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Category: Recycling

blog, environment, Recycling, sustainability Posted onOctober 25, 2015July 15, 2020

Too Tart

I bought myself a yummy pumpkin tart from Terra Breads over Thanksgiving. But the liner left a bad taste in my mouth. They used to […] Read More

blog, Recycling, sustainability Posted onSeptember 2, 2015August 30, 2015

Mattress Money

My back alley is a parking lot, for more than cars. Guess people are trying to avoid the very minimal residential parking permit fee (under […] Read More

blog, compost, Recycling, sustainability Posted onAugust 12, 2015August 9, 2015

Cut Out Waste

There’s a great feature on food waste in the August issue of Alive Magazine. Here’s an excerpt, but there’s much more if you click on […] Read More

blog, environment, Recycling, sustainability Posted onJune 28, 2015June 28, 2015

Trashing the Waves

Thanks to Green Renaissance for this haunting shot of Indonesian surf champion Dede Suryana riding a wave off Untung Jawa Island, Indonesia. He wasn’t surfing […] Read More

blog, Recycling Posted onJune 26, 2015

Packed to Go

In my student years, I once created a dresser out of cardboard boxes with a bedspread thrown over it. I thought I was quite clever […] Read More

blog, community, Recycling, sustainability Posted onMay 3, 2015

Messing Up

This is what the garbage containers looked like along 4th Avenue today. So much for the new city recycling program. David’s, Starbucks, 49th Parallel, Whole […] Read More

Art, blog, Recycling, sustainability Posted onFebruary 18, 2015

Bike Arch

The weather has been so spring-like on the west coast that I am thinking about getting my bike tuned up and out on the road […] Read More

blog, compost, Recycling, sustainability Posted onDecember 26, 2014

Cutting Waste to the Bone

[youtube_sc url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frp_ZeN5_Jk&list=UU7sLiFXXvPuzxXKV_sQpHwA”] Gibsons Recycling Depot & Resource Recovery Centre has added a new piece of equipment. As of December 21, 2014, they are now accepting […] Read More

blog, community, Recycling, sustainability Posted onOctober 19, 2014October 19, 2014

A Sticky Issue

I participated in the Coffee Cup Revolution a couple weeks ago, an event put on by The Binners Project and community partners. I arrived at […] Read More

blog, community, Recycling, sustainability Posted onAugust 13, 2014

Recycle All Your Plastics

Westsiders can drop off all the plastics that don’t go in the recycling bins at a convenient depot in Kitsilano. If you miss the Thursday, […] Read More

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