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.

The Town of Okotoks' commitment to recycling has benefited the Okotoks Food Bank. Through the Febreze Frenzy nationwide contest, which launched in March with TerraCycle and Febreze, the Town recycled pieces of home care and air freshener products which typically aren't considered recyclable.Okotoks won the contest by recycling a total of 1,724 pieces. To recognize the win, TerraCycle and Febreze awarded the Town with a $200 credit that's redeemable for cash to any school or organization.

Mississauga’s famous RBC twin towers in the Meadowvale area have diverted more than 1.5 million cigarette butts in the past three years to save the environment. Triovest, a commercial real estate management and advisory company that manages the RBC buildings located at 6880 Financial Dr. in Mississauga, runs one-of-a-kind recycling program under which it recycles cigarette waste. Every day, the cleaning staff at the site collects cigarette butts from dozens of ashtrays around the building and instead of dumping them into the garbage, stores them in a fire-rated container. Once a reasonable quantity is collected, it is shipped to the U.S. for recycling. “Recycling is the right thing to do and we do the same as most companies do on other sites in terms of recycling batteries, electronic waste, paper products, general waste and mixed waste,” said Lello Gugliucciello, general manager of Triovest. “But then we were looking for something different.”

Mississauga’s famous RBC twin towers in the Meadowvale area have diverted more than 1.5 million cigarette butts in the past three years to save the environment. Triovest, a commercial real estate management and advisory company that manages the RBC buildings located at 6880 Financial Dr. in Mississauga, runs one-of-a-kind recycling program under which it recycles cigarette waste. Every day, the cleaning staff at the site collects cigarette butts from dozens of ashtrays around the building and instead of dumping them into the garbage, stores them in a fire-rated container. Once a reasonable quantity is collected, it is shipped to the U.S. for recycling. “Recycling is the right thing to do and we do the same as most companies do on other sites in terms of recycling batteries, electronic waste, paper products, general waste and mixed waste,” said Lello Gugliucciello, general manager of Triovest. “But then we were looking for something different.”

On Saturday, June 24, we joined AquaVan 150 on their cross-Canada travels and hosted an immensely successful Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup on Petrie Island in Ottawa, in celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary of Confederation. In total, 64 volunteers joined us to clean up the island’s shoreline. Volunteers were also treated by the Friends of Petrie Island to a fantastic introduction of the island’s natural ecology, most notably an up close look at some of their resident turtle species. Together, we removed 186 kilograms of litter (roughly the weight of 372 adult female painted turtles). Way to go team! Some of the junk removed included: 271 bottle caps, 39 utensils, six tires, 309 cigarette butts and more than 1,000 tiny plastics. Our 17 bags full of rigid plastics were sent off to TerraCycle Canada’s new Beach Plastic Cleanup Program, to help recycle these hard-to-process items and prevent them from reaching landfill. This year’s most unusual item found was a satellite dish … we’re still wondering what the story behind that one is.  

Bellview Public School has won a nationwide household recycling competition.  The school in Eagle Place won $200 for the school and $100 to give to charity as part of the Febreze Frenzy recycling contest run by Febreze and TereCycle.  Bellview School recycled more than 1,000 pieces of traditionally non-recyclable air and home care packaging waste, such as trigger heads from spray bottles.  The school will receive $200 in points, redeemable for cash payment to an organization or school of choice.  The school then won an extra $100 for charity as one of three collectors randomly selected through the promotion.  Febreze Frenzy was offered in March for people, schools, and businesses throughout Canada who were already participating in the Air and Home Care Recycling Program, which is a free recycling program operated by Febreze and TerraCycle.

This month the Canadian waste and recycling management services company announced an e-commerce partnership with TerraCycle. It’s an effort meant to divert more cosmetics and personal care waste from landfills and incineration. Making the boxes and recycling service available online should mean that RecycleSmart can reach and serve more customers and divert more waste in the process. “We are ecstatic to begin a partnership with RecycleSmart since both organizations share a common mission of increasing waste diversion and offering additional recycling options in Canada,” Sunil Kaushik, senior manager of TerraCycle Canada, tells the press. “Through RecycleSmart’s website, businesses and individuals can now purchase Zero Waste Boxes to recycle many items previously deemed non-recyclable, from coffee capsules to safety equipment.”  

A number of Oshawa residents showed how much they “love their lake” by cleaning up litter in Lakeview Park earlier this month. The cleanups were part of non-profit A Greener Future’s Love Your Lake program, which takes place in more than 100 locations along Lake Ontario. Love Your Lake sees volunteers collecting litter in a designated area in their community. “Families bring their children out, we also have some seniors as well,” Rochelle Archibald, A Greener Future executive director says. “In general, it’s just people who want to get outside and take care of their community.”

RICHMOND, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RecycleSmart, a leading provider of waste and recycling management services, today announced its partnership with TerraCycle in launching an online store that offers TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Boxes. The e-commerce site is an extension of RecycleSmart’s existing services. It also offers other waste management related products like recycling bags and bins.