As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: We’re drowning in seas of plastic
The fossil fuel era must end, or it will spell humanity’s end. The threat isn’t just from pollution and accelerating climate change. Rapid, wasteful exploitation of these valuable resources has also led to a world choked in plastic. Almost all plastics are made from fossil fuels, often by the same companies that produce oil and […]
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Province says HRM can dump plastics in Nova Scotian landfill
The province is letting Halifax ship its garbage mountain of trash bags to another Nova Scotia dump. The department of environment announced the temporary exemption in provincial recycling law on Friday. The change lasts for six months and only applies to the Halifax Regional Municipality’s dumping of plastic shopping bags and the plastic wrap around […]