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Heard it from a Scout: 15 things you may not know you can recycle

Now more than ever, it’s important that we reduce our ecological footprint to create a greener world for the future. Scouts Canada has always encouraged members to do their part to create a cleaner environment, whether it be through litter cleanups or leave-no-trace initiatives that encourage people to leave the surrounding environment the way they found it. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to be green, and there are so many things you can recycle!

Shop More Sustainably

Manufacturers are constantly looking for new, more efficient ways to deliver food to hungry consumers. But unfortunately, technologies that promise to bring you your grub quicker aren't always so easy on the environment. Here are some common packaging options ranked by eco-friendliness—starting with the worst offenders and working up to greener options. Every purchase counts, so by putting your dollar toward packaging that's easier on the environment, you're acting as a change-maker and influencing companies and manufacturers to do better.

Niles Music Store Hosts Free Restring Event

Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Hubbard Music in Niles Friday, July 21 at 6 p.m. Sponsored by D’Addario, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program. After college, Mark Tirabassi used what he had in his bank account to open Hubbard Music which quickly expanded to two stores. However, with his music career taking off, Mark was forced to leave the stores in his brother’s hands and hit the road to tour with bands like Collective Soul. After his return, Mark introduced rentals into the business and provided everything necessary for the young, local bands. Since then, the family-owned business’s clientele has grown to include bigger names like Tony Bennett. Mark has also written several books, posts how-to videos on YouTube and gives lessons at libraries and local businesses. Hubbard Music has been in business for 26 years.

School helps reduce landfill waste

CHARLOTTE – Oaklawn Language Academy is keeping snack pouches out of landfills. Through a free recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle and sponsored by Entenmann’s Little Bites, Oaklawn has helped the nationwide collection reach the milestone of 2.5 million snack pouches diverted from the waste stream. Along with keeping the pouches out of landfills, collectors earn points that can be redeemed for cash donations to the nonprofit or school of the collector’s choice. Donations have just passed $40,000.
Suzette Brown, a teacher at Oaklawn, has been collecting Little Bites packages with her son to improve their recycling efforts since 2012.

River & Sky gets ready to rock-and-roll

More workshops, art installations, food vendors and new sustainability efforts are in the works for both campers and day-trippers to this year’s River & Sky music and camping festival, which takes place July 20-23 at Fishers' Paradise near Field. The festival, set on the Sturgeon River, is known for featuring some 40 emerging Canadian bands over its four days, including this year’s headliners Wintersleep, Timber Timbre, PUP and Weaves. But River &Sky also works on ways to present sustainable arts, and to feature art installations by visual artists and the creations of local crafters, as well as run workshops appealing to a wide variety of ages and interests. "This year, not only do we have an amazing line-up of musicians but we also have an amazing line-up of workshops that are River & Sky inspired,” Melanie Alkins, a vendor, crafter and workshop lead for the festival, said. This year the festival has more than 20 sessions on 14 topics. They are all free for attendees. Fan favourites, such as puppetry with Kimberley Howe, morning yoga with Liz O’Hara and a movement workshop with Shannon Falconi of North Bay’s Global Groove, are returning. New skills-based workshops include fixing your bike with Stefan Poliquan of North Bay’s The Wheelhouse; canoe trip tips and tarp-tying with Carissa Bender and Meghan Walsh; how to string your guitar and proper intonation with Marc-André Dubosq; and taking a herbal walk with Miranda Martel to learn about edible plants.

River & Sky looking to be bigger and better

Expanded list of workshops, art installations and more for 2017 festival More workshops, art installations, food vendors, and new sustainability efforts are in the works for both campers and day-trippers at this year’s River & Sky Music/Camping Festival, July 20 - 23. The festival, set on the Sturgeon River at Fishers’ Paradise in the community of Field, is known for featuring some 40 emerging Canadian bands over its four days, including this year’s headliners Wintersleep, Timber Timbre, PUP and Weaves.
But R&S also works on ways to present arts sustainability, feature art installations by visual artists and the creations of local crafters, as well as run workshops appealing to a wide variety of ages and interests.

Ahead of the Curve: Designing in Sustainability from the Start

For companies and brands today, more sustainable production methods are topping lists of things to do. The uncertainty of material and vendor prices, the need to comply with a growing number of regulations and mounting evidence of environmental impacts increasingly drive change. More and more manufacturers are investing time, energy and money to fix infrastructures and further optimize supply and production chains. They have to, after increasingly finding themselves at risk for not putting forth the resources necessary to make their processes more sustainable. This is not to mention the vulnerability they incur by ignoring the growing demands of consumers who now expect transparency and CSR as a baseline.