All Posts Tagged With: "recycling"
Canada Day Festivities and Closures
Kingston’s Canada Day celebrations are scheduled for Confederation Park and Grass Creek Park. A list of holiday and road closures follows below. Here’s what is going on: Red & White People Parade: Anyone wearing Canadian red and white is welcome to join this parade which departs from the Metro parking lot (at Barrie and Princess [...]
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Ban the Book
If you’re like me (as in, you live in Kingston), you probably arrived home on Tuesday afternoon to find that big, fat, yellow book on your front step. You know the one, the one hardly anyone uses anymore: the phone book. In the age of the internet, why is this archaic publication still be delivered, [...]
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More Plastic Food, Beverage Containers Now Recyclable
Last night, City Council approved amendments to the recycling program allowing for the collection of more – nearly all – household plastics. “This is going to make it simpler than ever to use the Blue Box. If it’s plastic and it is a household container or rigid plastic package, it goes in the Blue Box,” [...]
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Family Day Activities
Municipal Offices Closed & No Kingston Transit On Family Day The City and some community partners are offering a variety of Family Day activities for Monday, Feb. 21. (The holiday schedule for municipal services follows the activity listing.) At The Invista Centre Free Family Day Public Skating: Local sponsors are partnering with the City to [...]
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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 either [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 heroism, rather [...]
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