All Posts Tagged With: "recycling"

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Weekly Poll: Clear Garbage Bags

In March 2009, the City of Kingston launched the highly anticipated organic recycling program in an effort to reduce the amount of recyclable material ending up in landfills by 65 percent. About a month later, city officials announced that 35 percent of Kingstonians were using their green bins. You can interpret that number as [...]

23Aug2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 17 comments | Continued
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Moving Day

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a steady increase in the number of Queen’s, RMC and St. Lawrence students wandering around and enjoying our construction riddled downtown.  Not only is the nice weather coaxing these young scholars away from their academic pursuits, but the increased outdoor activity is also the result of classes being [...]

21Apr2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 5 comments | Continued
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Winter Tips for your Green Bin

As I write this, a very light trickle of snow is creating a majestic winter scene in Kingston, and along the northern shore of Lake Ontario.  While the flurries took a bit longer to find us this year, winter’s chilling temperatures have been with us for quite some time.  Our least favourite season brings with [...]

5Jan2010 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 6 comments | Continued
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Get Smart, Meters

When it comes to improving eco-friendly practises, Kingston has made some modest and forward thinking strides over the past year.  We’ve mentioned the introduction of the organic waste recycling program, ongoing rain barrel initiative, as well as the launch of our neighbouring wind farm, all of which have helped cast the Limestone City in a [...]

24Nov2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 14 comments | Continued
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Are We Getting Any Greener?

It has been quite some time since I last took the stage atop my environmental soapbox, but with news of Kingston’s green-ness spreading far and wide, the time has come for a brief, yet honest discussion about our stature as a sustainable community.  In a star studded, green carpet affair, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities [...]

24Sep2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 4 comments | Continued
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The Glass is Half Empty

Regular readers know that I am the de facto sixth member of the Planeteers. In the past, I’ve helped promote Kingston’s organic waste recycling program, proposed a pedestrian friendly solution for the downtown core, and echoed concerns about plastic bags and bottled water. All in all, these aren’t ground breaking feats of environmental [...]

29Jul2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 11 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

Hey there, and happy Friday. This week we welcomed Kingston’s hippest Librarian to the City, and are optimistic that once she’s nonnomadic, she might be willing to share some of her experiences as a newcomer to our burgeoning metropolis. Notice how craftily I incorporated big, fancy words in that sentence? Perhaps diction will [...]

5Jun2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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In the Bag

As of this morning’s curbside pickup, nearly half of Kingston will have had the opportunity to participate in the city’s first green bin collection.  According to stats provided by City Officials, approximately 35% of Kingstonians are using their green bins, while usage is on par with what they expected at the beginning of this initiative.  [...]

8Apr2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Green Bins Have Arrived

It’s been nearly a year since we first reported that the City of Kingston was finally embracing a Green Bin recycling program. These environmentally friendly vessels will receive our table scraps, soiled paper, and yard waste, and could help reduce household garbage by as much as 65 percent. Throughout the past week or [...]

11Mar2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 7 comments | Continued
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Friday Foto

We’ve been meaning to make a trip out to the Kingston Area Recycling Centre (KARC) to take advantage of their free facility tours, but sadly we haven’t been able to squeeze it in. Thankfully, Paul Wash put some of his images up, which show off the inner workings of KARC. These photos have [...]

27Feb2009 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued
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