KITCHENER — A volunteer-run recycling program is keeping a serene, little-known city park clean and green. Area residents near Lakeside Park, a lush oasis close to St. Marys Hospital, used a city grant to purchase recycling bins for their neighbourhood park and take turns emptying them.

Innovative Walkers scheme to make significant impact in fight against waste

Wholesale favourite Walkers is set to partner with recycling company TerraCycle to launch the UK’s first nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets. Hundreds of public access collection points will be developed all around the country as part of the scheme. People will be encouraged to recycle their packets directly into these or alternatively post them for free directly to TerraCycle.

This week is Waste Reduction week in Canada. This week focuses on the principles of circular economy, resource efficiency, and waste reduction, while celebrating our environmental efforts and achievements as well as encouraging new innovative ideas and solutions – and to celebrate this week, we are sharing more than 10 green initiatives that are available right here at Yorkdale below!

After putting in my daily contact lenses, I’d already produced more waste: the packaging each set comes in. Crap! The fix: Try the biweekly version instead to cut down. Another solution? Terracycle has a partnership with Bausch & Lomb that recycles contacts, blister packs, and the top foil. You save your garbage, buy the box, send it to them, and they do the rest. Actually, now’s a great time to mention Terracycle’s partnership with Garnier, which recycles literally any hair care, skin care, and cosmetics packaging. (Is it worth it to devote the resources to ship a box of garbage across the country to be recycled? You make the call.)

I’m being haunted by a seahorse. Ever since I saw Justin Hofman's viral photo of that sad little ocean pony clinging to a plastic cotton swab, I’ve been aware of just how much plastic waste my beauty routine creates. Since the advent of plastics, humans have made 8.3 billion metric tons of the stuff. Of that, 6.3 billion metric tons have already been thrown out and 91 percent of that waste has not been recycled. I’m just one person contributing to a garbage mountain that threatens to suffocate the planet. So when Allure asked me to try a sustainable beauty routine with no single-use plastic, I was all in — as long as it wasn’t too hard.

Líderes promissores estão construindo novas alternativas na indústria da moda, nos meios de pagamento da África, no mercado de turismo à beira-mar e na coleta de reciclagem

Created in partnership with TerraCycle, the recycling program works by encouraging consumers to drop off their empty chip packets to a variety of public collection locations across the country. Alternatively, consumers can also mail the packets directly to TerraCycle to help them be transformed into a variety of different items like fence posts, benches and much more.

If you're into the spooky side of Halloween, there are plenty of fun ways to get your fear fix—going to a haunted house, slathering on fake blood or taking in the latest horror flick. But not even the most adventurous fright fans want to be scared about their family's health or the planet's come Oct. 31. That's not fun-scary, that's just plain old scary.