In preparation for a ban on putting food waste in the garbage in 2015, Metro Vancouver in collaboration with member municipalities has launched a fun-filled region-wide campaign featuring food scrap characters with the message that food scraps belong in green bins and not the garbage!..
Under new recycling rules, which come into effect Monday, glass is no longer welcome to be co-mingled in Metro Vancouver blue bins with other recyclables…
East Richmond residents are being encouraged to “go green” this Saturday by disposing of non-recyclable trash, as well as unwanted electronic goods that can be refurbished or recycled…
Metro Vancouver is sticking for now to its estimate that it will need to incinerate an extra 370,000 tonnes per year of garbage, despite concerns the regional district is poised to over-build a new waste-to-energy plant…
Burnaby’s neighbour wants to bring in an advanced material recovery and recycling facility, but the waste diversion alternative will most likely never replace incineration in Metro Vancouver…
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro Vancouver’s zero waste committee, said the positive responses MMBC claims may include many cities that…
Progressive communities worldwide have determined — as have we — that converting waste to energy is the most environmentally responsible and cost-effective means of dealing with residual wastes that cannot be avoided or diverted from disposal…
The city’s past election saw campaign spending soar to a high-altitude mark of $6-million, an amount that both local politicians and residents think is outrageous and bad for democracy. So those politicians are going to this week’s annual gathering of B.C. councillors and mayors to urge them to support a motion asking the province to put limits on campaign financing just for Vancouver…
The Province
Recycling costs and pickup of material at curbsides across British Columbia is expected to be among the hottest topics at a gathering of local government leaders in Vancouver….
Mayor Malcolm Brodie of Richmond said his city won’t sign the “draconian” contract, which doesn’t offer a partnership approach. Brodie said that as far as he’s aware, only Coquitlam has signed the deal with Multi-Materials BC while other cities in the Lower Mainland have shunned it…