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British Columbia
| Organization |
WRW Activity or Event |
| Recycling Council of British Columbia |
Kick Off Waste Reduction Week With The Canucks' Fin
The Waste Reduction Week Kick-off for B.C. is Sunday, October 17th 2004 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, 5851 West Boulevard, in Vancouver.
RCBC invites everyone for a free continental breakfast, to learn more about reducing waste at home, to be entertained, make some crafts, and play some games in a fun family atmosphere.
Canucks' mascot Fin arrives at 10 a.m. with autograph cards and to play a little hockey with young Canucks fans. He'll be assisted by the comedic antics of the Firehall Players Improv (FPI) group, who will perform their special brand of comedy improv, then invite youth attending to join in their interactive improv games.
There will also be face painting, games, arts and crafts and more. So don't miss the chance to have a muffin, shoot a puck at Fin, have a laugh and learn about reducing the waste in your life.
Other groups attending include the City of Vancouver with demonstrations of the city's new automated residential-waste pick-up system. |
| Recycling Council of British Columbia |
The Speakers Slate will be held from October 18th - 22nd providing information to the public on waste reduction issues. Please stay tuned for more details. |
| Recycling Council of British Columbia |
Breakfast with the Ministry has been set for October 21st at the Radisson President Hotel in Richmond. Learn about how current Ministry issues are being handled and potential for future issue management. Further details will follow. |
| Apex Christian Academy |
We plan to set up a composter and may visit a vermiculture farm. We will discuss ways to reduce garbage waste (composting, being a careful shopper, etc). |
| Braefoot Elementary School |
Activities to help children develop an awareness of what an individual consumes in the areas of food, clothing, school materials, transportation, etc. |
| Cassie Hall School |
We are going to be using overheads instead of photocopying and recycling all the lunch juice containers in school. |
| City of Nelson |
Working with Nelson's business community, residents, resource recovery businesses and community partners, local and regional governments, and our regional schools to reduce the amount of materials Nelson and region landfills. Designing waste reduction strategies for local businesses and multi-family dwellings in conjunction with waste audits. Also raising awareness about solid waste reduction via media, creating resource recovery linkages among Nelson businesses, and will be conducting waste reduction presentations and projects with local grade schools. |
| City of Surrey – Partners in Parks Program |
The City of Surrey's Partners in Parks volunteer program and ReLeaf tree-planting program, will be launching a Community Pick 'n Plant Event at Fleetwood Park, located at 160th Street & 80th Avenue in Surrey. On Saturday October 23rd, from 10 am - 2 pm, families, friends and neighbours will join together to participate in a massive park clean-up of Fleetwood Park and then further enhance the space by planting native shrubs and trees. This free family-oriented event will also showcase face painting, garbage-reducing relay races, display presentations, and other fun educational activities throughout the day. Everyone is welcome. |
| Computer Recycling Society |
During National Waste Reduction Week in Canada, October 18-24, 2004, we invite the community to visit our facility to learn how our refurbishing operation works - and how our next-door neighbour, TechnoTrash Okanagan Limited-"de-manufactures" obsolete electronic equipment for zero-waste recycling.
We will be in attendance from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day to conduct informal tours of the facility and to answer your questions.
Also, from October 18 – 23, we will be conducting a joint "E-waste Round-up". We will be accepting working and waste electronics equipment at no charge. We invite everyone with unused computers etc. to bring them along to help provide computers for needful people, and to divert E-waste from the landfill!
For more information about this event, please contact Computer Recycling Society at 250-765-3875. |
| Corporation of Delta |
Delta will celebrate Waste Reduction Week with its Annual Environmental Fair and National Science & Technology Week. The event will take place from October 18 - 22 at the Delta Municipal Hall at 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent. Environmental organizations will have on display exhibits of their initiatives in the community. Highlights of the Kid's Day on Oct 22 include a bat box workshop, landfill tours, and a junkology arts and crafts demonstration. |
| Drum-it Percussion |
We have arranged with the Communicator Newsletter to host a contest to raise awareness of the Waste Reduction Week Canada in October. The contest begins on Oct 4th and ends Oct 24th; winner will be announced Nov. 1st. The Communicator will be covering the event with articles and announcements and reminders throughout the month of October. We are asking people in the community to submit the best reuse idea to the newsletter. The best reuse idea wins our book, Trash Talk - an inspirational guide to saving time and money through better waste and resource management. There may be many excellent reuse ideas from this contest and we plan to post them on our website's Tip of the Week. This service on our website will be a place where individuals and organizations can share reuse and reduction ideas. (This will be on-line in a couple of months.) We hope that this contest will bring awareness to both the concept of waste reduction and inform people about the annual waste reduction week. We hope that this event will be only the first of waste reduction events in our community and that others will help make this a larger, more ambitious community project every year. |
| Environment Canada |
For waste reduction week, a compost challenge will be held between Environment Canada and Department of Fisheries & Oceans. |
| Fraser Valley Regional District |
October 23 Fall Foliage Composting Celebration from 10am to 3pm at Minter Country Gardens on Young Road North, Chilliwack. This fun filled day of "Edutainment" will educate the public on the importance of backyard composting and the EASE at which it can be done!! There will be a series of speakers giving 15-minute lectures on composting. Aunty Litter, a local children's entertainer, will be helping to get the message of composting out using music and comedy. There will be radio personalities on site, Brian Minter and lots and lots of give-aways! Entrance to the event is the donation of a non-perishable food staple for the Salvation Army Community Food Bank. The donation gives you a chance at winning a backyard composter!!! |
| GVRD |
We will be delivering a workshop called,” No Time To Waste" to teachers. This workshop is about garbage and recycling. This workshop will be held in Langley, BC on October 22, 2004. |
| Hammond Elementary School |
Continued classroom participation in newspaper, other paper, milk carton recycling and composting systems. |
| Ladner Elementary School |
Educate students about waste reduction activities and recycling and conservation. |
| Nikkie's Wigglers Ranch |
All of my organics are composted with Red Wiggler Worms. I sell Wiggler worms to other composters along with mini vermi-composting kits, to assist people to divert their organics from landfill. |
| North Vancouver Freecycle |
Attempting to encourage reuse, reduce, and recycling in North Vancouver through "freecycling". Please visit www.freecycle.org |
| Northern Environmental Action Team |
Staffed displays in Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, Tumbler Ridge and Chetwynd. Will be contacting every municipal council in Peace River Regional District to declare Waste Reduction Week. |
| Peter Greer Elementary School |
Our school will be promoting garbageless lunch week as well as waste reduction in the school and home, and our teachers will be teaching lessons geared toward ways to accomplish this worthy goal. Currently we have a recycling program in place - where paper, cardboard and beverage containers are sent to the recyclers. We also have many electricity saving initiatives in place, such as shutting all computers down when not in use, automatic shut offs for classroom lights with motion sensors. We are currently updating our HVAC system to increase its efficiency thereby reducing natural gas waste. |
| REACH Home Learners in Motion |
The kids have been discussing in home use of water, electricity and recycling for some time. They all bring tetra paks and other refundable items, which are accumulated then returned. The money from the refunds goes to the charity of the children's choice. |
| Recycling & Environmental Action Planning Society (REAPS) |
School District 57 Waste Reduction Challenge. Encouraging classrooms to register for a Waste Reduction Week contest to see which classroom can produce the least amount of waste for the whole week. Teaching students about the 3Rs and the environment and how they can make a positive impact. |
| Regional District of Comox-Strathcona |
The WRW Community Contest
The Public: Anyone can enter, it’s easy, and all they have to do is bring their own shopping bags. Stores are encouraged to have their staff and customers bring in their cotton bags and plastic totes or reuse those plastic bags stored up in their closets. For every reusable bag a customer has they will have the opportunity to win some great prizes.
Businesses: The store with the most entry forms could win up to $500.00 worth of free advertising.
Two Categories; Grocery Stores/ Box Stores and Small Business. |
| Regional District of Kootenay Boundary |
During WRW the RD plans to work with schools in the District to raise the profile of waste reduction. They will also work with local media including running a week of ads in local papers along with a regular column on waste reduction. |
| Ridge Meadows Freecycle |
Attempting to encourage reuse, reduce, and recycling in Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows through "freecycling". Please visit www.freecycle.org |
| School District 68 |
We conduct a "Sweepfest" 4 times per school year in and around our school property. |
| Spectrum Community School Environment Club |
We will be recycling of all drink containers in our school, raising funds to offset the cost of maintaining crockery in the cafeteria, instead of using paper and plastic and generally educating the masses. |
| Stop Computer Landfill Society |
On October 23rd, 2004, from 7:30am - 3:30pm, Stop Computer Landfill, Society (SCLF) will host an E-Waste round up event at the Village Green Mall near Sportcheck on the north side. SCLF will accept computers, monitors, printers and peripherals, VCR and DVD players. For more information about this event, please contact SCLF Society at (250) 503-5593. |
| Techno Trash Okanagan Ltd. |
October 18-23 a regional E-waste Round-up in Kelowna, B.C. will be held at the TechnoTrash Okanagan Limited E-waste processing facility on Sexsmith Road.
For more information on this event, please contact TechnoTrash Okanagan Limited at 250-765-3875. |
| Township of Langley and Adopt-a-Program |
Celebrate Waste Reduction Week in Canada, with the Adopt-a-Programs. We are organizing FREE activities and events to get community members educated and involved!
In-class workshops
1. It's a Worm's World
Grades K to 3, 1.5 hours
Students discover how composting reduces the amount of garbage we throw out. Build a "5-star Worm Hotel" and investigate the amazing details of worm anatomy.
When: 8 sessions available: Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs - 9:30 am to 11:00 am OR 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm.
Hosted by Langley Environmental Partners Society.
Contact Rhonda to reserve a session 604-533-6054.
2. A-way with Waste
Grades 1 to 5, 1.5 hours
Challenge students to create a planet that makes no garbage. We will put our brains together and figure out new uses for old stuff.
When: 8 sessions available: Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs - 9:30 am to 11:00 am OR 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Hosted by Langley Environmental Partners Society.
Contact Rhonda to reserve a session 604-533-6054.
Tours and workshops
Langley Demonstration Garden Tour and Workshop
Grades K to 7, 1.5 hours
Explore the Township of Langley Demonstration Garden and discover how composting reduces the amount of garbage we throw out. Students brainstorm ways to reduce garbage, and explore the composting process. Primary grades build a "5-Star Worm Hotel" and intermediate grades harvest compost to plant fall flowers.
When: 8 sessions available: Mon, Tues, Wed, and Thurs - 9:30 am to 11:00 am OR 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Hosted by Langley Environmental Partners Society.
Contact Rhonda to reserve a session 604-533-6054.
Challenges and teacher's resources
1. Counting Litter Out - teaching guide
Grades 3 to 7, 2 hours
Study litter around your school; Explore litter's impact and what it reveals about your community. Conduct a litter survey then analyze the results. Survey results contribute to real litter survey for the Township. All survey supplies are provided, classes receive a certificate signed by the Mayor and each participant receives a gift.
Contact the Adopt-a-Street Coordinator for your teaching guide 604-532-7339.
2. Litterless Lunch Challenge - "contest" with teaching guide
For all levels
Explore the endless options to make your lunch litterless where nothing is thrown away. Students and teachers discuss then plan and pack litterless lunches. Teachers receive a Litterless Lunch Pack that includes information about litterless lunches and letters to get parents involved. Submit designs complete with carrying instructions for great prizes.
Contact the Adopt-a-Street Coordinator for your Litterless Lunch Pack 604-532-7339.
Educators Workshop
1. Throwing Curricula in the Garbage: Ideas and Resources You Can Fit into Just One Bag
GVRD Teach the Teacher Workshop, K to 1
Explore the world of castaways and make sense of the senseless waste. Learn about the big problem and solutions. Try activities to explore plant and animal cycles, changes in physical science, composting, natural resources and recycling paper, glass, metals, and plastics. Complete with take-away resources, activities ideas and connections.
When: Friday, October 22nd, Primary Teachers Conference.
Register with the School District at 604.534.7891, workshop #1039-04.
Contact the Adopt-a-Street Coordinator for more information 604-532-7339.
Community Events
1. Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Days
Rid yourself from years of accumulated household hazardous waste, HHW. Drop-off your HHW at our weekend event and properly dispose of these materials that are harmful to the environment. Learn about alternatives to HH products, and how you can dispose of them safely and properly throughout the year.
When: Sat and Sun, October 23rd and 24th
Where: Township of Langley Operations Yard, 4700 - 224th Street, 9 am to 3 pm,
For Township of Langley residents only - proof of residency required.
See local papers in October for more information or call 604-532-7300.
2. Yorkson Creek Clean-up
Join your local streamkeeper group and keep a Langley waterway green and clean. Meet the Yorkson Watershed Stewardship Committee and help them with their regular clean-up of this stream. You'll be surprised at the treasures that are found in this local stream!
Clean-up equipment and refreshments provided. Please dress weather appropriate.
When: Sat, October 23rd, 10 am to 1 pm
Where: Meet at the Walnut Grove Park picnic shelter. RAIN OR SHINE.
To register or for more information, call Lisa at 604-533-6199.
3. Community clean-ups
Are you tired of seeing litter along your neighbourhood? Have you been thinking about doing something about it? Well, here is your chance. The Township of Langley Adopt-a-Program are supporting any community group - families, individuals, organizations and anyone interested, to conduct a one-time clean-up of their neighbourhood.
Conduct your clean-up and receive basic clean-up materials, safety information, and have the garbage removed and disposed of.
Contact the Adopt-a-Street Coordinator for more information 604-532-7339 |
| Transport Canada |
During Waste Reduction week a panel display with posters and brochures to promote waste reduction or minimization at home and workplace will be presented. There will also be a floor-to-floor challenge of the least amount of paper waste generated on a designated day during waste reduction week. |
| William Whyte School |
We are planning to begin a recycling/composting/clothing exchange program this year. As part of our on going initiative to reduce/recycle and reuse we will be observing Waste Reduction Week by encouraging our students, staff and families to support our environment by bringing "less waste" lunches to school/work and to participate in the 3Rs on an on going basis. We will be providing ideas and information to students, staff and families. |
| Thank you the following organizations who have registered for Waste Reduction Week in Canada 2004, with the Recycling Council of British Columbia: |
A & S Trucking Bottle Depot
AAA Environmental, Inc.
ABC Recycling
Alcan Inc.
Alpine Disposal & Recycling Ltd.
Amcor PET Packaging
Anchor Point Consulting
Annieville School
AtSource Recycling Systems Corporation
Autocore Transport Ltd.
BC Hydro
Beach Grove School
Beacon Environmental Services
Belkin Paper Stock
Berry and Smith Trucking
Boundary Beach School
Brooke School
Burnsview School
Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc.
Canadian Fibre
Capital Regional Ditrict
Cariboo Regional District
Carney's Waste Systems
Chalmers School
Christina Lake News
City of Abbotsford
City of Coquitlam
City of Kamloops
City of Nanaimo
City of Port Moody
City of Prince Rupert
City of Quesnel
City of Richmond
City of Vancouver- Environmental Protection
Cliff Drive School
Columbia Bottle Enterprise
Community Youth Group
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Ltd.
Corporation of the District of Summerland
Cougar Canyon School
Cowichan Valley Regional District
D.W. Poppy Secondary School
David Hoy Elementary School
DC Recycling & Bottle Depot
Delta Manor School
Delta Sec School
Delview School
Departure Bay Elementary School
Devon Gardens School
District of Sparwood
Dixie Ingraham - Individual
Dow Chemical Canada Inc.
Earth Tech Canada
Ecotainer Sales Inc. & Anex Distributors Ltd.
Electronics Recycling Co. Ltd.
Encorp Pacific (Canada)
English Bluff School
Envisions 2001
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
Fuel Pro Systems Inc.
Galiano Community School
Gartner Lee Limited
Genesis Recycling Ltd.
Gibson School
GPC International
Gray School
Happy Tools, Inc
Hawthorne School
Heath School
Hellings School
Holly School
Insurance Corporation of BC (ICBC) - Environmental Services
International Fibre Recycling Ltd.
International Paper Industries Ltd.
Jarvis School
JB Services Inc.
Junction Bottle Depot
KT Brokerage Ltd.
Kwantlan College
Ladner School
Langley Bottle Depot
Langley Secondary School
Lionel Braithwaite
MAXUS Technology Inc.
McCloskey School
McLeods Byproducts Ltd.
Merlin Plastics Supply Inc.
Metro Materials Recovery Inc.
MJ Waste Solutions
Monitor King
Murray-Latta Machine Co.
Neilson Grove School
New West Gypsum Recycling (BC) Inc.
Newalta Corporation
NorskeCanada, Paper Recycling Division
North Cedar Intermediate School
North Delta Sr. School
North Shore Credit Union
North Shore Credit Union
North Shore Recycling Program
North Star Recycling |
Nu-Life Industries
O-I Canada Corp.
Okanagan Valley Bottle and Recycling Ltd.
Overwaitea Food Group
Parksville Bottle and Recycling Depot
Pat Cher Enterprises
Peace River Regional District
Pebble Hill School
Pinewood School
Port Guichon School
Powell River Regional District
R. Driedger & Associates Ltd.
Rayz Computer Recycling
Recycle Systems
Recycle-Logic Inc.
Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako
Regional District of Central Kootenay
Regional District of Central Okanagan
Regional District of Fraser-Fort George
Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine
Regional District of Mount Waddington
Regional District of Nanaimo
Regional District of North Okanagan
Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen
Reid's Auto Wrecking (1999) Ltd.
Resort Municipality of Whistler
Richardson School
Richmond School District Event
Rick Weik Services
Sands Secondary School
School District 005 Southeast Kootenay
School District 006 Rockey Mountain
School District 008 Kootenay Lake
School District 020 Kootenay-Columbia
School District 028 Quesnel
School District 033 Chilliwack
School District 034 Abbotsford
School District 036 Surrey
School District 040 New Westminster
School District 041 Burnaby
School District 042 Maple Ridge
School District 045 West Vancouver
School District 047 Powell River
School District 048 Howe Sound
School District 052 Prince Rupert
School District 053 Okanagan Similkameen
School District 054 Bulkley Valley
School District 059 Peace River South
School District 063 Saanich
School District 067 Okanagan
School District 069 Qualicum
School District 43 Coquitlam
Seaquam Sec. School
Seaview Elementary School
Shoreline Middle School
Shortreed Community School
Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District
Sound Resource Management Group, Inc
South Delta Sec School
South Park School
Special Waste Disposal BC Inc
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Stop Computer Land Fill (SCLF) Society
Stop Computer Landfill Society
Sunshine Hills School
Superintendent of Public Works
SuperPages
Teck Cominco Metals Ltd.
Telus Communications (B.C.) Inc.
Terra Gaia Inc.
Tetra Pak Canada Inc.
The Battery Doctors
The Legacy Group
Thompson Nicola Regional District
Tillicum Elementary School
Tim Reeve & Associates
Town of Princeton
Town of Qualicum Beach
Toxco Waste Management
Transform Compost Systems
Trashbusters
Tyee Appliance & Refrigeration Ltd.
Urban Impact Recycling Ltd.
Urban Wood Waste Recyclers Ltd.
Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
Vancouver International Airport Authority
Vancouver Public Library - Serials Section
Vancouver School Board
Varsek Trading Group Inc.
Village of Tahsis
Vitreous Capital Inc.
VJChem Canada Inc.
Waste Management of Canada
Wastech Services Ltd.
Wavor Wire Ltd.
Western Rubber Products Ltd.
Weyerhaeuser (USA) |
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Alberta
| Organization |
WRW Activity or Event |
| Recycling Council of Alberta |
EPIC, APRA and Waste Management are holding a reused materials soap box challenge at Mount Royal College Science and Technology Faculty. Students from the faculty have built a soap box car out of reused materials. They will present their design to a panel of judges. For more details and to register please email us at
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| Recycling Council of Alberta |
Medicine Hat - Alberta’s Minister of the Environment, the Honorable Lorne Taylor, will join Maxus Technology in teaching grade 4 students at Conaught Elementary School (101 8th Street SW in Medicine Hat) about electronics and eWaste Recycling. The event will feature hands-on activities for the kids including being able to see what’s inside a computer and what parts are toxic. Event time: TBA (most likely 2:00pm). Media are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes prior. |
| ABCRC |
Alberta bottle depots are encouraged by ABCRC to participate in a contest to increase community knowledge, activity and awareness of bottle depots and the beverage container recycling system. Publicity around the contest will occur throughout the week. |
| Abbott Elementary School |
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| Anne Fitzgerald School |
We currently have a mini-landfill running at the back of the Grade 4 classroom (in the form of a large box) so that students can see for one week how much garbage they actually throw out. Only non-perishables are thrown in the mini-landfill. Students are then made aware of how much garbage can be recycled and they are encouraged to recycle as much as possible. Their recycling efforts are part of what has earned them Emerald status as an environmentally green school. |
| Belgravia Elementary School |
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| Calgary Co-op |
Calgary Co-op is doubling its “Bags to Riches” refund. Customers will receive 6 cents rather than 3 cents for each bag that they bring in to reuse while shopping. Devon’s new recycling center is having its grand opening. Cookies and coffee will be available throughout the day for anyone who is interested in their new facility. |
| City of Lethbridge – Environmental Management |
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| Clarence Jaycox School |
Started a school recycling program as a class project to coincide with Science curriculum. |
| Edmonton Catholic Schools – School District |
Edmonton Catholic Schools Printing Department practices waste reduction throughout the year. Paper packaging is saved and reused when shipping orders out to the schools. Scratch pads are made out of good-one-side paper from rejected print jobs. During Waste Reduction Week, our Printing Department will be giving free scratch pads out to the schools. |
| Edmonton Community Network |
We will 'launch' Waste Reduction Week on the Saturday prior - October 16 - with our Second Annual Electronics Swap meet - beginning with a 7 AM breakfast, and ending with dinner theatre approximately 9 PM. Throughout the day we will host a series of seminars on electronics, Internet, and E-Waste Reduction. Shortly we will write a web page with details - see it at our web page of ecn.ab.ca. Last year we launched this week (again on the prior Saturday to the week) with our First Annual Electronics Swap meet, where Edmontonians could come and swap electronics and keep them out of the landfill while there was still some use in them. October 18, 2004 is our 10th anniversary, and we celebrate on the Saturday closest to that date each year - thus choosing to launch the Waste Reduction Awareness week on our birthday. Check details at ecn.ab.ca |
| Electronic Recycling Association of Alberta |
We wish to offer free collections to companies in Alberta during the waste reduction week of electronics and computers for reuse, or recycling. During the week we will be giving special discounts and free collections of reusable equipment to companies. Will also accept equipment and computers free of charge if it is dropped off from anyone. |
| FE Osborne Junior High |
As part of an ecosystems unit in Science for Grade 7 |
| Garneau School |
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| Good Shepherd School |
Our Grade 4 students are very active leaders in promoting waste reduction on a school-wide level. One class has implemented a daily collection of recyclable beverage containers, the funds of which will be used to adopt an animal at the Valley Zoo. They also collect can tabs for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The other grade 4 class is working towards the designation of Earth school by having all schools participate in various recycling activities from reusing both sides of paper to litterless lunches once a week to reducing power consumption. Both of these classes generally make the school population more environmentally aware and will be making special efforts to promote waste reduction during the upcoming Waste Reduction Week. |
| Grandin School |
We have several initiatives happening next week that will continue on throughout the year. They are collecting pop can tabs and donating them to the Tabs 4 Wheels program; they recycle juice boxes and bottles and are tracking the amount recycled through ABCRC s website; they separate and recycle paper. |
| Harry Hayes Building |
The employees of the Harry Hayes Building in Calgary will be having their annual Waste Expo for Waste Reduction Week on Wednesday October 23rd where various different waste reduction efforts will be profiled. |
| Lesser Slave Regional Waste Management |
The Lesser Slave Lake Recycling Committee has sponsored a booth at Sawridge Plaza Mall, giving out (Dairy Council) notepads and conducting a survey to evaluate our two-year-old recycling program. Landfill Manager Jule Asterisk will be making presentations at local schools and a growing number of other groups regarding waste reduction, diversion and recycling. |
| Mary Hanley School |
On-going Tetra Pak and soda tin collection, with the money donated to the library for environmental theme books. Our Green Club will educate students and develop responsibility for the environment. We will also be making of bird feeders from recycled objects. |
| McKenzie Lake School |
Our Green School Club will be promoting Recycling activities. We will also be hosting a Recycling Fair (like a Science Fair) where projects must be the creation of a useful item from something that might otherwise be thrown away. The Fair will involve 210+ students. |
| Midway Community School |
We plan to undertake a number of initiatives including the set up a recycling depot at the school, shut off lights when not needed, reuse paper, reusable lunch kits and containers. We will look at things we can do to help protect and preserve our earth. |
| Mountain Equipment Co-op Edmonton |
On an ongoing basis, we recycle everything we can, compost and vermicompost, re-use packing materials and other things, reduce our use of paper and disposable products, accept and send batteries for recycling, host City of Edmonton recycling drop-off bins on site, and are always looking for other ways to reduce waste. Free vermi-composting workshop at Mountain Equipment Co-op. at 7 p.m. Call (780)488-6614 or visit the Member Services desk to sign up. |
| Municipal District of Rocky View |
We will hold Household Hazardous Waste Round-Ups and will be unveiling a new mascot - Hawksley the Hawk to spread the message about "Keeping the view in Rocky View" |
| Municipality of Jasper |
Jasper Elementary School students will spend the week learning about waste reduction and other environmental topics. Grade 4 students will do a home waste audit and report their findings on the same day they visit the local transfer station. Municipality departments will recieve daily informative e-mails about waste reduction. Local newspaper will have a feature article about waste reduction in Jasper. |
| New Horizons School |
The grade 4 class at New Horizons School in Sherwood Park will be participating in Alberta Environment's 'Waste-Line' Challenge during Waste Reduction Week in October. We will be tracking how much and what kind of waste we produce and conceiving of strategies to reduce the amount of waste in the classroom. We are currently in the practice of recycling paper, juice boxes, pop cans, bottles, and milk cartons school wide. We also have a vermicompost for the entire school. We feel that reducing waste by recycling, reusing, etc., is very important for the world's future! |
| Norwood School |
As a school we reduce the amount of products that we use in the school and recycle all items that can be recycled. |
| Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo |
Fall Special - Household Hazardous Waste Roundup |
| Rundle College Elementary School |
Calgary - Media are invited for 9am to Rundle College Elementary School (2634 12 Ave NW) for one hour, where representatives from Maxus Technology will teach grade four students about the benefits of ensuring electronic products are recycled. In addition, parents, teachers and students at Rundle College Elementary are being invited to bring in their e-Waste to Rundle College for recycling during Waste Reduction Week for recycling by Maxus. |
| Sexsmith Bottle Depot |
We are taking part in the 2004 Community Champion Challenge |
| St. Benedict School |
The Grade 4 classes at St. Benedict School are currently learning about waste in the science topic Waste in Our World. In conjunction with Waste Reduction Week, a new initiative will be launched at St. Benedict. A Litterless Lunch program will be set up which basically aims at keeping school lunch waste to a minimum. This program will provide an excellent opportunity to apply learning to everyday life. Some suggestions to help make this program work would include: using reusable containers (both for food and drink), ziplock baggies (as they can be reused), using the appropriate containers to discard lunch items, classroom bin for juice boxes/bottles/pop cans, classroom white bucket for leftover food items bread crusts, apple cores, orange/banana peels, etc, the new Blue Bags for recyclable items milk cartons, lunchable boxes, fruit tins, yogurt/pudding containers, small cardboard candy boxes (Smarties, raisins, etc.), making a conscious effort to use the garbage cans both inside and outside the school. It is important that we work together as all of us have an important role to play in reducing waste. We, at St. Benedict School, will work on being part of the solution to our environmental concerns. We want a clean school, both inside and outside, and we all need to try our best to make our Litterless Lunch program work. |
| St. Elizabeth Seton Elementary/Junior High School |
We have 49 grade 4 students who have taken on the challenge of becoming the Recycling Club Leaders in their school. During lunch hour they collect juice boxes and drink containers, keeping a running count of the number of containers collected and displaying the results on the hallway bulletin board. The money raised from this project, which started at the beginning of the year, will be donated to a Canadian environmental organization to be determined at a later date. So far they have collected 1361 containers. During Waste Reduction Week the Recycling Club Leaders will be increasing their efforts to collect more containers for their project. |
| St. Gabriel School |
The staff and students have a paper recycle bin in every classroom, office, staff room and workroom. The grade 4 students will be collecting the paper on Thursday in support of Waste Reduction Week. The EE 1 program is involved too, collecting juice boxes and cans. |
| St Jerome's Catholic School |
Ongoing activities include collection of paper from the school to be collected for recycling and collection of bottles and cans for refund. We also have a worm composting bin and we plan to add collection of plastics from our class to be taken for recycling. |
| St Jerome School |
St. Jerome School believes in being good stewards of their environment. The Recycling grade four leaders have been touring classes, observing how well each class is doing with recycling. They have collected data, and will be graphing their results and sharing their learning with the school community. The Composting grade four leaders are working with red wiggler worms. They are preparing composting bins for all the classes and will be teaching other students what can and cannot be composted. |
| St. Mary's School |
We are planning a Trash-free lunch, will have playground garbage monitors on duty, will host an informative assembly and encourage juice box and pop can recycling. |
| St. Timothy School |
We have a Green Team which is promoting the recycling of juice boxes. The school also uses scrap (previously used) paper in their fax machine. During Waste Reduction Week the school will be making daily Green Facts announcements on the PA. |
| Techno Trash Alberta Inc. |
Electronics roundup October 22-23/04.
Ongoing process plant 4915, 77 Ave SE. Calgary. |
| Tilley School |
In collaboration with the grade 4 science curriculum, the grade 4 students will be responsible for cleaning up and recycling all materials at the school, determining where the waste goes at home and recycling or composting as much as possible. They will also have wasteless lunches for the entire week as we determine how much waste we have in normal week verses a wasteless week. The students will also produce posters to place around the school showing students how to recycle and make less waste. The students will continue to reduce, reuse and recycle their school wastes throughout the school year. |
| Town of Cochrane Recycling Depot |
Hand out green boxes, and host school tours. |
| Town of Ponoka |
Pick up of yard/garden wastes (compostables) from all residences week s of Oct 12-22, 2004. Town equipment and employees will do a complete pick-up of these items and will compost at Town owned facility. |
| Weldwood of Canada Limited - Hinton Division |
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| Weyerhaeuser, Grande Prairie Operations |
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Saskatchewan
| Organization |
WRW Activity or Event |
| Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council |
SWRC, elected officials and sponsors will be launching WRW in the square at Saskatoon City Hall at 10:00 a.m. on Monday October 18th. Students from Ecole Victoria School will be demonstrating how many recyclables it takes to equal their weight in various materials, and also the products that are made when these same materials are recycled. The students will be joined by Mr. Oil Drop (the Used Oil Materials mascot) and refreshments will be served. |
| Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council |
We will challenge Saskatchewan to 'Recycle your Weight' during the week. |
| Canada Revenue Agency |
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| Crown Shred & Recycling Inc. |
We are holding our 3rd annual Open House on Saturday October 23rd from 10am –2pm at 225-6th Ave. E. in Regina. Come and see what we do with your recyclables. Cosmopolitan Community Centre is serving lunch. |
| SaskTel |
We plan to improve employee awareness about and recycling and waste reduction throughout the corporation by visiting ten centres in the province. |
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Manitoba
| Organization |
WRW Activity or Event |
| Resource Conservation Manitoba |
During the week, we will hold our "Caught in the Act" contest, where members of the public who are 'caught' doing good acts for the environment (e.g. using a reusable mug, recycling, green commuting, etc) will be rewarded with a prize. There will also be an on-line component, "Turn Yourself In" to ensure that Manitobans from across the province can participate. There will be a number of Enviro-Spies on the lookout from Red River College and the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg. |
| Barry Tobin - Individual |
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| Cathy Gagnon - Individual |
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| CKLQ |
We plan to recycle more. |
| Chantal Nadeau - Individual |
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| D-JAYS Restaurant |
We recycle all our cardboard, glass and plastic. |
| Donalda Johnson Designs |
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| East Side Planning Initiative - Dept of Conservation, Government of Manitoba |
Ongoing waste reduction efforts include: recycling all paper including newspapers, office materials; using washable coffee cups, etc, in our kitchenette; recycling all cans and pop cans or bottles; sharing a newspaper with 4 staff; walking to all meetings whenever possible. We also have individuals in the office who take public transportation on a regular basis and others who car pool. |
| Helen Betty Osborne Iniwi Educational Resource Center |
We are having a poster contest incorporating ideas for Waste Reduction. There will be winners for N-K, 1-2, and 3-4. We are also having a Waste Free Lunch Challenge where we will mass the individual classroom lunch waste for the 18th-22nd of October for grades 1-4. There will be a class prize. The 18th of October is also the start date for our ecology/recycling club called Keepers of the Earth or askiy pamihtawin. |
| Jack River School |
We are having a poster contest incorporating ideas for Waste Reduction. There will be winners for N-K, 1-2, and 3-4. We are also having a Waste Free Lunch Challenge where we will mass the individual classroom lunch waste for the 18th-22nd of October for grades 1-4. There will be a class prize. The 18th of October is also the start date for our ecology/recycling club called Keepers of the Earth or askiy pamihtawin. |
| Kristina Farmer - Individual |
I will continue with my composting and recycling. |
| Glenelm School |
Each morning student council will read announcements about waste reduction from the WRW School resource kit. Each class will also participate in a recycling challenge to see who can recycle the most paper during the week! |
| Grant Park School |
The Grant Park Environment Club has a Waste Reduction Week information table with recycling bins set up during the lunch hours for the entire week. Recycling bins are also set up in classrooms and over the entire school. |
| Jackie Avent - Individual |
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| Jill Johnston - Individual |
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| Lindsey Wiebe - Individual |
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| M. Harms - Individual |
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| Marlene Robins - Individual |
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| Minto School |
The week prior to WRW we took one day, collected all the garbage from our school lunches into a clear garbage bag, and sealed it. We chose the date of October 19th to bring a litterless lunch to school. We will then look at how much garbage we can avoid with this one imitative. |
| Nelson P. Morrison - Individual |
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| Pat Williamson - Individual |
At home I rake all leaves and garden debris and compost; reuse plastic grocery bags for packaging materials; recycle all paper such as newspapers, junk mail, envelopes; call junk mail senders to be removed from their mailing lists; recycle magazines- give to other friends; order meat and chicken in bulk; recycle cans, pop cans and bottles; send styrofoam materials to nearby daycare for crafts; use cloth bags for shopping; use washable dishes; no paper plates!
I also have energy efficient appliances in my home. I have installed a new furnace to reduce costs and fuel consumption; installed new energy efficient windows to reduce heating costs and fuel consumption; caulked all doors and windows for drafts; shut off all lights when no one in the room; save up laundry to make full loads; run the dishwasher only when it is full; ride the bus or walk to all appointments - dentist, doctor, hair salon, etc. |
| Robert Buss - Individual |
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| Rockwood School |
Rockwood School has asked all children and parents to participate in Waste Reduction Week - with handprints on banners for children who walk or bike to school, Wasteless Wednesday - eat a waste free lunch, weighing garbage and recycling in our lunch program as well as an activity day. The school has also started a vermi-composting program and recycles all milk cartons. |
| St. Augustine School Green Team |
Our Green Team consists of eight people from our Grade 4 class who go around to each classroom at the last recess of every day. Each day a new eight member go around and empty the 3 recycling bins from each classroom. One bin is for paper, one for plastics, metal cans, glass, or milk cartons, and the final one is for the composter. There are no garbage cans in any of our classrooms and nobody misses them at all. |
| Susan Mukosayi - Individual |
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| Tanners Crossing School |
We have a trip planned to Evergreen Recycle and our Wasteless Wednesday garbageless lunches. |
| Town of Churchill |
We will hold a community awareness campaign through public notices, TV and posters. |
| University of Manitoba - Dept of Education |
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| Wayne Johnson - Individual |
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Ontario
| Organization |
WRW Activity or Event |
| Recycling Council of Ontario |
Waste Reduction Week 2004 will be officially launched at a public event to held on Tuesday October 19th from 9am - 11am in Queen’s Park, Toronto. |
| Recycling Council of Ontario |
The 2003/2004 Ontario Waste Minimization Awards will honour Ontario leaders who have made significant contributions and achievements in waste minimization. The Awards will be held at Woodington lake Golf Club on October 21st. |
| Recycling Council of Ontario |
To help kick-off the business specific aspects of Waste Reduction Week, during the entire month of October, RCO will be providing free waste assessments designed to introduce companies to the concepts of waste reduction and the auditing process. Companies who register for WRW will be eligible for the assessments on a first come first served basis. Once the month of October is completely filled, these assessments will still be provided at a nominal fee. |
| 7th Oakville Girl Guides |
Will profile Waste Reduction Week at our guide meeting. |
| Adrienne Clarkson Elementary School |
We are participating in a program called EarthCare which is beginning next week. We recycle, encourage garbage-less lunches and do yard-cleanups. |
| Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Avon Maitland District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Barrhaven Public School |
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| Bayview Public School |
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| Birchbank School |
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| Bishop Tonnos High School |
We will hold a poster contest, trivia contest and a cleanup contest |
| Blue Mountain Resorts Ltd. |
Since Fall 2003 environmental emphasis at Blue Mountain Resort has revolved around waste management. The rationale behind developing a waste management program was to reduce and where possible eliminate waste through rethinking, recycling and reuse initiatives. Great efforts have been made to improve the infrastructure available for both the staff and guests to recycle, as well as adding and improving signage. Projects that have contributed immensely to the success of our program include an industrial composting program as well as Sort @ Source our hotel room recycling program in the village. This summer we introduced a new outdoor recycling look through the addition of outdoor multi-sort recycling bins. We chose units that were constructed from recycled milk jugs to help complete the recycling circle and create markets that will keep recycling programs working. Goals and projects for the upcoming year include: continuing to improve and refine our waste management program and drafting a purchasing policy that incorporates our environmental priorities. |
| Bluewater District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Brantford Christian School |
In each classroom as well as the staff lounge we have recycling containers for paper, plastics, cans, glass jars and compostables. At the end of the day, we have a team of three students that collects all of the recycling and a team of two students who collect the compostables for the compost pile. We have been doing this for years because we teach the children that we are all earth keepers; we therefore reduce, reuse and recycle. We have a recycling bin for paper and invite parents to bring their newspapers, magazines and advertising flyers to this bin; the collection company pays us for these materials which helps to fund other environmental programs. We encourage the children to bring food to school in washable, reusable containers so that we don’t end up with too many garbage bags filled with food packaging. The student council has a year round pop can race and twice a year we are able to sell these cans to an aluminium recycler. We also collect all the lost and found clothing in the school and a parent washes items for donation to a local charity store. |
| Brownridge Public School |
Classroom education, work with school environmental club, keeping track of recycling implementation in school. |
| Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Bruce Power |
Our ongoing Waste Reduction initiative is to set up a Waste reduction Program in the local schools. We are also going to set up programs in the local communities and grocery stores to try to minimize waste. |
| C.D. Farquharson Public School |
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| CAMI Automotive Inc. |
We will conduct Plant wide waste assessment, hold a Waste Reduction Challenge for employees and promote waste awareness including reduction, recycling, composting etc. |
| Canada Law Book Inc. |
Waste Reduction Day - Wednesday October 20
Free lunch - bring your own plates, cups, cutlery. Waste reduction quiz to raise awareness (with prizes). Speaker from our paper recycling provider. |
| Cardinal Carter Catholic High School |
I will do a display for the Library - we do use recycle bins throughout the school. It is picked up by a team of students regularly from the rooms and then by the Board. |
| Carleton University – The Biology Society |
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| Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario |
We will disseminate Waste Reduction Week materials and resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Cathy's Crawly Composters |
Worm Composting Demonstration - How to convert organic matter into a wonderful soil enhancer with nature's recyclers. |
| Central Eglington Community Centre |
Our camp is planning a theme day on recycling and the benefits it has to the environment and humans. We also encourage staff and the children to used recycled resources as much as possible. |
| Charles H. Hulse Public School |
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| Christ the King School |
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| Churchill Heights Public School |
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| City of Barrie |
Teacher's "Fix it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do or Do Without!" Waste Reduction Resource Workshop and tour of the City of Barrie Environmental Centre and Landfill (Tuesday, October 19). This program is a joint venture between the City of Barrie Environmental Waste Management Section and the Simcoe County District School Board.
"One Less Plastic Bag" Canvas Bag promotion at a local Zehr's Grocery Store (Thursday, October 21 - Saturday, October 23). 5,000 Canvas Bags will be distributed and City staff will be promoting waste reduction public education.
Launch of Elementary School "Waste Reduction Theme drawing contest - Too Good to Waste" for the cover of the City of Barrie's Waste Reduction and Community Information 2005 Calendar and a truck mural for the school boards recycling collection truck. Winners to be selected by Council. This contest is a joint venture between the City of Barrie Environmental Waste Management Section and the Simcoe County District School Board. |
| City of Brantford |
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| City of Hamilton |
Our Waste Reduction Task Force, made up of public members is planning to host a serious of events that take aim at how to reduce: at the grocery store, at work, when travelling, at school, at play, at home, and in the community - one theme for each day. |
| City of Kawartha Lakes |
A display will be placed in the Lindsay Square Mall. A paper bag campaign will be mailed to all residents encouraging them to bring there printer cartridges or cell phones to any of the designated drop off location for recycling and they can enter a draw for a free composter. Kids under 14 years of age can enter our recycled art contest and prizes will be awarded. |
| City of Kingston |
The City of Kingston is celebrating 15 years of the Blue Box in 2004. Our Waste Reduction Week activities will include a poster contest for elementary schools and a "Top 15 Reasons to Recycle" contest for high schools. The week will culminate with an open house at our recycling facility. The City of Kingston is also currently investigating Source Separated Organics as a way to increase our diversion rate. |
| City of Ottawa - Solid Waste Services |
Launch of City of Ottawa's 7th edition of the "Take it Back!" directory, a product stewardship initiative which lists over 450 retailers in Ottawa which have agreed to voluntarily take back over 65 different products for reuse, recycling or proper disposal. |
| City of Stratford |
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| Coe Hill Public School |
We are encouraging classrooms to continue participating in paper, tetra cartons, plastic bags and box board recycling. We also have donated furniture as well as a typewriter to our local Seniors Centre for resale, which were no longer used by the school. |
| CompuCorps Mentoring - reBOOT Ottawa |
reBOOT Ottawa, a non profit service of CompuCorps Mentoring, will hold a recycled computer distribution event, Let s reBOOT Ottawa!, on Saturday October 23rd from 10 - 4 PM as part of Waste Reduction Week in Canada. We champion the re-use of technology, the reduction of electronic waste and the elimination of the digital divide. We carry out our mission by soliciting donations of reusable computer equipment from both the public and private sectors, refurbishing it and then distributing to other registered charities and their clients for a small administrative fee.
Let's reBOOT Ottawa! will make hundreds of recycled, refurbished computers and laptops available for low cost sale. It is being held at St. Paul s-Eastern United Church at the corner of Cumberland and Daly in Ottawa. The Minister of Culture for the government of Ontario, The Hon. Madame Meilleur, representing Vanier, has been invited to attend the official launch which is set for 11:30 a.m. Hundreds of used computers, laptops and accessories have been collected and refurbished by CompuCorps Mentoring s computer volunteers over the summer. CompuCorps Mentoring welcomes everyone at this Let s reBOOT Ottawa! event. Browse, have a coffee, and pick up a low cost desktop computer or laptop and support the reduction of waste and computer reuse. We will be providing information on electronic waste recycling and will provide copies of the Take it Back directory coordinated by the City of Ottawa. (N.B.: This event will not be collecting nor accepting any donated computers). Interested volunteers or companies are asked to contact us at (613)234-8988 or through our website by visiting: http://www.rebootottawa.ca |
| Confederation School |
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| Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boreales |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Conseil scolaire de district du Centre Sud-Ouest |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Grandes Rivieres |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Corporation of the County of Renfrew |
We are planning to promote two new web sites: A Business and a Household Online Materials exchange. The focus is on reducing the amount of waste being sent to our landfills. |
| County of Simcoe |
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| County of Wellington |
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| Crawley Home School |
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| Degradable Plastic Products Inc |
Degradable Plastic Products Inc. (DPPI) has a solution to the disposal of plastic waste that is consumer-friendly, safe, and inexpensive. Our revolutionary d2w technology is designed to cause flexible plastics to degrade completely and harmlessly in as little as 60 days or as long as 5 - 18 years, depending on the requirements of the product. |
| Delhi Public School |
Currently my special ed. class does the "blue box" recycling for our school. We also pick up garbage on the playground. Our class challenged the entire school to bring a "garbageless" lunch on Earth Day. The school actively participated the winning class received an extra 40 minutes in an outdoor activity with my class. The teacher earned a well deserved break. |
| Derby Public School |
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| District School Board of Niagara, Niagara Catholic District School Board, Conseil Scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest, Conseil Scolaire de district Catholique Centre-Sud |
Waste reduction presentations via school assemblies before and during WRW. Recycling plant tours for students. Hosting Contest: Schools qualify to win vermi composter for WRW initiatives. Forwarded web page poster to all 210 schools in all boards in late Sept. Also ordered posters to distribute to schools with the Vermi-Composter contest during week of Oct 11th. |
| Douglas Academy |
Incentive for "garbageless lunch". Graphing the garbage we have in pie chart and developing a plan on what garbage to target and how to do so. |
| Downsview Park |
As part of Downsview Park's sustainability initiative we will be organizing a sustainability club for schools within our area. |
| D.R.E.A.M.S. Inc. - School for Intellectually Challenged |
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| Durham Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Ecole catholique Franco-Superieur |
On going waste reduction initiatives including recycling of paper products, all classes have a big bin (former garbage bin) for recycling paper, grade 6 students are in charge of emptying them. All classes have a small bucket for compost, all children and staff participate in composting. Grade 3 and Grade 6 students are in charge of emptying all the buckets and taking them to our 3 compost bins outside in the schoolyard. All classes recycle tetrapaks (milk and juice boxes) as well as plastic containers #1 #2. Grade 6 students pick up the recyclables from all the classes everyday. Two classes have vermicomposts in their classrooms, and children participate in taking care of them. During special meal days, Christmas dinner, hot meals the children uses plates and glasses from home. They are kept at school all year so that they are easily used. The Green committee of the school succeeded, after much research, to change the cleaning products used in the school. The janitors now use EnviroChem products, which are environmentally friendly.
Our planned WRW activities: Presentations in all the classes done by Grade 6 students on recycling and composting etc; Litterless lunches this week. We concentrated on one thing each day of the week (ex Monday: Juice in reusable containers etc); We are collecting batteries from homes in order to dispose of them properly. Any schools interested in any projects we have taken on please feel free to contact me, I would love to share some of our successes! |
| Ecole Secondaire Confederation |
Will recycle old materials to be used for new projects. |
| EcoSuperior Environmental Programs |
We will be conducting Waste Reduction Week presentations in 25 schools in Thunder Bay and distributing WRW resources to them. |
| Eganville and District Public School |
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| English Language #38 Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Essex Public School |
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| Fallingbrook Community Elementary School |
We will hold litter free lunches throughout the week. |
| First Avenue School |
The Earthcare Committee will arrange the collection of recycling throughout the week and Litterless lunch days. |
| Fitzroy Centennial Public School |
We are holding a litterless lunch campaign and Grade 4/5 visits to classroom to model proper recycling/waste disposal. |
| Franklin Street Public School |
Our school will be holding a Boomerang Lunch and encouraging paper recycling. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, Canadian Headquarters |
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. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, Canadian Regional Engineering Centre |
GM's Canadian Regional Engineering Centre promotes waste reduction and conservation through employee awareness and has implemented initiatives to conserve energy and reduce waste. CREC has an extensive recycling program that diverts paper, cardboard, wood, beverage cans, used oil, metal, scarp plastic, fluorescent light bulbs and office equipment from landfills. Additionally, printers at CREC use refillable toner cartridges. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, Electro-Motive Division |
GM Electro-Motive Division continues to have an objective related to reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill. Our annual Waste Audit is one way we measure our progress. According to last year's Audit results, our diversion rate is 90%. Some of GM EMD recycling programs include: wood, cardboard, paper, beverage containers, fluorescent lighting, batteries, scrap metal, waste oil, kitchen organics. For this year's Waste Reduction Week, we communicate to both plant and office personnel through our Greenline Newsletter and emails which include helpful 'Did You Know' information. We will also hold a presentation from City of London Environmental Services Department; and an Energy Efficiency Presentation. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, St. Catharines, Components |
The GM Components Plant, already recycling 96% of generated waste, undergoes continual improvement with respect to waste reduction initiatives and awareness. New 2004 plant recyclables include ferrous grinding swarf, plastic shrink wrap/film and miscellaneous assembly line plastics. An extensive program is in place to recycle all steel and iron chips associated with machining and gear cutting processes; and plant wide recycling programs exist for paper, beverage containers, wood, cardboard, batteries, oil, protective clothing such as gloves and sleeves, obsolete equipment and other materials. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, St. Catharines, Engine |
The GM St. Catharines Engine Plant is strongly committed to reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill, recycling 94% of the waste generated at the facility. Through Resource Management, the plant has implemented recycling programs for metal, wood, oil, mixed paper, plastic, corrugated cardboard, and batteries office equipment, fluorescent bulbs and drums. The plant continues to seek innovative methods to its reduce waste. |
| General Motors of Canada Limited, Oshawa Truck Assembly Plant |
The Oshawa Truck Assembly Plant is constantly seeking new ways to reduce, recycle, and divert waste from landfill. Extensive programs are in place to recycle metals, wood pallets, paper, cardboard, solvents, oil, batteries, fluorescent lights, tires, automobile glass, computers and plastics to name a few. Using plastic reusable containers instead of cardboard and working with suppliers to eliminate extra packaging are examples of some of the initiatives at the Plant that help to reduce our ecological footprint. |
| George Organ – Individual |
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| Glebe Collegiate Institute – TWIGS |
Recycling pick-up from classrooms, putting up notices in classrooms for turning off lights & computers, composting during lunch hour. |
| Glen Ogilvie Public School |
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| Glenhaven Senior Public School |
Creation of a recycling/environmental club in a middle school. |
| Gorham Enterprises Inc. |
Recovery and recycling of logs from City dump sites removed by forestry operations. Turning into valuable lumber for homeowners and trades. We will be starting sales from our recycling operation in October. www.urbantreesalvage.com |
| Grand Erie District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Grant Alternative School |
Recycling bins: paper, plastic, glass. Composting of lunch materials (fruit and vegetables) and we use the compost is used in the school gardens. |
| H.G. Bernard P.S. |
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| Halton District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Halton Hills Chamber of Commerce |
We would be pleased to forward any information on to our members. |
| Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Hilson Avenue P.S. |
Reuse things that are normally thrown away, e.g, turn junk into art for my Grade 5/6 class, alternative uses, etc. |
| Holy Cross School |
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| Huntley Centennial Public School |
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| Huron Superior Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Husky Injection Molding |
Husky diverts ~93% of waste from landfill annually. We are proactive in identifying opportunities to expand our recycling program. For waste reduction week we plan to promote each day's activities to our employee population. We also plan to have a waste-related presentation and hold a draw for compost bins. |
| IBM Canada Ltd. |
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| J.H. Putman School |
We have an Earthcare team that promotes and educates students and staff on waste reduction and recycling in the school and at home. Some of the activities that we participate in are:
1. Recycling program for the entire school.
2. The Golden Dust Pan award given out monthly.
2. Garbage free lunches.
3. Pop tab collection.
4. Poster contest.
5. City and school yard clean up day.
6. Computer shut off team.
7. Monitoring and distributing (one side) used photocopy paper to classrooms to use as scrap paper. |
| Jacques Whitford |
Promotion of Waste Reduction Week around the office with posters and email communications. Great job on the Business Activity Week.. next year we will try to do more! |
| Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Keppel-Sarawak School |
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| L. B. Pearson High School |
We plan to start an Environmental Club consisting of interested students with myself as staff advisor. Initially we decided to assess the amount of waste that our school generates and our recycling efforts to determine how to improve; then educate and motivate our staff and student body. Details of methods will come from club members during regular meetings. The principal will meet with us and the head custodian will be consulted because of involvement with container emptying. |
| Lakehead District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Listowel Technology Inc |
Our waste reduction week activities include an alternative way to work day, a literless lunch day and information sessions on waste reduction. On going waste reduction initiatives include a paper reduction project, recycling programs and pollution prevention initiatives. |
| London District Catholic School Board |
Each year schools promote WRW through a variety of activites: making composters, bird and bat houses, waste audits. We will also disseminate WRW resources to schools within our jurisdiction |
| Marathon High School |
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| Marymount Academy |
Announcements will be made during the week to promote waste reduction. Posters will be posted on walls. We will have a garbage free lunch. We presently have blue boxes in each classroom to recycle paper. We presently have in our cafeteria recycling for plastics, glass, juice boxes, cans. Presently, our school is part of a pilot project in which the city of Sudbury is picking up recycling at the curb. |
| Maple High School |
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| McKay Green Club |
Our plan for a waste reduction activity is to have a lunches that we can use plastic containers, and also have waste free lunches. |
| Metcalfe Public School |
Litterless lunches and school yard cleanups will be part of our celebrations. |
| Minto Urban Communities |
We have communicated the importance of WRW throughout our business and have put forward the most effective ways to encourage waste reduction by poster distribution, additional recycling receptacles, recycling tips, event ideas and created an employee challenge with a prize for the most innovative and practical idea that will encourage responsible recycling throughout our portfolio. |
| Monterey Inn Resort and Conference Centre |
Company currently in the process of ecological restructuring. Looking for ways to get more involved with community and educational opportunities for staff to further their professional and personal contributions. |
| Morrison Hershfield, Engineering Consulting Firm |
We will be participating in the City of Ottawa's "Adopt A Road" program and performing a cleanup during WRW. |
| Near North District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| New Berrigan Public School |
We plan to run programs surrounding litterless lunches, saving electricity and other initiatives involving environmental awareness. We will also hold a school wide event: yard cleanup. |
| North Augusta Homeschoolers |
Recycle plastic containers, pick up pop cans and donate to the Shriners to help sick children. Pick up beer bottles and use funds for a school outing. Use reusable containers for lunches and snacks. |
| Northwest Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| OMERS Realty Corp. |
We have several initiatives already under way due to the inception of a recycling committee consisting of our recycling handler, management team and tenant representatives. |
| Orchard Park Elementary School |
We are holding a number of events including garbageless lunches every Wednesday and an "Energy Hog" competition with booby prizes for lights being left on in an empty room. We plan to increase student awareness of recyclable items through skits and presentations, make use of city recycling where our school board recycling is unavailable e.g. diapers and milk cartons, unplug our vending machine over the holidays and we will be tracking classrooms and awarding points for garbage reduction, energy conservation, reusing materials, recycling material, schoolyard greening. |
| Orchard Park Secondary School |
Recycling Program within the school. |
| Ottawa Islamic School |
Trying to get the school as a whole to recycle and to use both sides of papers. Getting students to create art projects out of things that most families would throw away. Having students submit and do assignments electronically to reduce paper use. Also teaching parents about prepackaged foods and alternatives to juice boxes and single packaged snacks. |
| Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre |
The OVWRC is a waste management facility in partnership with Petawawa, Pembroke, Laurentian Valley, North Algona Wilberforce and Sebastopol Ward of Bonnechere Valley. To celebrate WRW we are holding a Drawing Contest. We will invite students (Grades 1 -12) from the Schools in our area to submit drawings/pictures that promote recycling and proper waste management. The winning entries will be selected during WRW and appear in a Calendar. We will also be holding a Get Caught Recycling contest where staff will out on the streets looking for people recycling and award them a prize. |
| Our Lady of the Valley School |
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| Parkwood Hills Public School |
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| Parliament Hill - Ottawa |
Via Partners for a Green Hill (Senate, House of Commons, Library of Parliament and Public Works) we will be disseminating information concerning Waste Reduction Week throughout our parliamentary buildings and encouraging the implementation of new initatives and current practices to promote the reduction of waste and recycling to employees of all institutions. |
| Peel District School Board |
We will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Princess Elizabeth School |
Classroom composting, recycling of fine paper, recycling of cans, bottles, and tetra boxes, reusing pudding and applesauce plastic containers, reusing plastic bags, reusing cardboard cylinders in art class. |
| Prima Tech Canada Inc |
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| Public Works and Government Services Canada |
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| Quinte Mohawk School |
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| Quixtar Canada Corporation |
Quixtar's Enviro Committee & United Way Team, partner to encourage employees to recycle regift items to the United Way Silent Auction fundraiser.
Lug-A-Mug -- Employees received coupons for complimentary beverage if they bring in their own mug from the cafeteria.
Share-A-Ride -- Employees are encouraged to carpool, walk, run or bike to work and are awarded prizes for their participation.
Bingo -- Employees are encouraged to play Enviro Bingo and prizes awarded to full cards. Squares including recycling initiatives and their respective participation.
Koats for Kids -- Drop off boxes are set up for employees to bring in used coats, jackets, etc. for donation to the underprivileged in the city.
Awareness of our ongoing Recycling programs: Eyeglasses Lenscrafter Gift of Sight program, batteries, cellphones & ink cartridges for Food Bank, used items for cats and dogs shelters and Goodwill box on site. |
| Region of Durham Waste Management |
We will work with local schools to promote waste reduction through presentations. |
| Region of Peel - Waste Management |
Educational display in the lobby of 10 Peel Centre Drive, daily quiz’s for employees, providing waste management presentations throughout the community. |
| Renfrew County Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| >Rideau Environmental Action League (REAL) |
"Rediscover the REAL Reuse Centre" Promotion on Saturday, October 23, from 9:30 to 12:00 at the Reuse Centre, end of Johnston Street, Smiths Falls. Refreshments and draw for gift basket of reused goods. The centre is a place for the free exchange of used household goods, open every Saturday 9:30 to 12:00 and now Wednesdays, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. We are also a drop location for used cell phones and print cartridges, which are then recycled. |
| Rideau Regional Centre |
We develop a week-long schedule of activities which correspond with themes. We usually have a dance, displays and contests. |
| Riverdale Collegiate Institute |
We already do weekly school-wide recycling. There is the possibility of a garbage/recycling audit within the school during WRW. |
| Robert Bateman Public School |
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| Roselands Junior School |
Display of green/grey/blue bins with accompanying info in several languages - front entrance of school. Special education class picks up playground litter every day. Entire school to participate in litterless lunch week with goal to make litterless lunches ongoing. |
| Russell Langmaid P.S. |
We are holding a litterless lunch, graphing waste reduction, awareness assemblies, school and class waste reduction challenges. |
| Ryerson Community Primary School |
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| Saugeen District SS |
Our school has developed a partnership with Bruce Power to participate in the Waste Reduction Week together. Our school will be hosting a waste reduction slogan contest sponsored by Bruce Power. We are also receiving waste reduction pamphlets and information packages to distribute to each home room to try to increase the student's awareness of waste reduction. We are also planning to continue with our EXTENSIVE recycling program and "Paper Project" for this year. |
| Sawmill Creek Elementary School |
Ongoing recycling program and Litterless lunch days throughout the year. |
| Seekers of Knowledge - Home School |
Discussions about the benefits and consequences of waste reduction. |
| Simcoe County District School Board |
We will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Solestrom Swimwear |
We recycle waste fish skins into unique, eco-friendly fish leather swimwear. See our designs at our website, www.solestrom.com. Our design process uses only natural and recycled materials, and all fish skins are waste from Canadian processing plants. |
| Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre |
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| St. Clair Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| St. Elizabeth Seton School |
We already have a recycling program for both drinking boxes and fine paper. We are trying to decrease the amount of waste, specifically paper, used in the school. We have reusable bins in each classroom and encourage use of this paper before it goes into recycling. During Waste Reduction week, we will be making daily announcements using information from the WRW School Resource Kit to increase awareness as well as hold a garbage less lunch day on Thursday. |
| St. Francis Catholic School (Princeton) |
Challenging students to have litter-free lunches. On Wednesday, student council will see who has the least garbage from lunch. We will hold a Community garbage clean-up and a ‘Neatest Recycling Bins’ competition. |
| St. James the Greater School |
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| St. Joseph School |
Daily recycling, school clean-up, school church clean up We also take part in cleaning up part of the friendship trail and we are a drop off site to recycle ink cartridges. We are trying to start a no idling program at our school |
| St. Leonard School |
We are trying to achieve 250 environmental activities this year. On-going are recycling programs which include paper, stamps, ink cartridges and and pop tabs. Environmental activities are on-going throughout the year. |
| St. Michael's Catholic School |
School-wide recycling with proper sorting and further waste reduction. Also planning school-wide composting. |
| St Paul Catholic Secondary School |
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| St Thomas of Villanova College |
Our school has had an environmental club for the past two years and has successfully implemented a recycling program. This has eliminated a significant amount of paper, cans, cardboard, and plastic that previously went into the garbage. We have also increased awareness significantly among our student body and participation is high. |
| Sudbury Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Teknion Office Furniture |
Our waste diversion plans started with the implementation of ISO 14001, three years ago. The tool has given the corporation exposure to the cost of waste, since then the waste diversion rate is above 60 % and the total waste reduction (landfill + recycling) has gone down 15% (1000 tons for 2004). We will continue to use this program for our waste reduction week and to take waste diversion to another level. |
| Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Tom Longboat Jr. PS |
We will hold a daily contest on the announcements regarding 3Rs, waste reduction, etc. There will be a sign up for the ECOSchools Club/Committee by staff & students and we will also host a yard clean up. |
| Town of Georgina |
As a community, we plan on advertising this event to promote litter/garbage problems, identify "hot spots" and erect anti litter signs, promote a cleanup throughout our town, involve the local schools to promote anti-litter as well as other activities and contests such as litterless lunch days. |
| Town of Kearney |
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| Town of Mississippi Mills |
Fall Pitch In week, we will be asking the community to help in cleaning up the road sides, park, schools etc. Also sending out a brochure to all residents informing them of Waste Reduction Week, what the can do to help, offering a discount on composters, blue boxes and kitchen composters for the week only. |
| Town of Newmarket |
We will be selling blue boxes for 1/2 price and our composters at a reduction. |
| Township of Greater Madawaska |
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| Township of Lanark Highlands |
We have promotions planned utilizing a display area of recycle materials, posters and handouts/brochures. |
| Township of McNab/Braeside |
The Township will be providing one free blue box to all residential households. By doing so the township is encouraging the recycling of more items. |
| Trillium Elementary School |
We recycle paper, cans and plastics. Last year our EARS (Environmental Action Representatives) checked recycle bins weekly to ensure they were not contaminated. We had a contest that lasted for several months to see which class recycled best. A large bar graph was visible to all. We are a part of SEEDS program. The SEEDS trophy is awarded daily to classes taking part in environmental projects, recycling included. We had a contest for a design for a cloth bag, which was then purchased with the recycling logo, and sold to the community. The bags could be reused, rather that using and throwing out plastic bags. |
| University of Guelph |
Launch of a new sustainability website and the Lug-A-Mug campaign. |
| University of Guelph - Environmental Science Student Executive (E.S.S.E) |
We will be running a interactive display in out student center about the 3 tier waste system we have here in Guelph. Promoting the proper method of is use. As Prizes we will be giving out re-usable lunch tupperware. |
| University of Guelph – Physical Resources |
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| Upper Grand District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Vincent Massey Public School |
A number of different recycling activities. |
| Waterloo Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Willow Glen School |
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| Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board |
Will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
| Woodville Elementary School |
Junior division-wide waste reduction activities to raise awareness among school and school community. |
| York Catholic District School Board |
We will disseminate resources to schools within our jurisdiction. |
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Quebec
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| CDA/DLP – Supplemental Education |
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| General Vanier Elementary School |
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| The Original Bottle Cap Lure Company |
This Company recycles bottle caps from bars and restaurants. They make functional fishing lures with them. A new way to recycle metal. Websites to visit include http://hookedonrecycling.tripod.com www.bottlecaplure.com |
| Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
It will be a week of activities: conferences, movies, formation, workshop and art with waste This year, we going to do our activities the 24th of October to the 30 of October 2004 for the provincial waste reduction week, but I would like to get information for the national week (18 to 24 of October). |
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Newfoundland/Labrador
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WRW Activity or Event |
| Central East Health Care Institutions Board |
Plans for WRW include messages/memos, waste reduction tips, and a fun quiz for staff to help promote waste reduction. Ongoing waste reduction activities include the promotion of reduce, reuse & recycle initiatives, as well as proper waste segregation and disposal. |
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New Brunswick
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WRW Activity or Event |
| Valley Solid Waste Commission |
The Commission is launching the expansion of its regional recycling program. Plastic code #1, 4, 5 can now be recycled with the #2 plastics. Office paper can now be added to the newsprint. Other recyclables accepted at the community recycling depots include corrugated cardboard and boxboard and food cans. To promote the regional recycling program, the Valley Commission will be holding a "Valley Recycling Day" at three depot locations with a ribbon cutting ceremony at each site with dignitaries, local fire fighters will serve BBCued hot dogs and refreshments, live radio broadcasting, prizes. A newsletter will be distributed to 15,000 households to inform the public of the program expansion. There will be radio call-in contest with callers asked to answer a question about the recycling program. |
| Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation |
Reusable Grocery Bag Give-Away: The Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation will be handing out reusable cloth bags at the local Co-op stores on Wednesday, October 20th. Stores include Mapleton Rd., Record St., Shediac, and Sackville. Limited quantities available.
Recycled Computer Donation: Through pre-registration of Wet/Dry Program presentations or tours, the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation will be donating a recycled computer to a school within School District #1 or #2. This donation will promote the Corporation's Electronic Recycling Program. Residents and businesses are reminded to dispose of electronic equipment in good working condition to their local NB Computers for Schools Program and end-of-life equipment at the Westmorland-Albert Waste Management Facility on Berry Mills Rd.
OPEN HOUSE: Residents are invited to attend the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Management Facility’s Open House on Saturday, October 23rd from 10AM - 1PM. Think beyond the curb! Come learn and see first-hand what happens to your waste. Success is in our community! |
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Nova Scotia
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WRW Activity or Event |
| Clean Nova Scotia |
"Just Between Families" contest will once again challenge Nova Scotia families to produce the least amount of garbage during the first full week in October and to share their waste reducing strategies. The winning family will receive a weekend package for four at Liscombe Lodge. |
| Clean Nova Scotia |
Reusable Halloween Treat Bags will be distributed to schools across Nova Scotia courtesy of Waste Management of Canada to encourage waste reduction among our younger generations. |
| Clean Nova Scotia |
The 2004 Waste Reduction Week Business Breakfast will be hosted in the Arcadia Ballroom by the Casino Nova Scotia Hotel again this year. The breakfast commences at 8am. Hon. Kerry Morash, Minister of Environment and Labour will be giving opening comments and Ron Colman of GPI Atlantic will be our guest speaker. Members of the Halifax business community are invited to attend. Please call 420-3474 or email
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| Clean Nova Scotia |
Participants in out Community Swap exchange their unwanted items such as linens, books, plants, furniture, clothes and toys for items they find more useful. This year, Clean Nova Scotia is organizing a swap at the Halifax Forum. |
| 1st Windsor Forks Brownies, Girl Guides of Canada |
We will hold a road side clean up. |
| Bayview Education Centre |
We will hold week long information sessions, booths/educational displays and more! |
| Chris Hadfield Public School |
Students from each of the Grade 1 - 8 classes are part of the environmental club and are responsible for the recycling of paper, glass, plastics in their classrooms. The students are going to maintain the newly planted flower beds at our school |
| Eastern Region Solid Waste Management |
On October 21, a display with solid waste reduction information for businesses will be set-up at the Business Expo to take place at the Mulgrave Firehall between 5:30 - 8:30 pm. October 22nd, members of the Eastern Region Solid Waste Management Committee will be collecting litter from a 25km stretch of highway between Monastery and Boylston under the Adopt a Highway program. |
| Eskasoni High School |
We will have a Bottle Drive and promote paper recycling. |
| Halifax Regional Municipality |
10% Challenge - Residents can send postcards to Breakfast Television with tips on how we can divert more waste away from our landfill. Grand prize is a new computer from PC Medic! Watch BT for details.
Visit us at displays in the Bedford and Sackville Superstores on October 21st to learn how you can be a 'Green Consumer'. Enter the draw for a chance to win a great prize package.
Are you setting out your blue bags and green cart as scheduled? If so, you could 'Get Caught' by one of our curb side monitors and receive a great prize. |
| Marion Leightizer - Individual |
I plan to reuse all zip-lock sandwich and freezer bags. Instead of putting out my newspapers, to be collected, I use them to light my wood stove, this also reduces the use of oil (wood stove). I buy my meat at the meat counter, thus cutting down on packaging. |
| Pictou County Solid Waste |
During the week, we will host a Get Caught Radio Contest. Monday October 18th we will be have a Blue Box giveaway to all businesses. On the Tuesday, we will host a Book Swap at East Pictou Middle School. Wednesday October 20th we will thank our haulers at the Appreciation Day Barbeque and on Saturday the 23rd there will be a Superstore Display and Grade 3 & 4 Brown Bag Contest. |
| Resource Recovery Fund Board of Nova Scotia |
ENVIRO-DEPOTT CONTEST - Residents are encouraged to visit their local ENVIRO-DEPOTT during Waste Reduction Week for a chance to win a prize. This year the theme will focus on the Nova Scotia Paint Recycling Program - "Give Your Paint a Second Chance!" Residents can fill out a ballot to win a prize.
"GET REWARDED" RADIO CONTEST - RRFB Nova Scotia and municipalities from across Nova Scotia will be looking for residents who are "doing good' for the environment. A radio ad will bring attention to their efforts as educators hit the streets to reward residents who are recycling, composting, carrying a cloth bag, using a reusable mug, etc. So get involved in some kind of eco-friendly activity - you may win a prize.
BUSINESS VISITS - Waste reduction educators from across Nova Scotia will be visiting businesses throughout Waste Reduction Week to spread the message of the 3R's - REDUCE - REUSE - RECYCLE and composting. Educators will be offering blue boxes and free advice on waste diversion programs. If you would like a visit at your business, contact RRFB Nova Scotia for the name of an educator near you!
NS RECYCLES CONTEST - Open to students in grades primary to 12. Over $28,000 in prizes for students and their schools. Contact RRFB Nova Scotia for details. www.rrfb.com or 1-877-313-RRFB |
| Strait Regional School Board |
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| Sunningdale Public School |
On-going waste free lunch programme, drink container recycling, reduction of paper usage and an emphasis on water and energy conservation. |
| Wanda Horne - Individual |
I plan on picking up all the garbage on my road in Shelburne County. |
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Prince Edward Island
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WRW Activity or Event |
| Island Waste Management Corporation |
"Waste Reduction Week Challenge for Families"
IWMC wants to hear what families have initiated to reduce waste in their households over and above their participation in Waste Watch. Residents may contact IWMC by e-mail at
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; fax at 894-0331, phone 432-2525 or toll-free 1-888-280-8111. Each participant will receive canvas shopping bags (to help reduce the need for plastic) and a year's supply of blue bags (to assist with continued recycling efforts). In addition, ideas and suggestions received will be shared with other Islanders through various newspaper and newsletter updates. |
| Island Waste Management Corporation |
"Waste Reduction Contest for Schools"
IWMC is launching a contest to schools to enhance their Waste Watch and waste reduction efforts. Classrooms will be encouraged to organize events or develop and implement activities to promote the 3 R's of waste management... REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE. Classrooms will be encouraged to submit their activities to IWMC by April 1, 2005 and random draws of classroom pizza lunches will be made during Earth Day in April of 2005. Information packages will be mailed to schools during Waste Reduction Week. |
| Island Waste Management Corporation |
IWMC EMPLOYEE CHALLENGES
IWMC Wasteless Lunch Day - to be held on Thursday, Oct. 21st. Employees are encouraged to pack lunches where nothing remaining after lunch is eaten will be put in either the WASTE or RECYCLING stream. Participants may submit their names and any tips they implemented at home to achieve this success and be entered for a draw for a lunch gift certificate.
IWMC Waste Reduction Tips - IWMC Employees are encouraged to submit tips on how to reduce wastes (of any kind) in their workplace. Key advantages to reducing waste at IWMC benefit not only our environment, but in some cases could provide savings from more efficient work practices, improved morale, a reduction in expenses, and overall, would contribute to an enhanced corporate image for IWMC. Tips submitted will be entered into a second draw for a lunch gift certificate. |
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Yukon
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WRW Activity or Event |
| Raven Recycling Society |
'Sorting with Celebrities' will be held on October 21st from 12pm – 1pm. Spend this lunchtime at the Elijah Smith building in downtown Whitehorse where local celebrities will go head-to-head in a recycling relay. There’s even free coffee if you bring your own mug. |
| Raven Recycling Society |
The Waste Reduction Commitment Campaign will encourage individuals to complete a form committing to a waste reduction activity. Please check the local papers during October 18 – 24th for your commitment form. |
| Raven Recycling Society |
All classes in all schools in the Yukon are challenged in the Garbage Free Lunch Contest. Starting October 18th, the class who holds the most garbage free lunches over a 2-week period will win a cash prize. |
| City of Whitehorse |
We are having a free biodegradable bag give-away at City Hall. We will also advertise Waste Reduction Week in the City's local papers. |
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Northwest Territories
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WRW Activity or Event |
| City of Yellowknife |
We will be launching Waste Reduction Week in Canada through our City Commitment newsletter, which will be focusing on WRW information, composting, the recycling list, and a recycling directory. |
| City of Yellowknife |
We will also be visiting schools throughout the region during the week and promoting waste reduction and sustainable living. |
| City of Yellowknife |
Landfill tours will be held as part of the Waste Reduction Week in Canada celebrations. |
| City of Yellowknife |
On Monday October 18th we will provide the public with information on waste reduction, reuse and recycling at the Centre Square Mall with involvement from the City, the GNWT, the Arctic Energy Alliance, and a local curbside recycling business. |
| City of Yellowknife |
On Wednesday October 20th the City will be hosting an information night in the Council Chambers from 7-9pm. The event will focus on different aspects of waste, how they affect the environment and what people can do in their everyday life to help reduce waste. Speakers will be on hand from the City, RWED and Trout Unlimited to discuss the City’s bluefish and recycling programs, the GNWT beverage container program, and ways in which your waste may be affecting the lakes around you. |
| Inuvik Recycling Society |
October 18th – 24th, 2004 – Mailbox Handout - Each household and office mailbox in the Town of Inuvik will receive a bundle containing 10 Glad recycle bags promoting our recycling program, information brochure promoting WRW in Canada and how community members can participate, and our first time ever Recycling Directory Map – What and Where to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in Inuvik. |
| Inuvik Recycling Society |
October 18th – 24th, 2004 – Classroom Waste Reduction Presentations to schools in the Inuvik region |
| Inuvik Recycling Society |
October 18th – 24th, 2004 – Educational Displays - Sponsorship through Chevron Texaco has enabled the Recycling Society to purchase ‘green’ anti-litter, waste reduction children’s books and we will be setting up educational displays at the library and Youth Centre and offering one book per family at the classroom presentations. |
| Government of the Northwest Territories |
For every day of Waste Reduction Week, an email detailing a "waste wise tip" will be sent to all departments. |
| NWT Courts |
We have been placing empty food cans and pop cans in the City re-cycle bins. We have also donated 20 empty 2 kg coffee cans to the local playschool for re-use in their activities. |
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Nunavut
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WRW Activity or Event |
| City of Iqaluit |
The City of Iqaluit will hold a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Days from Oct 19th to Oct 22nd, 2004 |
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