[Image-1] Clear garbage bags are coming to Halifax on August 1, and you know what? You are going to love it. No. Really. In 2010, my partner and I moved to Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, where the clear bag policy was already in place. The thing is, I didn’t know about this before we moved. At […]
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Monday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Don’t rain on our parade, weather. The weekend’s damp conditions cancelled Halifax Pride’s show-stopping Dykes vs. Divas softball game. It also caused the cancellation of the first ever heritage Gathering on Gottingen Street—a sponsor-free event designed to connect Pride a bit more with the community and its roots. Both events have been cancelled outright […]
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Friday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Things got rowdy last night at a public meeting for a Lake Echo waste site. As previously noted, Lawrence Bellefontaine’s Kiann Management wants a waste processing facility on an empty Lake Echo lot so badly that the company’s already started dumping materials before any plans have been approved by the city. Neighbouring residents aren’t […]
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7 things you need to know Monday
1 If you missed it, NSCC photography instructor and bike enthusiast Ingram Barss took over The Coast’s Instagram account this weekend. Saturday didn’t provide the best weather to document the great things happening during Bike Week/Doors Open/100 in 1 Day, but Barss still ended up with some amazing shots (like the one above). If you […]
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9 things you need to know Wednesday
1 Generously, GLAD Canada is donating 400,000 free clear garbage bags to Halifax. The gifted bags will be distributed to residents in advance of HRM’s new garbage collections bylaws, which begin August 1. Regional Council voted unanimously for the reverse-corporate handout yesterday, which saves the city hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have otherwise […]
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Who’s to blame when apartments don’t recycle?
[Image-1] There’s a big waste problem slipping between the city’s cracks and winding up in the landfill. Compost and recyclables are getting mixed up with regular garbage—and the culprit is often apartment buildings. Living in a multi-unit building, you may have come across this issue. There will suspiciously be no green bins for organics, and […]
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Council review: Garbage monopoly averted
[Image-1] This week’s meeting of Halifax Regional Council was already rescheduled after Tuesday’s moderate snowstorm. Prior commitments on Wednesday meant when the meeting did happen it was considerable shortened. As such, the public will have to wait to hear discussions on stray livestock escaping from farms, cost-sharing bridge repairs, campaign finance reform, strengthening our African […]
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Halifax’s garbage wars
Heather Johnston lives within smelling distance of the Otter Lake landfill. In 1993 she bought property on the edge of a wilderness area to build a house. Two years later, the city announced it was putting the new landfill three kilometres away from Johnston’s land, a few minutes down the highway from Bayers Lake. The […]
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NXNE Day 4 and 5: The End
NXNE is now officially over and I feel like a giant skin bag of garbage. Writing will be minimal. Happy vibes will be a-plenty. Wonderful times were had. On Saturday afternoon I went to see former Haligonians (and former neighbours) The Danger Bees play in a bordello, apparently: However the band’s high-energy set cut through […]
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Garbage limit bagged
Saying they were responding to citizen uproar over proposed changes to garbage policy, Halifax councillors Tuesday voted not to hear more citizen uproar, cancelled a public hearing scheduled for that evening and instead put the entire issue off for two years. At issue were proposed bylaw changes that would tighten the garbage bag limit from […]
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The briny, grimy deeps
“I would love to see Nova Scotia do the same for marine waste as we have for on-land waste,” Lisa Kretz tells me in Clean Nova Scotia’s lunch room. She is the project officer for the organization’s marine waste project. “There needs to be more awareness and education, one person at a time.” Today it’s […]
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Plastic bag lobby wants to stay disposable
Elly May Clampett could really work a paper dress. Elly May was patriarch Jed Clampett’s daughter on The Beverly Hillbillies, a 1960s sitcom about a family of nouveau riche hicks who move to a mansion in Beverly Hills after finding oil on their land. The Beverly Hillbillies finished production before I emerged from the womb […]