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Keele Valley Landfill - former landfill owned and used by Metro Toronto from 1983 (Toronto since 1998 to 2002) to deal with waste from all municipalities that now make up Toronto. Now sits idle until 2028 when re-development can commence. Britannia Landfill - former landfill in Mississauga, Ontario took Metro Toronto and Toronto waste. Closed ...
These three differently-coloured bins are used to sort waste in Toronto. The curbside collection systems for recyclates vary across Canada: Blue box – Ontario (excluding Toronto), British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Manitoba; Wheeled Blue bin – Toronto, Calgary, Essex-Windsor, Winnipeg; Green box – used in North York, Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario has a Green Bin program in operation since January 2010, with service to apartments and multi-residential units to follow. Peel Region, Ontario's Green Bin program began on April 2, 2007. Red Deer, Alberta; Richmond, British Columbia's Green Cart program has been around since 2009 and accepts all food scraps and yard trimmings. [11]
Jack McGinnis of Toronto helped form a community-based non-profit organization called "Is Five" Foundation in 1974. Named for a book of poetry by e.e. cummings, Is Five organized Canada's first multi-material curbside pickup of recyclable material for 80,000 households of The Beaches neighbourhood of east Toronto. In 1977, Jack McGinnis and ...
GFL Environmental waste bin. GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.Founded in 2007, GFL operates in all provinces in Canada and much of the United States, and currently employs more than 20,000 people. [2]
The Council of Canadians was founded in 1985 in the lead up to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and North American Free Trade Agreement.The Council criticized these and other international free trade agreements on civic nationalist and protectionist grounds, asserting that decision-making power about Canadian economic, cultural, and environmental policy should remain in Canada.
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Dudley Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. The town of Dudley had been a borough since the thirteenth century, being reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the ...
A Waste Connections garbage bin. Waste Connections of Canada Inc., formerly Progressive Waste Solutions, is a waste collection company, that provides non-hazardous solid waste collection, recycling, composting, renewable energy, and landfill disposal services to commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers throughout the United States and Canada.