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Excelus Web Solutions
Alberta
Strathmore
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We will purchase and use recycling bins for the excess paper for the office and start taking more of the paper to recycling.
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Town of Cochrane
Alberta
Cochrane
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Senior's Day
When: Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 (11 am - 3 pm)
What: Join us for Senior's Day at the Cochrane Recycling Depot. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to assist Senior's with the unloading and sorting of their recyclables. Refreshments, door prizes, tours and information will be available.
Where:Cochrane Recycling Depot (50 Griffin Industrial Point, Cochrane, AB)
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One Simple Act - Resuable Bag Initiative
When: Sunday, October 25th, 2009 (11:30 am - 3 pm)
What: The Alberta Conservation Team, One Simple Act program in partnership with the Town of Cochrane and?and the Cochrane IGA?will be giving away reusable shopping bags at the Cochrane IGA as part of Waste Reduction Week. Shoppers will be asked to commit to One Simple Act, pledging their committment to reducing their environmental footprint.
Where: Cochrane IGA
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Fall Cleanup
When: Month of October. Open Thursday - Sunday (10 am - 6 pm) Closed Monday - Wednesday.
What: Town of Cochrane residents can make the right choice to dispose of their yard waste appropriately at our annual Fall Cleanup. Bring your leaves and grass down to the Lagoon site for composting.
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Ecole Elizabeth Barrett Elementary
Alberta
Cochrane
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We have launched a waste-free program this school year. We hope to reduce the amount of waste coming into the school, even as recyclables, through a pack-in pack-out initiative and educational speaker and motivational series. We also hope to measure and reduce other areas of waste including paper, and our staff room.
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Integra Tire & Auto Centres Ltd.
Alberta
Edmonton
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Through our website we will be sending all visitors a free shopping tote bag when they sign up for updates and newsletters. The tote bags is a way for us to reduce our footprint?on the environment?on behalf of our 62 dealers across western canada within the automotive service industry. The shopping tote bags are made?with recycled materials, and through this program we hope to reduce the amount of plastic shopping bags that end up in the landfills. We will promote the Waste Reduction Week on our website, and provide our dealers with the information on our intranet.
All of our locations do their part by recycling oils, batteris, parts and tires?plus any?other materials that they use to service customer vehicles.
At our corporate office location, we recyle paper, boxes, use recycled materials for all our advertising and in store POS materials. All of the cleaning supplies used are environmentally friendly.
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Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
Alberta
Calgary
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We are members of the NSAA Sustainable Slopes Program. This program fits our companies guidelines as care for the environment is a core commitment of our team.
1. Water Conservation - Low or no flow toilets, newest snowmaking technology that uses less water and less energy and creates the best possible snow surface.
2. Energy Conservation - Carpool programs, less use of vehicles for work, replaced older & less efficient pumps in snowmaking with an energy efficient state-of-the-art system, new fuel-efficient snow CATS.
3. Recycling - Use corn-based plastic bags that easily bio-degrade, paper & cardboard waste program as well as bottle, cup and can program.
These are just a few of our actions towards our environmental committment.
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National Energy Board
Alberta
Calgary
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Town of Stony Plain
Alberta
Stony Plain
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Every year during Waste Reduction Week, the Town of Stony Plain collects craft supplies from the community (i.e. boxes, jars, fabric, etc.) and then gives them away to people in the community to make crafts out of such as schools, churches, seniors, or just crafty people. This is a form of recycling that allows for people to find a better home for some of their items than the garbage, and provide free supplies to people. |
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Penbrooke Meadows School
Alberta
calgary
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We will be measuring our level of garbage produced in one week. Then we challenge classrooms to decrease this level by 50% in the following week.
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Lana Nordmark
Alberta
Edmonton
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Colonel Walker School
Alberta
Calgary
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We have just begun recycling batteries as a new part to the extensive environmental program we already run at Colonel Walker school.
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Father Beauregard School
Alberta
Fort McMurray
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As a class we have been discussing how waste effects our world. We started a recycling program in our school and will be participating in a community clean up. We will be studying how to reduce packaging and have parents volunteers signed up to help us RECYCLE, REDUCE and REUSE.
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Battalion Park
Alberta
Calgary
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Grade Four classes plan to learn how to have litterless lunches and snacks and to promte this schoolwide through our example. We plan to keep a compost bin in our classroom for organic waste. To learn about landfills and recycling programs we wil be touring a Landfill site and having a school presetation on the new Blue Box recycling program in our city. We also plan to create our own mini landfills to test the decomposition of a variety of materials over time. We will support and promte the present schoolwide paper, cardboard, and bottle recyling initiatives. We plan to reduce the use of paper for notices and assignments through the use of email and a class D2L (Desire to Learn) website.
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Alberta
Rimbey
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We are hosting a community meeting October 22 called "Is there a Future for Recycling in Rimbey?" Speakers Christina Seidel and Dave Whitfield from Environment Alberta will make a presentation about what is possible and happening in towns like ours. We're sponsoring a poster contest for children and youth. Questions to address: 1) What does it cost? 2) Can we afford NOT to recycle? 3) What are the real environmental benefits of recycling? 4) What's possible? 5) What can we do here?
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Canyon
Alberta
Pincher Creek
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Students in Grade 4 will be encouraged to bring a lunch with no waste on Wednesday of Waste Reduction Week. We will also be going on a field trip to visit the landfill, the recylcing centre and a farm. Another field trip will be to the Wastewater Treatment Plant. |
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Weinlos
Alberta
Edmonton
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The students will recycle paper, cans and bottles. They are also collecting fruit and vegetables for composting. In class, we will collect and sort waste during waste reduction week. We tallied and graphed the types of waste on the playground and discussed solutions to reducing this waste.
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École La Mosaïque
Alberta
Calgary
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Environmental Imaging Ltd.
Alberta
Calgary
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Our business is about educating companies on the use of recycled printing products. We have several programs that help companies elimiate waste in the office, while reducing their printing costs. For the WRW we will be offering free pick up of empty printer cartridges as well as FREE samples of our recycled paper products. Planet Friendly products help save the planet and companies reduce waste.
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Westminster Elementary School
Alberta
Lethbridge
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Whenever my class is going down to gym, library, science, French, computers, etc. we pass by rooms that are unoccupied. If there is a light on, my students automatically stick their hand in and turn the switch off. What we will be doing now will be putting a note on the staff members computer telling what we did and why we did it and then thanking them for helping us with our cause (it will be a happy face note).
The students have also committed to be good role models for younger students in our school, especially when my students are in the bathrooms and they see little kids running water when they are soaping up. We will be making posters reminding them to save energy by shutting the taps off.
We will also be putting announcements on our PA to let everyone know what we will be doing during the month of Oct. and for the rest of the year.
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Westglen
Alberta
Edmonton
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Gr 6 Earth Patrols will promote waste reduction all week through announcements, posters and lunch "inspections".
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Alberta
Edmonton
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Note:? This event has been postponed due to inclimate weather.? It will be re-booked for next spring.?
The Hudson Playground Committee is under the Cumberland/Oxford Community League in Edmonton. We have been working on a new playground for our community. Our playground is finished, and we are planning a grand opening and BBQ. At this event, we are organizing the BBQ to not have any throw-away cups or plates, and plan to compost any food waste.
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St. Basil School
Alberta
Calgary
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Scott Robertson School
Alberta
Edmonton
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403.542.2533
Alberta
Strathmore
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Planning: Campbells Soup labels for education to provide schools with library books, sports equipment, computers, software, musical instruments, etc...I will be in contact with the local schools to start this program. Continuous: residential and commercial curb side household recycle pickup provided to strathmore residents. most household recyclables picked up.
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Poplar Ridge
Alberta
Red Deer
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We will continue with our recycling program. We include the community in bottle drives. We will be doing a waste audit and finding ways we can reduce waste at our school.
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Aquatera Utilities (City of Grande Prairie)
Alberta
Grande Prairie
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Aquatera visits over 1500 grade 2 and grade 4 students each year with an hour long interactive recycling presentation and activity. We also supply each classroom with an assortment of tools to encourage recycling in their school and class. We also host a "get caught recycling" contest where random recyclers are awarded for their efforts - it really does pay to recycle. We also education the general population about Waste Reduction Week and its benefits through billboards, radio ads, newsprint ads and in our utility bill insert to each household. In addition, we also help supply beverage recycling containers to non profit groups and schools in our service areas.
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Alberta
Edmonton
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In hopes of reducing not only personal consumption, but those in my community I have started my own company to urge people to live a greener life. To me one of the most important areas of this revolves around waste reduction by rethinking the items you already have in your house hold. Our peosonal goal this summer is to be non-consumers, by purchasing as little as we possibley can we will in turn produce much less waste from manufacturing, packing, shipping, and eventually throwing away we hope to put a large dent in this cycle. We have started our own compost bin and recycle as much as we can. Our small yard has become a beginning gardener's vegtable patch, and we encourage our children to take small portions and have seconds rather than be wasteful, we have even gone so far as to sell our extra car. I guess it comes down to the simple idea that the less we use the less we throw out. Or if I can use the mission statement from my business, is to inspire a simpler life for all of us, one family at a time, one day at a time, one planet for all time.
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Bach Khoa University
Alberta
Ha Noi
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Robina Baker Elementary School
Alberta
Devon
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Vista Heights School
Alberta
Calgary
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Westbrook School
Alberta
Edmonton
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Event/Activity name: Caring for the Environment
Description: Westbrook Elementary School will be gathering for a school wide assembly to kick off Waste Reduction Week (October 19 – 25, 2009).
At the assembly:
The topic of the assembly is “Caring for Our Environment.” The three grade 4 classes will be teaching the students, parents and staff audience about how we can take care of our earth.
The grade 4’s have been studying Waste and Our World in science class. They have learned that our earth is very valuable and that we need to protect it from pollution and garbage. There are three main ways that we can do this. We can reduce the amount of garbage that we produce, we can reuse products instead of throwing them in the garbage so that we do not fill our landfills with unnecessary waste and we can recycle.
The grade 4 students are wearing Fashion Trash. They have collected old items that would have been thrown in the garbage, and have used them to make interesting outfits. This is just one way that we can reuse waste items instead of throwing them into the garbage and filling up our landfills. You can help save the world from pollution and garbage.
Lead singer Holly Arntzen on the dulcimer and Kevin Wright on drums, and the grade 4 students will be singing 4 songs about taking care of our Earth. We hope that you learn a lot from our presentation. Enjoy the musical presentation celebrating nature for the school assembly as well as a special concert at the University of Alberta’s Myer Horowitz Theatre on Tuesday, October 20th.
In the classroom:
During Waste Reduction Week, classes will be competing in a Waste Reduction Contest throughout the school K- 6. Over the course of the week, waste will be weighed in each classroom and the classes in Division I and Division II which produce the least amount of waste, will win a pizza lunch for their room.
Guest speakers have been invited to speak to students about composting, vermicomposting, sorting materials for recycling and the landfill.
Blue boxes are being purchased for placement in all the classrooms and offices to recycle paper in the school.
Our Grade Four students will be the first to pilot a vermicomposting programme within our school.
There are field trips planned for visits to the City landfill (Clover Bar Waste Management).
A permanent bulletin board will be installed to display and demonstrate what is recycled and what is not recycled by the City of Edmonton’s residential recycle programme.
Waste Reduction Week has provided us with the impetus to implement a sustainable “greening plan” for our School. We thank you for the resources and information made available to us to inspire this transformation.
Thank you.
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