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Raising Green Children: Promoting an Eco-Responsible Lifestyle Early on
Adopting an eco-responsible lifestyle often begins with small gestures. Whether you’ve already changed your personal habits or you’d like to share your knowledge with the younger generation, this article offers ideas for encouraging children to develop sustainable behaviours from an early age.
Waste Sorting: It’s Easier Than You Think!
Sorting your garbage on a daily basis can seem taxing. Yet, it’s much simpler than you think it is. Whether it’s a wilted plant, a cosmetics container or a potato bag, they all have a specific place in our bins, but how do we know whether they go into recycling, composting, garbage or to the ecocentre?
Household Waste Collection Spacing in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
One of the aims of the project is to reduce the amount of waste sent to our landfill sites at source, as these are rapidly reaching maximum capacity. Spacing out garbage collection is an important change, because 85% of the waste sent to the garbage by the average Quebecer is in fact reusable through recycling, composting or even waste-to-energy recovery.
Navigating the Deposit-Refund Expansion
You may have seen posters in a nearby shop indicating new measures regarding the deposit-refund program. Or perhaps, like us, you’ve tried to understand this new management system by reading up on it. Not to worry, this short read will help you get to the bottom of it all.
Tips and Tricks to Start Composting
The good news is that there’s still plenty of room for improvement, and you can contribute to change one brown bin at a time!
What Does the Ecological Transition Mean for our Local Businesses?
How is the ecological transition going at our local shops? What are they doing to change? What are their challenges?
Behind The Scenes: Zero Waste Challenge
Many businesses have responded to the call to reduce their environmental impact as part of the Zero Waste Challenge. What you may not know is that for many of them, a lot of the work is being done behind the scenes… and with their hands in the garbage!
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