Category: Focus

One local woman wants the city to help her expand a composting project to 10 highrise buildings in Ottawa’s downtown core.

When most people think of recycling, they think about pitching their pop and soup cans or their old newspapers and cardboard into bins to be picked up on the curbside. But for some local businesses, recycling has taken on a whole new meaning.

Imagine everyone has plenty of natural resources to survive. Let’s say everyone on earth has a bundle of 1,000 ‘units’– representing enough water, timber and other resources.

Banning plastic bags doesn’t exactly fit within the 3Rs model — reduce, re-use, recycle — many have come to associate with environmentalism.