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Recycling and Organics Collection - A Fast, Cheap and Easy Route to Urban Sustainability

03/29/2012 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

"Recycling and Organics Collection - A Fast, Cheap and Easy Route to Urban Sustainability", a talk by Rod Muir, founder of Waste Diversion Toronto and a national waste diversion campaigner for the Sierra Club of Canada.  Presented by CARAG neighborhood and Zero Waste Uptown.  Thursday, March 29th, 7:00-8:00 pm, Bryant Square Park, 3101 Brya

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Talking trash: the Linden Hills Source Separated Organics to Compost Program

By Karen Engelsen, TC Daily Planet
Linden Hills trash now has a higher purpose than winding up in a landfill. In the first month of its Source Separated Organics (SSO) collections program (Sept 15 – Oct 13), Linden Hills sent 17 tons of food waste to a processing facility to be turned into compost.MORE »

Curbside composting derailed in St. Paul

By Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva, TC Daily Planet
Susan Crumb grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota where her family burned, composted, or buried all their waste. She’s still highly conscious of her trash, where it came from, and where it’s going. This is why she was interested to hear about the possibility of curbside composting in St. Paul.
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