Morinville News
Today’s organic waste is tomorrow’s clean energy
(NC) Looking for ways to reduce your carbon footprint at home? An easy way is to recycle or reuse plastics, […]
recycling
Local News
Government of Alberta looking to move to Extended Producer Responsibility on recycling
The Government of Alberta is starting consultations to design what it calls a “made-in-Alberta solution” to plastic, packaging, and hazardous household waste, taking a circular economy approach and creating an extended producer responsibility (EPR) program to reduce landfill volumes. […]
Morinville News
Letter: Users Pay – Abusers Pay More
I’ve been reading about all the concerns over changes to the changes to Alberta Recycling fees and Auto Insurance rules.
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Morinville News
Province making it easier to raise surcharge on recyclables
The Government of Alberta says it’s making it easier for Alberta’s recycling industry to set surcharges on items including paint, oil, electronics, and tires by making recycling fee changes an administrative matter. […]
Business
Sobeys to eliminate plastic bags in early 2020
Sobeys is the first national grocery chain to announce it is eliminating plastic bags. Sobeys announced Wednesday that it would remove plastic grocery bags from all its grocery stores by the end of January 2020. […]
Local News
Roseridge planning for open house and take it or leave it event this year
As a landfill site, Roseridge performs a crucial waste management function for the communities it serves. […]
Province
Provincial recycling pilot project tackles agricultural waste
Seven years after a government report found 50 per cent of agricultural producers were burning their agricultural plastics on the farm and many others were sending plastics to a landfill, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry is funding a three-year pilot program that will recycle agricultural plastics. […]
Local News
Developments across the Pacific affecting local recycling
The New Year has brought changes to the way Morinville residents recycle, as a result of developments across the Pacific. […]
Columns
Letter: Lack of communication on garbage rules upsets resident
As I drove around my subdivision Tuesday night, post garbage/recycle pickup, I was struck by how many bins hadn’t been picked up. […]
Local News
Sobeys brings bag recycling to town
Despite weekly curbside recycling pickup that helps Morinvillians keep items out of the landfill, plastic bags are one item not on the current recycling list.
Morinville Sobeys franchise owners Shaun and Susie Thompson have pitched in to help out. The local business owners have brought in the NOVOLEX Bag-2-Bag program.
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Local News
Town has opportunity to get rid of a few things
Morinvillians had an opportunity to lighten their loads on Saturday with two community events.
H&R Block brought in Iron Mountain Canada to securely shred sensitive documents. Participants also had the opportunity to learn about protecting their privacy. The annual event was free for all participants. […]
Local News
Town of Morinville conducts two-day Solid Waste Audit
A pair of ambassadors has been helping Morinville get a handle on its garbage situation.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday participants in the Recycling Council of Alberta’s Summer Ambassador program, along with a Town staff member, undertook a waste management audit. […]
Local News
Students learn about recycling on Earth Day
Earth Day turned into a week of activities at Ecole Notre Dame School. On Monday students learned about oil spills, Tuesday was protecting nature, and on Wednesday (Earth Day) it was learning about bottle recycling. Thursday’s topic is wild nature. […]
Local News
Water, sewer rates to go up, waste to remain the same
by Tristan Turner Council unanimously gave First Reading to three separate bylaws related to utilities at their meeting on Nov. […]
Local News
Morinville Council Briefs
David Schaefer, Morinville’s Director of Corporate Operations, delivered a report to Council on the topic of Alberta municipal policy on smoking in playgrounds. The report was the result of a motion by Deputy Mayor Stephen Dafoe at the Aug. 26 Council meeting to have Administration see “what other municipalities are doing regarding smoking in/near playgrounds.”… […]
Editorial & Opinion
Letter: Be creative for Earth Day
Editor:
With Earth Day upon us, and a very strange winter full of rain and extreme cold drawing to a close, now is a good time to think about the environment. It doesn’t matter whether you care about climate change, or how dedicated you are to keeping your little part of the world clean; it’s simply about changing thinking patterns. Instead of buying something new, packaged in obscene amounts of plastic, styrofoam and cardboard … […]