workshops on composting and waste reduction Demonstration garden tours and workshops Teacher's workshop on worm composting. For additional information please call 604-532-7300 or refer to our web site at www.tol.bc.ca
Lindsay Park Elementary - Kimberley	Starting week for our on going Litterless Lunch Program 5 W's for waste reduction.
Maple Bay Elementary - Duncan	We will be planning WRW activities with students in September. We currently recycle paper and beverage containers, and we send our compost home with a staff member as chicken feed.
Marissa Balahura - Prince George	We have many ideas for WRW that will be planned in the oncoming weeks.
North Okanagan, Regional District of	During Waste Reduction Week in Canada, we will be hosting a Household Hazardous Waste Round Up and an E-waste Round Up for North Okanagan residents. Both events will be on Saturday, October 21. The Vernon event will be at the Okanagan College parking lot from 9am until 3pm. The Lumby and Enderby events will be from 9am until 12pm at their respective community Fire Halls. North Okanagan residents are invited to bring their household hazardous wastes and their electronic wastes to these events for proper disposal and/or recycling. Additionally, the Regional District of North Okanagan offers free residential yard waste drop off at all area Recycling and Disposal Facilities from October 15 until November 30.
Port Guichon Elementary - Delta	We recycle paper and drink containers.
Port Moody, City of	Setting up a display area in City Hall. The City of Port Moody has proclaimed Waste Reduction Week.
Raft River Elementary - Clearwater	At our school of just over 200 students K-7 we recycle drink containers and recycle paper (white and coloured). We are presently working towards becoming an Emerald School as we record all environmental projects that we do and try to get 250 per class.
R.E.A.P.S. - Prince George	R.E.A.P.S. is encouraging all the classes in School District 57 to reduce solid waste by participating in REAPS Annual School District 57 WASTE REDUCTION CHALLENGE. The Challenge will be held during the week of October 16 - 22. The classroom that produces the least amount of waste for the week will receive $100! www.reaps.org
Reid's Auto Wrecking Ltd. - Burnaby	Vehicles are the number one recyled products in North America. The reuse of auto parts saves our nation's raw materials, energy, landfill space, and the resulting effluents that would otherwise be used in the manufacturing of new parts. During Waste Reduction Week Reid's Auto Wrecking will be offering $5.00 off the purchase of a used auto part.
Richmond, City of	The City of Richmond is sponsoring a fun and educational "Rethink" production for local elementary schools that help to encourage waste reduction and teach the benefits and proper methods of recycling.
Sentinel Secondary - West Vancouver	Our school has a bottle and paper recycling program and we have been recycling cell phones for the last two years. In the future, we would like to reduce energy and water consumption in the school and promote the 3 Rs to our entire student population.
Surrey, City of	Waste Reduction Week launch event being held on October 15 in a busy shopping centre to provide residents with waste reduction information to plan activities for the waste reduction week. Grade 7 School Waste/Litter Challenge and Educational Presentations: This is a new program for 2006 where Grade 7 students in participating schools will be provided with a challenge to collect the most litter from a local park/greenspace. The winning school will will several fabulous prizes! After each litter pick-up session is completed, an educational presentation will be provided to the students on the importance of waste reduction practices. Waste Reduction Eduction Contest: within the local recreation centres a week-long contest will be held which will emphasize the importance of waste reduction practices. Daily prizes will be awarded in each centre and grand prizes awarded throughout Surrey at the end of the week. Visit Surrey's webpage www.surrey.ca at the beginning of October for more information.
Surrey Muslim School - New Westminster	There is currently no recycling in our school. The students want to start to implement recycling boxes throughout the school, start a juice box recycling program, and a composting bin for our school's garden. To start the WRW off, my students are putting together an assembly to increase the students' knowledge and excitement about recycling.
WasteNOT - Nanaimo	WasteNOT is an organization whose mission is to convert waste materials into useable resources through the advancement and implementation of innovative technologies. The first initiative that WasteNOT is undertaking is to bring a state-of-the art recycling plant that recycles disposable diaper products for children and a range of incontinence products for adults (known as personal hygiene products or PHPs) to southern Vancouver Island in 2007. These products result in over 7,000 tonnes of PHP waste going to landfills on southern Vancouver Island each year and over 26,000 tonnes of this waste being landfilled in the Greater Vancouver Regional District each year. WasteNOT's goal is to divert as much of this waste stream from landfills in B.C. as possible and to extract the plastic, wood fibre and compostable constituents from PHP waste for use in new products. The patented technology was developed in Canada by a company called Knowaste. The recycling plant will be the first of its kind in western North America and the fourth world-wide. WasteNOT is committed to ensuring that the development and operation of the plant and all of the associated products and services are conducted with environmental sustainability in mind. WasteNOT invites you to learn more by visiting our website at www.wastenotvi.ca
Winchelsea Elementary - Parksville	- Classroom collection of food scraps for the chicken bucket which feeds farm animals. - School Recycling Program for all paper products. - School Recycling Collection of juiceboxes, cans, plastic bottles which go to the Bottle Depot. - Classroom recycling clean soft plastics and rigid plastics from daily lunches.
Wishing Well Place Elementary - Penticton	Practicing the three R's, reduce, recyle, reuse; challenging ourselves to have less waste than the last month.

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

ABC Recycling Ltd. - Burnaby Allison Richardson - Vancouver Anmore, Village of Central Saanich, The Corporation of the District of Colwood, City of Coralee Terry - Chilliwack Cranbrook, City of CRD Environmental Services - Victoria Creston, Town of Indera Manhas - Chemainus Kaslo, Village of Kelowna, City of Lori Carifelle - Quesnel Marna McMillan - Surrey Megan Walsh - Fernie Nanaimo, City of North Okanagan-Shuswap School District #83 - Salmon Arm North Vancouver, City of Okanagan-Similkameen, Regional District of - Penticton Parksville, City of Port Alberini, City of Prince George, City of Princeton, Town of Quamichan Middle School - Duncan Queen Elizabeth Community School - New Westminster Sarah Valentine - Whistler School District 6 - Invermere School District 19 - Revelstoke School District 20 Kootenay-Columbia - Trail School District 22 - Vernon School District 27 - Williams Lake School District 28 - Quesnel School District 35 - Langley School District 36 - Surrey School District 38 - Richmond School District 42 - Maple Ridge School District 43 - Coquitlam School District 45 - West Vancouver School District 47 - Powell River School District 48 - Squamish School District 49 Central Coast - Hagensborg Sidney, Town of Tracey Weldon - Vancouver Trail, City of Transport Canada - Vancouver Tzeng Lin - West Vancouver Vancouver School Board - Vancouver Victoria, City of West Vancouver Secondary - Vancouver Whistler, Resort Municipality of White Rock, The Corporation of the City of Williams Lake, The City of York House School - Vancouver

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Alberta

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
A.B. Daley Elementary - Nanton	The Grade 5 students and our ECO-KIDS crew are ready to challenge the community! From idea to design, production to distributuion, and purchase to "disposal", just where does all that STUFF come from? What resources do we use and where does the "leftover" STUFF go? If we are to be sustainable we need to practice BALANCE, HAVE A LONG-TERM VIEW, and DEVELOP INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLANS. We will educate, promote, and practice reducing our ecological footprint.
Alberta Environment	Alberta Environment staff across the province support and participate in public WRW events. In addition, each regional office brings a team together to decide on how to participate in WRW at their office. The line-up for this year's staff events is creative and ambitious! A sampling includes: reuse fairs; waste-free pot-lucks; auditing managers' waste bins and guessing who the bin belongs to; setting up additional recycling stations; contacting "junk faxers" and asking to be removed from their list; "Put a Cap on Cups" campaign to get caught and rewarded for using a reusable mug; presentations; e-mail trivia contests; sewing bee to create staff lunch bags; "4R Spotting" - rewarding those who practice the 4Rs; AB Environment staff always go the extra mile to celebrate such week-long events, and this year is certainly no exception.
Aquatera Utilities/City of Grande Prairie	Aquatera Utilities, Recycle Plus, Weyerhaeuser, Alberta Environment and The City of Grande Prairie are joining forces and planning activities and events associated with National Waste Reduction Week. This is the 5th year that the committee has hosted a community event. The Community Event will feature a celebrity environmental game show, vermi worm display, art table, guessing games and an environmental fish pond game! We have involved the local community in National Waste Reduction Week by having children from a local school design, produce and announce radio public service advertisements on Big Country XX and SunFm. Local students have created artwork with a waste reduction theme. Aquatera is also 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 October 16th - 20th. The resident will win a prize and have their picture published in the Daily Herald Tribune as well as Aquatera's utility bill inserts.
Baby Oh My - St Albert	An online children's boutique that promotes cloth diapering, eco-friendly solutions for parents. Packaging materials used to ship orders are limited are 100% biodegradeable and recyclable. www.babyohmy.com
Beaumont, Town of	Beaumont has just begun a blue bag recycling project this year. We kicked off the project barely two months ago by providing a start-up kit for each of our households. The kit included four blue bags, four clear bags for grass clippings, an information sheet from our Contractor, as well as a Message from the Mayor. We placed a large color ad in our local paper a couple weeks ago to remind people what is and what isn't acceptable for recycling. This month, we also sent out a sheet with our utility bills, reminding people of the importance of recycling; and, urging them to 'get with the program'. We also suggested 'grasscycling' and provided reasons to begin that practise.
Bottle Cap Lure Company	Recycling metal and plastic bottle caps from bars, pubs and restaurants. Inviting anyone to recycle their bottle during waste reduction week. See last year's participants Hooked On Recycling at www.bottlecaplure.com
Canmore, Town of	Litterless Day Event - Employees at all town faciities had their waste containers replaced with a communal/floor container. The staff area that generated the least amount of waste/capita was rewarded with a free lunch (delivered/served with recyclable packaging and organic ingredients).
Canyon Elementary - Pincher Creek	The Grade 4's have set up a vermicomposter in our class to handle our food waste. We are also touring our local landfill and Recycling Depot to learn where our waste goes. The class is going to sponsor a contest to see which classroom in the school can have the least waste over a week. They also plan to organize the Power Police, which involves students going around a giving classrooms tickets if they leave on lights, computers, etc.
Clean Calgary Association - Calgary	Clean Calgary Association is an environmental non-profit organization, that empowers Calgarians to create healthy homes and communities by providing environmental education, products and services. Clean Calgary Association is mandated to striving for zero waste and protecting our waste quantity and quality. The Calgary Materials Exchange (CMEX) program helps companies to reduce, reuse and recycle operational waste. By facilitating the exchange of material from one company to another, keeps it out of Calgary landfills. Oct 19th from 9am - 1pm, Clean Calgary Association will have a booth at the corner of Barlow Trail and 61 Ave SW (in the Tim Horton's plaza), to promote the organization and programs. Also to encourage anyone, anywhere they work to examine their waste streams and decrease it. The CMEX staff can assist companies to identify recycables and implement a program at thier company, whether it is a manufacturer, distribution, service, office, construction, anything. Contact us to get your company started. www.cmex.ca
Cold Lake, City of	The City of Cold Lake is a growing community of approximately 12,000 people. City Council set a goal to divert 50% waste from landfill in 2004. In response to that, the City has developed a comprehensive waste diversion plan: We currently offer a drop off depot for recyclables that is used by both the residential and commercial sector. In late September 2006 the City will be initiating curbside collection of recycling and organics for residential units up to 4 units. A limit of three bags of refuse will be imposed per week. Additional bags will require bag tags for a fee. We are in the process of developing a waste diversion program for the industrial, commercial and institutional sector. Toxic Round Ups are held once a year to collect and divert hazardous waste materials from our landfill. To encourage composting, the City implemented a backyard composter incentive program offering a coupon valued at $10.00 off the purchase of a backyard composter from local retailers during the month of May. Education has also been recognized as an important aspect of the waste diversion program. A large part of our program includes educating residents about the benefits of recycling and composting and raising awareness about proper waste management. The City of Cold Lake is committed to ensuring an effective and sustainable waste management system is in place to ensure the health and safety of our community and environment. City of Cold Lake
Dan and Elaine Gavigan - Fort Saskatchewan	We plan to have a professional home energy audit done as well as installation of a new furnace and hot water tank.
East Peace Regional Landfill Authority - Peace River	We support the Peace Citizens' Recyling Centre for recycling of cardboard and other waste products.
Ecole Desrochers - Jasper	We will be sorting garbage within our school to see who has the least amount of waste in their class.
Elizabeth Rummel Elementary Canmore	We run a paper recycling program at the school.
Grimshaw, Town of	Encouraging residents to use the recycling system in town. Advertising in local paper and putting a notice in our newsletter.
Heather Peterson - Leduc	Beverage container and milk carton recycling, mixed paper recycling, worm bin composting.
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Jason Bird - Standoff	Kick-off recycle programs on the Blood Tribe, expand to include schools and businesses.
J. H. Picard Elementary - Edmonton	We will be creating a garbage chart. All week we are going to keep our garbage in the class and separate it into categories (glass, metal, plastic, paper...). At the end of Waste Reduction Week, we will look at all the garbage we could be recycling instead of sending it to the landfill and puting that information in a chart.
Kathyrn Elementary - Kathyrn	We have a recycling program at our school. We take empty bottles and juice boxes to the depot. We also recycle paper and cardboard. We started a sharing table to help stop people from throwing out good food.
K.J. Cameron Service Industries Ltd. - Pincher Creek	Participating in Alberta Bottle Depots' Community Champions Program. As well as being a bottle depot, we collect used oil, filters and plastic jugs. We are a recycling center for tin cans, all glass, plastic milk jugs, plastic twine, plastic bags, all types of plastic (ie. margarine tubs, tide bottles, etc.), paper & newspaper, and cardboard.
Leo Nickerson Elementary - St. Albert	We plan to collect all of our garbage during waste reduction week and sort it ourselves. We currently have a vermicompost in our classroom as well.
Lethbridge, City of	Last year we conducted a waste audit in City Hall. This year we are asking employees how they have reduced their waste throughout the year in regards to the recommendations they received during the audit. We are also asking employees to submit goals on how they will further reduce waste in the upcoming year. We will be implementing educational projects throughout the year focusing on recycling, composting and reducing consumption to support the goals of employees.
Lilian Schick Elementary - Bon Accord	No garbage day one day this week, the class with the least amount by weight wins. We just started the ABCRC contest and are promoting it this week.
Martina Ruston-Carter - Vermilion	We make sure to reuse all that we can, and recycle what we cannot. As well, I try to buy in bulk so that there is less waste in packaging.
Milk Container Recycling - Calgary	The Alberta Dairy Council and the City of Calgary are kicking off a pilot program to determine if a municipal recycling bin disguised as a Holstein cow (white with black spots) will motivate Calgarians to recycle more milk jugs and cartons. The City will be tracking the volume of milk jugs and cartons people recycle in the 'moo-bin' compared to other milk container recycling bins in other parts of the city. The bins will be located at the Market Mall and Renfrew recycling depots. Kick-off will take place on Thursday, 10am at Market Mall (NE corner of parking lot). www.milkcontainerrecycling.com
Niton Central Elementary - Niton Junction	On June 1, 2006 Niton Central School officially became a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) school. The students and staff follow the peace building ideals set out by the UN. One of the major themes is Environmental Concerns Niton Central School participates in Seeds Foundation Jade Level, Water Challenge, Alberta Recycling Excellence Award, Cell Phone Collection Program, garage sales, Pitch-in Canada, Recycling Depot tours, Alberta Recycling display, Alberta Lands and Forest Department display and presentation, bottle and paper recycling program in each class, Composting and Recycling presentations from Edson Recycling Depot, Inside Education talks, Energy in Action tree planting, Helping Our Precious Earth (H.O.P.E.) Environmental Club and much more.
Northern Sunrise County - Peace River	Support the Peace Citizens' Recycling Centre in recyling of cardboard and other waste streams.
Norwood Elementary - Wetaskiwin	Every classroom has a blue box to collect waste paper for recycling. Students will put the paper in a centralized blue box at the end of the day. Tetra boxes and pop cans are collected to return to the bottle depot as part of fundraising for school field trips.
Pat St. Arnaud - Edmonton	Our team ran 2 bottle recycling days. We collected bottles from over 10 communities in Edmonton and surrounding area. We plan on collecting bottles at another 10 communities over the next 2-3 months.
Recycle-Logic Inc. - Red Deer	Recycle your old Electronics at Calgary’s only "Drive-Through" Recycling Depot. Televisions, Computers, Monitors, Printers and ANY other Electronics for Recycling at NO charge. at Currie Barracks: (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). Now open 7 days a week 10 AM - 5 PM convenient "Drive-Through" Service. www.recycle-logic.com for more info or call 266-1012. Please bring a non-perishable food item for: Calgary Interfaith Food Bank.
Red Deer County	Our office operations has a recycle program for wastes produced in the office that can be recycled. The County has opened up two new Recycling Depots for County residents with more locations to be announced in the future. Red Deer County is a delivery agent for the Environmental Farm Plan which includes a component on educating land owners on effectively dealing with wastes produced on the farm.
Rundle Elementary - Edmonton	Our Grade 4 Recycling Club members will make presentations in other classrooms encouraging all the students at our school to reduce the amount of paper the class uses each week, to tell them about vericomposting, and a contest to see which can produce the least amount of waste during Recycling Week.
Shelley Schellenberg - Darwell	My special needs students are busy reducing waste through recycling each day. For 30-40 minutes each day they collect, sort and organize all the recyclable containers in our 699 student population High School. They take great pride in their job of recycling and they are making a difference with the reduction of pop can containers waste through recycling.
South Central High School - Oyen	Printing all exams two-sided. We have recycling bins set up for all paper products. Bins are set out for all drink containers. Posters and newsletters are going out to promote this campaign.
St. Albert, City of	The City of St. Albert is incorporating a one-day electronic recycling roundup event with WRW. In addition, the local paper will feature tips, facts and a short editorial on waste reduction in the City. Information pamphlets will also be given out at the electronic roundup event on the City's recycling programs.
St. Michael Elementary - Calgary	The grade four students are organizing the school-wide recycling program, and plan on heavily promoting recycling throughout this week: - Monday, October 16th: Garbage-less lunch day! Students are encouraged to bring lunches free of garbage! - Tuesday, October 17th: School-yard clean-up! During lunch, students will collect all the waste in the schoolyard, and recycle any possible items. - Wednesday, October 18th: Walk, don't ride! Students are encouraged to walk to school instead of driving (if they live close enough to do so). - Thursday, October 19th: Juice box collections! Grade four students will be in charge of collecting the school's juice box/water bottle containers for recycling. - Friday, October 20th: Paper recycling! The Recycling Monitors (i.e grade 4s) will come around to each class and collect the week's recyclable paper! Thus they will commence the year's recycling program, by collecting every classes' paper at the end of each week!
Victory Christian School - Edmonton	We have bottle recycling and paper recycling.
Wainwright Elementary - Wainwright	Our class has a container of red wigglers for leftover lunch compost. We recycle cans, bottles and milk containers and we are trying to set up a school-wide paper recycling program. The students made board games out of recyclable materials. This week we are going on a field trip to the local recycling depot.
Weyerhaeuser Canada - Grande Prairie	Onsite dispays, daily emails to all employees and contractors, quiz or crossword, prizes, craft table for chidren, and other promotions at a local mall, visit to school. All of these activities will promote waste reduction.
Willow Creek Composite High School - Claresholm	Our school has organised a pop can recycling program. We will be promoting pop can recycling throughout the week and all year round. All money raised goes to special activities and scholarships for the students.

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

Albian Sands Energy Inc. - Fort McMurray Darwell Elementary - Darwell Fort McMurray Christian Elementary - Fort McMurray Holly Cependa - Vegreville Leduc County - Nisku Lynne Joly-Davis - Ardrossan Meadowlark Elementary - Edmonton Menisa Elementary - Edmonton St. Clement Elementary - Grande Prairie Sweet Grass Elementary - Edmonton Yellowhead Koinonia Christian School - Edson

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Saskatchewan

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com

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

Cathy Facette - Val Marie

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Manitoba

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Annie Marie Padorie - Winnipeg	Annie Marie Padorie is a cloth diaper company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We sell our own AMP diapers line of easy-to-use cloth diapers. We are always happy to answer any questions about cloth diapers. www.ampdiapers.com
Green Valley School - Grunthal	We will be running more of an awareness campaign using posters and announcements. A daily challenge will be made over the announcements emphasizing reducing lunch waste.
Industry Canada - Winnipeg	Ongoing waste reduction initiatives: Recycling of all paper products, batteries, tins, plastic, printer cartridges. Buying recycled paper. Promoting waste reduction activities.
Island Ink-Jet - Winnipeg	We would like to encourage Manitobans to reduce landfill waste by extending the life of their inkjet printer cartridges. Island Ink-Jet professionally refills inkjet cartridges with cartridge specific inks saving customers up to 60% on the cost of new replacements. With proper cartridge care, a cartridge can often be refilled more than once, maximizing its use before it is recycled. By refilling, our customers not only reduce landfill but also experience savings of up to 60% on their printing consumables. www.islandinkjet.com
It's Our World Recycling - Winnipeg	It's Our World Recycling is one of Winnipeg's leading collectors of empty inkjet and laser toner cartridges for recycling. We assist all size businesses, non-profit and volunteer organizations in completing the recycling chain and preserving the environment. At the same time, we provide a rebate for all eligible cartridges which assists in generating funds for businesses, programs or charities. Please contact It's Our World Recyling for assistance in "Helping Our Earth Stay Healthy". www.iowr.ca
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Jacinthe Blab - Winnipeg	Making large orders (Mary Kay Cosmetics) to reduce/eliminate packaging, create a "soft" filling system, use full-sized product as samples in order to reduce single-use disposable testers (where this is hygenically possible), continue to recycle all recyclable materials.
John Pritchard Elementary - Winnipeg	We are promoting waste reduction through reuse, and encouraging garbage free lunch. We have been recycling paper only. We are beginning to recycle plastic, metal and glass, and beginning composting.
L. Grieves - Winnipeg	Ongoing waste reduction initiatives: composting, recycling, buying previously owned goods, use of cloth bags/backpacks instead of plastic, use of public transport or walking/cycling, vegetarian, low-dairy diet. Planned activities: increased use of tupperware/travelware instead of paper/plastic disposables, encouraging the use of recycling throughout my workplace, buying products locally whenever possible, and refraining from buying goods with excessive packaging.
Seven Oaks General Hospital - Winnipeg	The Seven Oaks General Hospital is about to roll out its Solid Waste Reduction Program. Our Kick Off will begin with "Earth Day Celebration Week" from April 24 to April 28, 2006. We'll help to increase our staff members' awareness about ecological sustainability with posters, games, and prizes. The week of May 1 to May 5, 2006 we'll involve staff members with a Clothing Drive, with proceeds going to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Winnipeg. We have implemented two new policies; Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and Mercury Free Purchasing. Our facility will implement a comprehensive Recycling Program to be launched this June 2006. We plan to recycle cardboard, paper, aluminum and plastic! During the months of September and October we will continue to communicate our efforts with staff and continue our focus on the three R's - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle!
Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation - Shortdale	Keep the community informed by way of workshops on land values and our consumer effect on the environment. TTR Environmental Management Framework and Plan.
University of Manitoba: SESE Students - Winnipeg	Example of an Waste Reduction and Environmental Activity: Partnering with UMSU and the Administration to do a Campus Wide Clean-up. http://umanitoba.ca/student/groups/SESES/

Thank you to the following friends in Manitoba who have registered for this year:

Crystal Ballard - Churchill Eriksdale, Regional Municipality of Goulter Elementary - Virden

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Ontario

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Ajax, Town of	The Town of Ajax has challenged other area municipalities in the Region of Durham to a "waste reduction" competition. We are hosting a "Trash to Treasure" event for residents to drop off unwanted household items and perhaps pickup something that they may need or want from the items dropped off by other residents. We have tentatively scheduled an E-waste collection for recycling of unwanted electronic items. We are setting up displays throughout the Town of Ajax.
Akbar Amarshi - Scarborough	Study of effect of standardizing packaging of consumer products which can impact the reduction of waste and other chain reactions for better results.
Allandale Heights School - Barrie	We have a green team at our school. They are responsible for all recycling activities including the compost.
A.N. Myer School - Niagara Falls	**UPDATE** Cleaning up garbage on our school grounds and also in the nearby community. Our dates were either Oct 19 or 20, but we were rained out both days. We are now set to go again on Oct 25 (rain date of Oct 26) - recycling every week - community garbage clean-up
Argyle Elementary - Port Loring	We began our school recycling by focusing on one item - plastic water bottles and pop bottles. Our school president decided to make it a contest among the classes which encouraged children to not only recycle those at school but to bring them from home as well. We started two weeks ago and to date we have collected two jumbo garbage bags full. They will be transported by one of our teachers to the nearest recycling depot which is in North Bay. Further planned activites are to add aluminum cans to our collection and have a garbageless lunch contest challenge among the classes.
Armadale Elementary - Markham	My Grade 7 Green Team is responsible for our school's recycling. We have placed recycling bins in all areas of the school and students are responsible twice a week to take the bins to the recycling school bin outdoors and return the classroom bins. I use this as a leadership tool and part of my geography program while showing how we value our earth.
Barrie, City of	1."One Less Plastic Bag" Canvas Bag Giveaway: City of Barrie waste reduction staff will have a display set-up at a local Zehrs Market store where they will give-away 1 (one) City of Barrie Canvas Bag to each family that enters the store and will explain that the "One Less Plastic Bag" Canvas Bag Giveaway is an initiative to encourage the community to use re-usable bags such as canvas bags when they do their shopping, and every time a canvas bag is used one less plastic bag will be introduced into the environment. City staff will also be there to promote the many other initiatives that residents can participate in to reduce their waste on an ongoing basis. This will be the third annual Canvas Bag Giveaway. 2. Waste Reduction Week School Art Contest: City of Barrie will launch an art contest within the Barrie district schools. Students will be invited to create a poster relating to a pre-selected waste reduction theme. Up to seven posters will be selected and each will be enlarged onto a 4 foot by 8 foot mural and will be affixed to the side of a City of Barrie Curbside Recycling Collection Truck. 3. Waste Reduction Staff will create two displays (one at City Hall and one at the Public Library) which will showcase Waste Reduction Week 2006, and promote what the public can do to participate in waste reduction week and become more active in waste reduction initiatives.
Bath Elementary - Bath	Article in October newsletter re: waste reduction and food packaging, plus how to reduce garbage.
Bawating Elem. School -Sault Ste Marie	Playground clean-up, letter writing campaign to MPP regarding one-way pop containers, garbage-free lunch day, nature trail appreciation.
Bear Creek Secondary - Barrie	We run a green team recycling program that recycles all pop bottles, cans and paper. We also run Earth Week activities and some classes also do projects in the school.
Bedford Park Junior School - Toronto	Electronic waste drive, and possibly a school-wide secret garbage audit.
Beeton Sunshine Childcare - Beeton	We are going to make posters of how we can do our part for the environment. I am also going to encourage our school-age children to make bags to hand out to people to reuse. The rest of the ideas will be up to the class.
Britannia Elementary - Mississauga	Battery Recycling Program
CAMI Automotive Inc. - Ingersoll	CAMI is planning to set up information booths and promote environmental awareness around the plant.
Carruthers Creek Elementary - Ajax	Our school presently has a Recycling Team and a Composting Team who remove these items from our classrooms daily. Members of our Environmental Club will make daily announcements to the school, reporting facts and other interesting information to encourage waste reduction.
Cathy's Crawly Composters - Bradford	Vermicomposting presentation at the Credit Forks Garden Club October 17th, 2006 10 am - noon Through inspirational stories and humour Cathy Nesbitt of Cathy's Crawly Composters demonstrates the benefits of vermicomposting.
Christopher Beninger - Ottawa	- Build a vermi-composter to reduce my organic waste. - Recycle my recyclables
C.R. Judd Elementary - Capreol	The grade 1 / 2 students will be initiating a reduce / reuse program within the school as well as implementing an ongoing tally sheet compiling data on the amount of waste products and the conservation completed by the whole school community throughout the year.
Crossing All Bridges Learning Centre - Brantford	I want to make the women and men of our Day Program more aware of the necessity of recycling. We will encourage the 3 Rs.
Dana Corporation - Oakville	During Waste Reduction Week, the Environmental Committee will be communicating Waste Reduction Projects. We will also hold an internal Litterless Lunch BBQ on Friday. Ongoing Waste Reduction Initiatives for 2006: - paper reduction - modify chiller temperature - use re-wash towels rather than paper towels in washroom - energy reduction projects ("shut it off when not in use", lighting optimization, air compressor optimization)
Deserono Elementary - Deserono	- School recycling program - Composting organic material - Use both sides of paper before recycling - Litterless lunches
Donview Middle School - North York	Classroom recycling program, photocopy paper re-use program, encouragement of litterless lunches.
Duke of Connaught School - Toronto	We will continue and expand our school-wide weekly recycling program, and continue our "greening" initiatives (planting and picking up others' waste). We are planning and working towards other activities which may include: litterless lunches and snacks, walk to school day (as opposed to parents driving, etc.) We're also looking for other ideas for activities and would welcome suggestions. Thanks.
Earth Keeper - Morson	Community Clean-Up Day to include youth from our Pegamigaabo School, Elders, staff and community members encouraged to take part in the clean-up of garbage and other waste. Informational pamphlets will be distributed. After the clean-up a Barbecue/Weiner roast and games will be held.
École d'immersion Princess Anne - London	Nous continuons avec notre club de l'environnement cette année. On a un programme de recyclage pour toute l'école depuis quelques années maintenant et on espère avoir des activités spécifiques et spéciales toute l'année longue.
Eco Superior - Thunder Bay	-Planned Waste Reduction Activities: WRW Launch Recycling Tour, Pumpkin Compost, Collection School Programs such as battery collections (prize: field trip to landfill site and recycling depot, with special presentations made by recycling facility managers), Get Caught Recycling contest Media Campaign: Promoting what we are doing for WRW, as well as daily/weekly tips on what people can do with their waste. Acknowledging schools that recycle - spotlights on certain schools/activities. Retail program: shelf cards to remind consumers how to 'shop smart', stickers on paint cans at paint stores - reminding people of how to properly dispose of paint/paint waste. Ongoing Waste Reduction initiatives: Spring Up to Clean Up Cooperation with Litter-Free Thunder Bay providing supplies to groups who clean up throughout the year. Elementary and High School presentations Media Campaigns (i.e. "If you are not recycling, you are throwing it all away!") *For more information/details, please see our website: www.ecosuperior.org
Electro-Motive Canada Co. - London	Electro-Motive Canada Co. has an active waste diversion program for mixed paper; pop cans, 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; cafeteria grease; wood pallets, scrap wood and wooden spools; and, empty drums and containers. Some of the activities planned for WRW include celebrating recycling practices by giving company hats to those individuals who practice recycling on the plant floor; having theme days for the purpose of educating employees on EMC's waste diversion program including source separating initiatives; and general waste diversion awareness communication pieces displayed in the cafeteria. All activities will be coordinated by the EMC GREEN Team.
Envirofriendly Bags - Brampton	Our planned activities include causing awareness in consumers to reduce plastic waste by using alternatives to plastic bags. Our company is launching a reusable grocery bag.
Fairmont Chateau Laurier - Ottawa	Efforts to divert waste from landfills include composting and recycling: -Composting in all kitchens and in-room dining department. -Recycling bins in all guests rooms and offices throughout hotel. -Book exchange program with colleagues to reduce recycling materials and waste if colleagues were planning to throw out books. This initiative is called "Take a Book Leave a Book". WRW activity idea, to distribute/post recipes that can be made with leftovers. Laminating signs that are often reprinted to post on different dates, such as "out of order" signs, "wet paint" or composting directions etc... There are two other major projects pending approval, which we will share with you at a later date.
Farideh Towhidi-Fallahi - Ottawa	Reusing food packaging like glass jars, plastic containers, bottles and plastic shopping bags. Buying things in bulk. Reusable shopping bags. Posting what I won't use on the ottawa freecycle yahoo group so someone else will use them instead of sending them to the garbage.
Frederick Campbell Elementary - Base Borden	Recycling in each class room, posters in the halls, teaching the kids what can and can not be recycled: can they find things that can be reused? and ways that we can reduce garbage.
Frenchman's Bay Elementary - Pickering	Today I started an environmental committee which includes 3 students from each class. Together, we are going to plan and implement activites involving the 3 Rs and environmental conservation. Our first step is educating the school population about recycling in the school.
General Motors of Canada - 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.
Gertrude Colpus Elementary - Oshawa	We will start the week during the assembly introducing the theme "Waste Reduction Week". We will encourage all students to bring a litterless lunch. We will start a lights out program. Share ideas though a bulletin board and Waste Reduction binder. Also a resource binder will be set up so that all teachers will have access to activies that revolves around waste reduction. Each class will survey the classroom garbage at the end of the day to see if there are any recycled materials, and record their findings. And much more.
Gilles Trahan - Hawkesbury	Nous faisons le recyclage de canette, de bouteille de plastique, de papier et de carton. Nous allons recycler les vieux cellulaires, les piles, les cartouches d'encre d'imprimante, l'aluminium sur les emballage de gomme à mâcher, les vielles clefs, vices et écrous. Il y a deux ans je faisais du composte avec toutes les feuilles sur le terrain de l'école. Nous allons tenter de recommencer de faire du compostage avec les feuilles ainsi qu'une tentative de composter les résidus alimentaires du salon du personnelle. Mes élèves et moi voulons également introduire de la vaisselles réutilisables dans la cantine de l'école. Merci Gilles Trahan et le Club Écolo
Gloucester Non Profit Housing Corp. - Ottawa	We are a social housing provider with 271 units. We would like to participate in any way. Do you have any suggestions????
Greater Sudbury, City of	- Advertise on radio and website Freecycle.org Recycling - Donating items to non-profit organizations, composting.. - Particpating in Roots and Shoots at Science North. - Hands-on presentations with primary and secondary schools. - Introducing a Pilot Project on organic collection.
Hamilton, City of	Hamilton residents will help celebrate the first anniversary of the Mountain Community Recycling Centre (CRC) on Saturday, October 21 between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Visitors to the Mountain CRC can pick up a free pumpkin and a cup of apple cider to mark the first year of operation of this flagship facility. In celebration of national Waste Reduction Week, the City of Hamilton's Waste Management staff will be on hand with information and ideas on how residents can reduce, reuse and recycle to meet our goal of 65% diversion from landfill. Information on a new reward and recognition program will be available. And don't forget to visit Community Living Hamilton's re-use store for bargains galore! The Mountain Community Recycling Centre is the first of three recycling centres being constructed as part of the City's commitment to 65% diversion by 2008. The CRCs enable residents to drop off, free of charge, items such as electronics, tires, white goods, hazardous waste, wood, blue box recyclables, leaf and yard waste and cardboard. Hamilton Community Living operates a retail facility at the Mountain CRC that accepts and sells reusable items such as clothing, furniture and small working appliances. The Mountain Community Recycling Centre is located at 37 Kilbride Road (off Upper Ottawa Street, just south of Rymal Road) and is open 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday.
Helene Patry - Chelmsford	Seen this e-mail address at Tim Hortons and also see the new recycling bins. I think people would use them more since it's nice enough to put in your home summer and winter, and tranfer it on pick up day in the square recycling box.
I.E. Weldon School - Lindsay	- car pool to school day with a 'cram into your car' contest - our environmental group has built a recycling centre for the cafeteria
Industry Education Council - Kingston	Activities to be determined. We are a non-profit organization teaching LINC - Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada sponsored by Citizenship & Immigration Canada. Your kit would be most helpful to our classes. Thanks.
InStore Products Ltd. - Mississauga	We have recently launched a new reusable bag called Bring Your Own Bag™. BYOB is a branded, re-usable bag program designed to help the environment by reducing plastic bag use. We will continue to educate communities and retailers about our products and promote recycling awareness. For more information, please visit our website at www.bringyourbag.com
Island Ink-Jet - Kingston	Island Ink-Jet Kingston is an environmentally friendly retail store. We promote reducing landfill waste through our offered services. We offer a drop and shop on-site Ink-jet printer cartridge refill service and laser toner remanufacturing. We have just launched a new Program called G.R.I.P., Group Refill Incentive Program. For deals go to our site or stop by the store. By refilling, our customers not only reduce landfill but also experience savings of up to 60% on their printing consumables.
Island Ink-Jet - Upper Oakville	Island Ink-Jet Upper Oakville is an environmentally friendly retail store which promotes landfill reduction through our offered services. Our services include laser toner remanufacturing and ink-jet cartridge refilling. By refilling, our customers not only reduce landfill but also experience savings of up to 60% on their printing consumables. www.islandinkjet.com
i-WasteNot Systems - Mallorytown	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Jacques Whitford - Ottawa	We will be conducting a waste audit and report the findings to the staff of 100 people. We will also be providing communication pieces to the staff to encourage waste reduction.
Jennifer Hall - Kanata	Attempting to encourage reuse, reduce, and recycling in Kanata and surrounding area through "freecycling". On average Kanata Freecycle saves *50-100lbs* of useable stuff *A DAY* from the landfills. Everything that is posted is FREE! Raising awareness of WRW by referring Kanata Freecycle members to WRW's website for resources and activities, and keeping useful and useable items from landfill with a special challenge during Waste Reduction Week. Please visit Kanata Freecycle Group Or to find a group near you please visit www.freecycle.org
Kimberly Beaven - London	Recycling ink cartridges, paperless invoicing, shred and recycle paper, recycle drink & beverage containers, newspaper recycling, composting for garden at back of office.
Kraft Canada Inc. - Mississauga	Kraft Canada Inc., Mississauga Mill has an existing recycling program. Currently, we are replacing Styrofoam cups with conical paper cups. Conical paper cups are environmental friendly products and can readily be recycled with the waste paper stream. Activities are planned for the Waste Reduction Week at Mississauga Mill: 1. Waste reduction communication meetings are incorporated into annual Environmental Awareness Training on Oct. 12, 2006. 2. Michael Duffin, our Site Manager, proclaims the Waste Reduction Week at Mississauga Mill and signs the Green Policy. 3. Zero Waste Day challenge during Waste Reduction Week Oct. 16-22. Facility employees will be asked to calculate their impact to the environment based on individual's waste generation. The final results will be tabulated and posted on the Mississauga Mill's Environmental Bulletin Board.
Lindsay Simpson - Amherstburg	I do not use plastic bags for collecting my vegetables at the grocery store; I do not purchase items in packages if they are also available loose; I do not eat meat, so no bones etc. or packaging; I put ALL cardboard & paper in my blue box (including empty toilet paper & paper towel rolls, I do not use plastic baggies or buy single-sized bottled water. I would like to see cartons (milk, juice) made recycleable as well as plastic bottle caps.
Lisa Borden - Toronto	Borden Communications + Design has launched a program detailing various litterless lunch programs not just for schools but for both small and large corporations. We tailor the program to the needs of each individual or firm and supply all the tools required to be successful. We are committed to healthier living for each person, and to permanently reducing the waste...easily!
Liz Wylie - Ottawa	I will be writing an article in my community newspaper about Waste Reduction Week and the Ottawa Take It Back Program to let others know what they can do for the environment. I will continue my usual practise of composting, reducing my garbage by only buying what I need, choosing products with little or no packaging and if there is packaging I recycle whatever my municipality allows for.
Lockerby Composite School - Sudbury	We already recycle pop cans, paper, and glass and plastic bottles, but for Waste Reduction week our environmental club will start a new composting program in our school. We are going to have a garbage-free lunch day and will encourage students to reduce their waste by making posters with reused printer paper.
Lorette Caldeira - Barrie	Hello I am an E.C.E. teacher and I teach a Kindergarten class at S.E.E.D.S. Childcare in Barrie. I am just starting a recycling programme with my children and look forward to any suggestions, advice or helpful products.
Madawaska Valley, Township of - Barry's Bay	The Township of Madawaska Valley is proud of all residents who helped the municipality reach a 34.5% Waste Diversion Rate in 2005. Council has requested a cost analysis of Township-wide garbage pickup to help achieve their goal of 60% waste diversion.
McKee Elementary - Toronto	McKee P.S. is committed to ecological education and community responsibility. As an EcoSchool, we strive to be mindful of our environment through education programs, reducing our litter (litterless lunches), recycling and re-using products where we can. We have a large group of EcoKids who regularly empty recycle bins, make posters and murals, write and speak about the environment (make announcements) and help monitor our performance. We also celebrate various special days, such as 'Earth Day'.
McNab/Braeside, Township of - Arnprior	The Township has established a depot for collecting e-waste this year. This project is to find out how much e-waste is in the Township and to remove it from the landfill site.
Midland Secondary - Midland	Schoolyard clean-up, and we just started to compost schoolwide.
Minto Urban Communities - Toronto	We are having a WRW Challenge for our Toronto head office employees to see if we can reduce our waste significantly for the week. The floor that produces the least amount of garbage is eligible for a prize of either an executive parking spot for a month (carpooling encouraged) or a transit pass for a month. The winning team also gets a pizza party. We are also challenging our employees across Ontario and offering a prize to come up with a winning idea to help the company reduce waste.
Mississauga Freecycle	Mississauga Freecycle, like all Freecycle groups, connects people within a local area so that they can network and post items on our message board that they are either looking for or wanting to get rid of. Then, other members of the group can respond, and the message poster makes arrangements with their chosen respondent to pickup the item(s) in question. The idea is to foster a community of like minded people, share tips, and most importantly, keep useful items out of our landfills. www.freecycle.org
Mississippi Mills, Town of	On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 we will be holding 2 shows at the elementary schools with JunkYard Symphony preforming "Recycle Rock" they touch on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rock. We will be also having a guest speaker at the local high school come in and do a presentation on being a responsible consumer by taking into account distance from place of production to market place. We are also holding a 25% off sale of all our items for the entire week (October 16 - 22); backyard composters, kitchen composters, recycle bins (large & small). www.mississippimills.ca
Morrish Elementary - Toronto	New this year we introduced a "boomerang lunch" for those students that stay at school for lunch, whereby all recyclables, reusables and unconsumed food are returned home in student lunchbags. Our community is more capable of recycling and composting items. These efforts occur on a daily basis all school year, not just during waste reduction week. As well, we started an Environment Club. Our duties include supervising all paper, plastic and glass recycling around the school. We do a weekly weed and pickup of yard garbage as well. This group includes gardening as we are attempting to become a "greener school" within our community. We are very proud of our efforts so far this year! During Waste Reduction Week we will have daily announcements and use the materials that are being sent to us throughout the school.
NIL Private School - Toronto	- Instead of using foam cups for drinking water we asked all the students to bring their own water bottles and they bring their lunch and snacks in reusable containers to limit the plastic and paper waste. - We got a photocopy machine that has double-sided photocopying and many other options to reduce photocopy paper use. - We placed many recycle containers inside the school and in the yard for cans and juice boxes.
Oakville, Town of	Within the Town facilities: - Recycling receptacles for batteries, printer cartridges, mixed paper, cardboard, cans, tetra-paks and wine corks are available and promoted throughout the year. - In 2006, Computer's for Schools received 8 skids of computer components from Town facilities plus all retired computer components were sent for proper recycling. - Printer cartridges are refilled by manufacturer made available for reuse. - Reuseable one-sided paper is sent from Town facilities to Public Libraries for reuse. - Posted beside all copiers and printers is a reminder of the duplex printing capabilities. All purchases are made with duplex features enabled. - Staff are provided desktop recycling containers to increase convenience. - Travel mugs were sold in the staff cafeteria to limit the use of styrofoam in Town Hall. - All-in-one machines are being implemented as old machines fail to limit the energy and manufacturing costs associated with business equipment. External Initiatives: - Oakville participates in the 20-Minute Makeover annually and picks up litter in the area. - Encourages school participation through the suggestion of litterless lunches and recycling clubs. - Brings portable recycling containers to all festivals to encourage and promote sustainable behaviours.
Ottawa Crescent Elementary - Guelph	In my grade 5/6 classroom, we reuse copied paper as scrap paper to reduce waste. We recycle newspapers. The overall focus is to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as possible.
Our Lady Of Hope Elementary - Richmond Hill	We have a standard paper and fine plastic program.
Parenting By Nature - Toronto	Promoting the Art of Cloth Diapering we encourage the use of reusable cloth diapers and healthier alternatives for babies and parents alike. We teach parents how easy and FUN modern cloth diapering can be through local workshops and presentations. Retail and information at www.parentingbynature.com
Pleasant View Junior High - North York	- lights out when not in classrooms - using half the lights when possible - using natural light (windows, etc...) - reducing the number of fridges in the school - 60% waste diversion last year due to recycling awareness - encouraging less photocopies - environmental education via announcements and posters - curriculum related programming for environmental issues and waste reduction - battery and cell phone collection - recycling programs
Prince Charles Elementary - Trenton	We are trying to promote waste reduction in our school by ongoing talks with the staff and students about reducing garbage in our classrooms and increasing our recycling quantities. This seems to be working well as we see a higher amount of recycling going to the curb each week. We also have visited our local recycling plant with our earthcare team and our team really enjoyed and got a lot out of the visit. Our recycling plant (Quinte Recycling) recycles fruit drink boxes and that has helped reduce our daily garbage from the school. We also promote a "Lights Off" and "Computers Off" in the classroom which helps reduce our hydro usage. We are also promoting a "Litterless Lunch" Day and a "Walk to School" Day as often as we can.
Richland Academy - Richmond Hill	We have a school-yard naturalization program and we run an after-school environmental club. Children are involved in recycling, reducing and reusing. We promote litterless lunches and we encourage the use of resuable containers and utensils. We all feel that we have a responsibility to a part in preserving our environment.
Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School - Ridgeway	This week the Environmental Green Team is going to take a tour of the Niagara Recycling Plant. We are also promoting cell phone and ink toner cartrige recycling.
Robert Lacroix - Toronto	Clean up yards, speeches on recycling importance as community leaders.
Schreiber, Township of	The Township of Schreiber has recently been able to provide recycling resources to its citizens. During Waste Reduction Week, Council will remind citizens of the availability of recycling facilities within the Township, in the form of a press release in the local newspaper. As well, Council has proclaimed Waste Reduction Week in Schreiber.
Scugog, Township of - Port Perry	We are hosting an e-waste event where residents can deliver their electronic waste to the municipality.
Silvia Vanessa Lamb -Barrie	We recycle everyday and reuse chart and handout paper often. We will also be bringing garbageless lunches and do a yard clean up!
SNC Lavalin ProFac - Hamilton	SNC Lavalin ProFac plans to launch 3 Maximum Green recycling programs in the GTA. In addition an information bulletin on Waste Reduction in provincial government buildings and info on WRW will be distributed the week of October 16th in all major government facilities in the GTA and Southwestern Regions. In addition, Meet and Greet sessions will be held this week throughout the Southwest Region to promote environment and energy initiatives in our buildings.
Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North Dumfries	"Building Environmentally Friendly Non-Profits" Our community of Non-Profit organizations are working together to make the environment a priority in our agencies and to utilize more environmentally friendly practices at work. A toolkit is being developed that is a how-to guide for non-profits to implement environmentally friendly practices in their agency. Tools include the categories of energy efficiency, water conservation, paper reduction, recycling, transportation, meetings and conferences and how to implement these tools in your agency. Over the summer 9 agencies are acting as pilots testing the tools out and tracking their progress. The toolkit and the results of the pilots will be released to the community at a forum during waste reduction week. Our goal at that point is to get 10-20 agencies to sign up to try the toolkit.
Springfield Elementary - Mississauga	[posted Nov 2006] Sorry I missed out on Waste Reduction Week this year. Please include us for next year. We plan to have a 'Litterless Lunch' week at school during Earth Week. We are also working at better educating all classes/students about 'how' and 'what' to recycle. Thanks again, Catherine Westerberg Gr. 5 Teacher and leader of the Green Kids Club Springfield P.S.
St Augustine Elementary - Dundas	Schoolyard cleanup.
St. Clement's School - Toronto	-Litterless lunches -Tupperware containers must be used when ordering in food -Styrofoam, plastic and paper cups are banned. We use Travel mugs when ordering drinks from Second Cup, Starbucks... -Teachers are asked to return excessive packaging materials to companies -We recycle batteries, printer cartridges, cell phones and paper towels -Our school caterer uses china plates and glasses when selling food to the school
St. Daniel Elementary - Hamilton	We are an eco-school. We have a waste audit planned and education awareness activities for the students.
St. Isidore Elementary - Kanata	We are involved in the Spring and Fall Cleaning of the Capital.
St. Luke Elementary - Ottawa	Recycling Club and Turn it Off! project (lights, computers).
St. Mark Elementary - Stoney Creek	-Daily collection of fine paper -Weekly collection of plastic containers, glass bottles and cans -Weekly yard cleanup of litter
St. Paul Elementary - Toronto	Our challenge this year is to encourage as many staff and students to bring littlerless lunches as possible. Bringing an awareness to the school community about the costs of packaging - to our environment, and our health. Helping to create an understanding as to how to package a litterless lunch - No Waste! Check out 'Boomerang Litterless Lunch'.
Sydney Roberts - Embrun	I am very interested in starting my backyard composter, if I can find a place that sells them. I would like to see a much better waste program in my area like the one in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sympanac - Toronto	Sympanac promotes on its website responsible management on the uses of everyday products, that is the choices of biodegradable, earth friendly products.
Terry Fox Elementary - Barrie	Terry Fox Elementary School went waste-free at the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year. Students were able to purchase litterless lunch kits at a minimal cost of $2.00 per student. Large garbage cans were removed from all rooms, and teacher-directed garbage cans were introduced for the disposal of hygienic waste.
Terry Fox Elementary - Orleans	- We will be making posters to place in the Primary, Junior and Intermediate hallways advertising Waste Reduction Week. - Our EarthCARE teams will also go into each classroom to give a presentation to the classes, regarding acceptable recycling materials and in what coloured bin to place them. - We will also make announcements about different recycling facts and tips. - On Earth Day, the whole school goes out to the yard to clean up, and students are no longer eating snacks outside, but throwing out all wrappers, etc. before going out for recess. This is a year-long school initiative.
Thunder Bay, City of	We launch WRW at Hudson Heights Apartments where the City of Thunder Bay will highlight its new apartment recycling campaign. A full week of activities includes school presentations for elementary students along with a battery collection contest in which the winning class wins a field trip to the landfill and recycling sites. Citizens can "get caught recycling" to win a prize package, or win with waste reduction trivia contests on local radio stations. Retailers including Zellers, Canadian Tire and Home Depot will help educate the community by posting shelf card reminders and in-store announcements. Several local gas stations will surprise their customers with free blue bag recycling gifts during the week. And waste reduction efforts continue with our Great Pumpkin Compost Collection taking place after Halloween.
Toronto, City of: Parks, Forestry and Recreation	We do not have anything specific planned for that week, but our web site lists all the ongoing activities we have been doing to reduce waste in Parks, Forestry and Recreation: www.toronto.ca/parks/wastediversion
Toronto Waldorf Elementary - Thornhill	Toronto Waldorf conserves and recycles its own brown and grey water through an in-house, organic filtration system that cleans the water and puts it back into the system to be used as grey water. TWS has a whole-school composting program run by the Grade 3 class, who take the compost bucket from each room and bring to the compost pile at the organic farm in our backyard. TWS puts out a newsletter every other week and has recently moved to publishing it on the school website as a way of potentially saving 5000 sheets of paper each month. TWS uses oral learning as much as possible, particularly in the early years, which means much less emphasis on text books, paper, and materials. The list goes on... TWS has been given an award the last two years from the City of Vaughan for being the most environmental school in the municipality. We are more than happy to participate in this project!
Tosha Boerkamp - Waterford	I will hold a rummage sale where people can set up their own area to sell and buy old clothes and household items, this will promote reusing items instead of getting rid of them. I will also buy some foods in bulk and store them in containers to avoid packaging. I will also use a reusable bag whenever I shop for groceries and other items.
TRY Recycling Inc. - London	- media releases and educational pieces in the London area - serve as a resource and contact for recycling information to both media and business - on-going activities are part of our everyday business as we are both a recycling and composting facility. www.tryrecycling.com
U-Cycle Recycling Group - Brampton	U-Cycle Recycling Groups' initiative is to divert and redirect harmful, hazardous inkjet, laser and toner cartridge waste from our nations' landfills, while ensuring that all re-manufacturing processes are environmentally friendly. www.u-cycle.com
Wade Suplat - Orleans	We are a new set of groups and would love to participate here in Ottawa, I'll be searching your site for fantastic ideas.
Warnica Elementary - Barrie	- We plan to encourage students and staff to bring garbageless lunches each day. - We will also encourage Walk to School each day. - The Green Team will offer to collect composting for our composter to get classes started with the composting program. - Staff will be asked to bring home their class' milk cartons to recycle in their own recycling containers since our school board won't recycle them. - "The Energy Hog" will visit classrooms that leave their lights or computers on when not in use. - There will be daily announcements on ways we can reduce waste and help improve the environment.
Wasteco Group - Toronto	We plan to help all of our clients with their waste reduction initatives through education and awarness. www.wastecogroup.com
Wendy Fletcher - Toronto	1. Not buying packaged foods 2. Using cloth bags for groceries 3. Using brown bags for fresh produce (if I can find them)
Willow Academy - Toronto	Willow Academy has just moved to new premises and is very pleased to announce that we are now a garbage free school. The first theme of our new school year is "garbage" and all the students in the school are learning about garbage, the environment, pollution and how to take action to reduce waste and protect our environment. The kids are learning about composting, how long it takes for something to break down, how different companies package their products and what uses they can make of materials that have already been used. They are making models of machines (out of recycled materials, of course) that they have created themselves that, if real, would destroy garbage. They are learning about how to make soil richer through composting and are making beautiful art from recycled materials. They are learning folks songs about the environment such as "Big Yellow Taxi" and "What Have They Done to the Rain?" We are hoping to be able to arrange a trip to a local landfill site.
Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre - Midland	The Wye Marsh is having a Waste Reduction Day on October 21st. We'll be offering all the activities and handouts listed on the Waste Reduction Week website. We also plan to have displays from local suppliers for products to keep the heat in homes this winter, and stores that are offering bulk and environmentally friendly products. www.wyemarsh.com
York Region - Newmarket	Saturday, October 21st from 9am to 3pm York Region and the Aurora EAC will be hosting Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity at the Region's Waste Management Centre. York Residents are invited to come by and bring in their reusable goods and those that do will receive a free bag of garden mulch. Tours of the Region's Material Recovery Facility will also be offered that day.

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

Abad Bajwa - Mississauga Arthur Ford Elementary - London Bishop Strachan School - Toronto Bradford High School - Bradford Byron Woods Montessori School - London Central Manitoulin, Township of - Mindemoya Central Montessori & Private Schools - Toronto Curtis Puncher - Toronto David Mackie - Toronto Electro-Motive Canada Co. - London Formet Industries - St. Thomas General Motors of Canada - Oshawa Georgina, Town of - Keswick Georgy Thomas - Scarborough Gil McElroy - Bobcaygeon Hawkesbury, Corporation Town of Hollywood Elementary - North York John Philips - Toronto Joseph Gould Elementary - Uxbridge Lyna Kelly - Brockville Manitouwadge High School Parthiban Paramananthan - Ottawa Regent Park Elementary - Orillia Richards Landing, Township of St Joseph Riverside Montessori Pre-School - Ottawa Shakil Ahmed - Toronto Sheraton Hotel - Hamilton Val Caron Elementary - Val Caron Wanup Elementary - Sudbury Waubaushene Elementary - Waubaushene Wellington, County of - Guelph Wembley Elementary - Sudbury West Bayfield Elementary - Barrie Wexford Collegiate - Scarborough Windsor Public School - Windsor

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Quebec

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Azure Wraps - Saint-Laurent	We are a cloth diapering retailer and manufacturer. We give in-depth local cloth diapering seminars to encourage the use of cloth over disposable and help parents to realize how easy cloth diapering really is! www.azurewraps.com
Cookshire Elementary School - Cookshire	I have a vermicomposter in my class every year. This year we will have butterflies in the classroom, then in the spring we will create a butterfly garden and use the worm castings as soil booster. Janell Sale, Teacher.
École primaire Dalkeith - Anjou, Montreal	Lombricompostage Les éleves font la preparation de compost pour le jardin de l'école. Le compost est realise avec des vers rouges et des restants alimentaires de la cafétéria et le marc de café de la salle des professeur(e)s.
Island Ink-Jet Place Longueuil - Longueuil	Island Ink-Jet Place Longueuil is an environmentally friendly retail store which promotes landfill reduction through our offered services. We would like to encourage the people in Quebec to reduce landfill waste by extending the life of their inkjet printer cartridges and toner cartridges. Island Ink-Jet professionally refills inkjet cartridges with cartridge specific inks. By refilling, our customers not only reduce landfill but also experience savings of up to 60% on their printing consumables. www.islandinkjet.com
Island Ink-Jet Place Vertu - St. Laurent	Island Ink-Jet Place Vertu is an environmentally friendly retail store which promotes landfill reduction through our offered services. We would like to encourage the people in Quebec to reduce landfill waste by extending the life of their inkjet printer cartridges and toner cartridges. Island Ink-Jet professionally refills inkjet cartridges with cartridge specific inks. By refilling, our customers not only reduce landfill but also experience savings of up to 60% on their printing consumables. www.islandinkjet.com
Josée Thiboutot - Québec	Un courriel sera transmis à tous les employé(e)s afin de les aviser de la Semaine canadienne de réduction des déchets - Édition 2006. De plus, nous afficherons le poster 2006 sur le tableau d'information accessible aux visiteurs.
Kraft - Montreal	Recycling team is in place for 8 months. Recycling activities are on-going and increasing as time goes by. For the WRW we plan to post ideas to employees on how to utilize the 3 Rs at home and work.
Laval Junior High - Laval	- Collection of garbage on school grounds - Collection of leaves for future composting - Long-term goal: recycling of plastics and aluminum cans
Marie-Claude Pellerin - Québec	Je supporte la Semaine de réduction des déchets en continuant mes habitudes tel que ne pas acheter des produits sur-emballer, utiliser des sacs de coton et recycler tout ce qui peut l'être. Je vais également parler de la Semaine lors de ma chronique à la radio communautaire.
Nancy Harrison - Sherbrooke	I bring home all the recycling things that teachers clean every day (teacher's room).
Royal Vale Elementary - Montreal	We will be doing a school grounds clean-up on Thursday, October 19, 2006 from 12:30-1:30. The teachers, students, administration, and parents have been invited to participate. Éco-quartier, a local organization responsible for neighbourhood beautification, will be leading the clean-up. The H & S Beautification Committee also regularly cleans out the lost and found and gives back labelled clothing/lunch boxes to kids and donates the rest to local charities. On Saturday, October 21, 2006, a group of parents will also be coming in to clean-up the gardens and prepare them for the Spring. Our hope is to develop many more initatives throughout the year.
Solenne Cadieux - Rimouski	Notre famille produit déjà une très petite quantité de déchets non recyclables (environ un gros bac vert par 6 semaines pour 7 personnes). Nous faisons presque toujours des achats conscientisés (moins de déchets possible) et nous ne consommons pas inutilement. Je souhaite que de plus en plus de gens en fasse de même.
Susan McVety - Montreal	I currently supply worms and vermicomposting advice to Montrealers interested in composting indoors. For Waste Reduction Week, I plan to bring a worm compost bin to my office and promote the benefits of vermicomposting to my coworkers.

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

Françoise Gingras - Ste Catherine de Hatley Glenda Stevens - Maniwaki Pierre-Paul Couture - Gatineau Station Touristique Lac-Beauport Zachary Fecteau - Saint-Georges Beauce

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Newfoundland/Labrador

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Carbonear, Town of	- Sponsor Composting for citizens of community - Christmas Tree Recycling - Sponsor Hazardous Waste Pick-ups - Green Depot in community for recyclables - Sponsor leaf pick-up - Town Office recycles used paper
Corner Brook High School - Corner Brook	We will try to reduce the amount of recyclable paper that enters our regular garbage system in the school.
ERDA - Cartwright	ERDA has been involved in recycling of beverage containers for quite some time...we are now promoting composting which will help reduce the wastes going into our landfills.
Interdepartmental Recycling Committee - St. John's	The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's Interdepartmental Recycling Committee (IRC) will have a display on the Main Floor, West Block, Confederation Building which will showcase Waste Reduction Week and its 2006 theme Too Good to Waste! The committee will be promoting actions that provincial government employees and the public can take to reduce waste and become more active in waste reduction initiatives. The display will feature materials and handouts describing ways to reduce waste reduction and will feature promotional materials from businesses associated with recycling initiatives, i.e., Ever Green Recycling – Mill Lane, Waste Management and the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board. IRC is asking provincial government employees to share their ideas on how they are either reducing waste or for being waste management friendly at work and/or at home. Employees are encouraged to fill out an entry form listing their idea, suggestion or tip and drop it off in the "Suggestion Box". The entry forms and suggestion box are both located at the display. A number of prize draws will take place from the suggestion box for promotional materials that have been donated by recycling businesses in the St. John's area. Prizes range from litterless lunch bags, shopping bags to products made from recyclable plastics. As well, a $50.00 cheque will be awarded to the person who makes the most innovative suggestion/tip that reduces the amount of waste that is produced at work and/or at home towards a goal of waste-free living. IRC is also challenging all provincial government employees to a "No Garbage Lunch" and "No Plastic Bag Used" for a one-week challenge during Waste Reduction Week. IRC's ongoing waste reduction initiatives throughout the provincial government include: - Educating people about the benefits of recycling and composting and raising awareness about proper waste management. IRC is committed to ensuring an effective and sustainable waste management system is in place to ensure the health and safety of our community and environment. - Communicating our efforts with staff and continuing our focus on the three R's - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle! - The promotion and continuance of recycling. - Increased use of tupperware/travelware instead of paper/plastic disposables to create "litterless lunches". - Promoting a campaign to eliminate Styrofoam cups from the workplace. Employees are encouraged to bring their own reusable coffee mug to work. Employees who bring their 12-ounce coffee mug to the CNIB Confederation Building Cafeteria automatically get a 5 cent reduction in the cost of their coffee. Let's all make an effort to see how much styrofoam waste we can eliminate during Waste Reduction Week and the weeks after. - Employees are encouraged to ask for china cups and saucers, instead of disposable cups, when ordering coffee and tea from the CNIB Cafeteria for department meetings, etc. - Encouraging employees to bring their own water bottles to work instead of using styrofoam/paper cups for drinking water. - Encouraging composting of organic materials in the workplace and at home, recycling, the use of both sides of paper before recycling, buying previously owned goods, use of cloth bags/backpacks instead of plastic, use of public transport or walking/cycling. - Promoting "Lights Out" and "Computers Off" when we leave the workplace in the evening. This initiative will help reduce our hydro usage. Overhead desk lights, table lamps, computers, radios and other electric appliances should be turned off at the end of the work day. - Encouraging employees to reduce landfill waste by extending the life of their inkjet printer cartridges. Many businesses professionally refill inkjet cartridges with cartridge specific inks saving customers up to 60% on the cost of new replacements. With proper cartridge care, a cartridge can often be refilled more than once, maximizing its use before it is recycled. - Encouraging the use of recycling throughout the workplace, buying products locally whenever possible, and refraining from buying goods with excessive packaging. - Contacting "junk faxers" and asking to be removed from their list. Ongoing initiatives for employees at home and in the workplace to consider include: - Build a vermi-composter to reduce organic waste. - Seasonal composting, i.e. pumpkin composting after Halloween and the friendly disposal of evergreen trees after Christmas. - Continue usual practices of composting, reducing garbage by only buying what is needed, choosing products with little or no packaging and if there is packaging, recycle everything your municipality allows for. - Recycle paper, cardboard and all other recyclables. - Participate in battery and cell phone collections. - Car pool to work. - Get rid of your household hazardous waste during Household Hazardous Waste Days. Please check the MMSB website www.mmsb.nl.ca for the locations and dates.
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Port Blandford, Town of	In 2006, Port Blandford faced many small town issues related to waste management in the community. As a new initiative, we have offered compost bins through MMSB, promoted recycling, reorganized our landfill site and established new guidelines for waste disposal. We are going to hold a used clothing drive through the Canadian Diabetes Association's CLOTHESLINE program, the Royal Canadain Sea Cadet Corps will be holding a Bottle Drive, and we will be distributing a newsletter to residents with other suggestions on how they can reduce their waste through reducing, recycling, and reusing. (to be on recycled paper of course!)
St.Gabriel's AllGrade - St. Brendan's	A used clothing drive and recycling cans, bottles and juice packs.

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

Stephanie Daley - St. John's

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New Brunswick

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Hot Toads! Toy Store - Oromocto	Hot Toads! is an online retail toy store based in Oromocto NB. We receive many 1000's of kilograms of corrugated cardboard boxes into our warehouse. We give the customer the option of reusing these boxes to ship their purchases instead of new boxes. Any cardboard that is not suitable for reusing is recycled at our local depot. www.hottoads.com
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Nadine Willis - Howard Brook	We compost everything we can. We separate our cardboard, plastic, paper, and metal for recycling.
Resnet Inc. - Edmundston	Donate your older computer, we give a second life to families in need. Bring your obsolete computer equipment for recycling, every part is recycled. www.resnet.nb.ca

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

Beverly Quinlan - Gallagher Ridge

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Nova Scotia

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
Basinview Drive Community School - Bedford	School assembly celebrating our committment to the 3 R's formal kick off of our school wide waste reduction teams.
Eastern Region Solid Waste Mgmt - Boylston	- Business visits through the week in Antigonish and Guysborough Counties October 16 - 20. - Lunch and Learn Session with the Guysborough County RDA and BDC October 16. - Waste Management Booth at Guysborough Waste Management Facility October 16 - 20. - Waste Management Booth 'A Taste of Antigonish' Tradeshowcase at the Charles V. Keating Millennium Centre, St FX Campus October 19, 3 - 6 pm.
Cape Breton Baby Company - Sydney	We are a small business promoting the use of cloth diapers and reusable feminine hygiene products. We offer for retail a variety of cloth diapers and accessories as well as washable feminine hygiene supplies. www.capebretonbaby.com
Colchester, County of - Truro	On Satuday October 21st, our Waste Reduction staff will be hosting a Household Hazardous Waste mobile event in West Colchester. Any leftover household products that contain corrosive, toxic, ignitable or reactive ingredients will be accepted free of charge for all County residents. During WRW, our Waste Reduction staff will concentrate their time doing residential and business waste audits, including school visits and presentations.
Erma Green-Reinhardt - Bridgewater	Learn proper waste and compost disposal.
District of Guysborough, Municipality of	10th Annual Household Hazardous Waste Days October 16 to 21. Hauler and Waste Management Staff Appreciation Lunch October 19.
Halifax Regional Municipality	OPEN HOUSE at the HRM Recycling Plant: Saturday, October 21st, 1pm to 3pm, 50 Chain Lake Drive, Bayers Lake. Learn how your recyclables are handled at the facility and how they can be turned in to new products. HHW Drop-off Event: Saturday, October 21st, 9am to 4pm, Duncan MacMillan High School, Sheet Harbour. Household waste only. Depot operates rain or shine. For more information visit www.halifax.ca/wrms and click on the Waste Reduction Week logo.
Inkpen Family - Dartmouth	As a family of four with two parents and two young boys we make our recycling efforts a family priority. The boys are taught in school to recycle, reduce and reuse and we implement this theory at home as well. They put their garbage in their pockets and bring it home instead of throwing it away in public. Our oldest boy has the job of taking the food waste out to the bin as part of earning his weekly allowance. Also, our youngest knows that food left on his plate does NOT go into the garbage but into the bin. We all know how important recycling is to save the future of our planet. They make us proud.
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Lise Richard - Antigonish	The STFX Environmental Science Society will be promoting Waste reduction week through on-campus promotions, word of mouth, and emails featuring events and actions to take to reduce waste, and will be continuing such actions throughout the year.
Melissa MacIntyre - Timberlea	I am planning on sewing reusable grocery bags. This will reduce (and hopefully eliminate) my need to have my groceries packed in plastic. If anyone is interested in the same idea, I found a pattern on www.make-it-easy.com.
North East Kings Education Centre - Canning	- Garbageless Lunch day - Enviro Tip of the Day - Bird Feeders - Environmental Poster Contest - Environmental Club will be making recycled projects (Example: using old jeans to make purses and wallets).
Park Place Hotel, Ramada - Halifax	This hotel has been awarded 4 Green Keys of the Hotel Association of Canada program in 2004. We have extensive ongoing waste reduction programs in all departments including Food and Beverage.
PC Salvage - Durham	We would like to extend an invitation to you to join many other business and individuals in making the proper environmental choice by allowing us to recycle your unwanted computers, hardware and peripherals. Our services are free of charge; one phone call (902-485-4126) will get that outdated and non-functional equipment out of your way. pcsalvage@ns.sympatico.ca
Pictou County Solid Waste - New Glasgow	Oct. 14th - WRW display at the Atlantic Superstore in New Glasgow. Oct. 17th - Hauler Appreciation BBQ held at the Transfer Station in Mount William, Pictou County. Prizes and draws. Promoting continued cooperation with the haulers in reducing waste. Oct. 18th - Lunch & Learn at the Nova Scotia Community College in Stellarton Waste Reduction Trivia on CKEC radio station - 2 questions per day - for a chance to win a prize package.
St. Catherine's Elementary - Halifax	We are implementing a school wide composting and recycling program. We are also starting a school environment club for grades 3-6.
Stella A. Brinton - Halifax	My plan (not just for the week but always) is to reduce and try to conserve, and recycle as much as possible. I recycle everything I can. Laundry is always a full load of wash to limit water usage. I only use my diswasher if I have a lot of company. My light bulbs are all energy efficient. I encourage all my family and friends in the importance of trying to save our environment.
Steven Buckland - Hamonds Plains	Local street and gutter clean up in conjunction with Halifax Regional Municipality. Adopt a park program. Maintain greenspace in anti litter and graffiti efforts.

Thank you to the following friends in Nova Scotia who have registered for this year:

Bois-Joli Elementary - Dartmouth Karen Shaw - Enfield Yukari Hori - Halifax

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Prince Edward Island

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com
Waste Check - Yarmouth	"Get Caught" doing something good for the environment. Waste Check staff will be randomly on the road throughout the week awarding prizes to individuals that "Get Caught". A Waste Check representative will be randomly visiting businesses throughout the week with a free gift and tips on how to reduce waste. Join us at our community swap for a chance to drop off and/or pick up gently-used clothing, toys, books, housewares and more. All items must be in good working condition. A community swap is an excellent opportunity to relieve us all that clutter and perhaps find something that we could use. This event will kick off Waste Reduction Week. **Bring your own shopping bag** Date: Saturday October 14, 2006 Location: Royal Canadian Legion 92 Mount Street, Digby Admission: Free Items can be dropped off at the above location from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and FREE items will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For more information contact Waste Check at 1-800-569-0039

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

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Yukon Territory

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com

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

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Northwest Territories

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com

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

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Nunavut Territory

Organization	WRW Activities or Events
i-WasteNot Systems	We will give away a free community waste reduction website and materials (waste exchange) for a year to the Canadian community that writes us with the best application for why they need one of our green community websites. Community waste reduction websites include directories of green businesses, green charities and green events, along with a Community Recycling and Reuse Guide (by type of material). Send your submission by November 15, 2006 and if your community is chosen, your Green Community Waste Reduction Website will be running by January 2007. www.i-wastenot.com

Thank you to the following friends in the Nunavut Territory registered for this year:

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International Friends

Giselle W - France H