All Posts Tagged With: "Waste Reduction Week"

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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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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Did you know that this week is ‘Waste Reduction Week‘? Me neither. In any case, City Hall is (re)promoting their new(ish) initiative that aims to increase recycling by 14% in an effort to divert a total of 65% of our household waste from the landfill by 2012. According to the most recent data [...]

23Oct2008 | Harvey Kirkpatrick | 1 comment | Continued