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Also on this page we have some Eco-Links and some Eco-Articles. |
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ECO-TIP#1
Recycling Knowledge Learn what items can be recycled. Putting things in the box that don't belong there only make the job more diffuclt and costly. Also there may be some items that you are tossing in the garbage that you can be putting the recycle box. You can search your city's wibsite to find the answers. Visit these thinks: City of Ottawa Recyling Blueboxmore.ca |
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ECO-TIP#2
Recycle Cooler Keep a small cooler in your vehicle. You can use this as a recycle bin to collect all your recyclables when you are away from home. Often when you are out and about the town there are plenty of garbage bins but no recycle boxes, so keeping a recycle cooler in your vehicle will allow you to bring items home to recycle. A cooler is better than a box because it keeps the items out of sight, holds in the smell, and doubles as a drink holder. |
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ECO-TIP#3
Enviro-Bag Keep reusable enviro-bags in your vehicle for when you are out shopping. The enviro-bags are stronger and hold more than the plastic bags that vendors give out, plus they prevent all those plastic bags from ending up in the landfill. They have many other uses like keeping your dirty laundry separate from the clean clothes in your suitcase when you are away on trips. Many stores like Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire and Loblaws sell these bags. |
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ECO-TIP#4
Garbage-Grouping Instead of placing your garbage and reyclables on their own and the end of your driveway, group your garbage and recyclables together with your neighbors, so that the garbage truck makes one stop instead of two or three. This way the garbage truck will use less gas and the route will take less time which cuts down on your taxes. |
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ECO-TIP#5
Save Gas If you are not in a rush, drive 85. Your vehicle will consume less gas if you drive 85km/hr rather than 100km/hr or more. You can do this on highways where there are several lanes, just move into the slow lane and let the gas guzzlers pass by. Drving slower also reduces your risk of a serious accident. On highways with one lane however, it is safer to speed up and move with the flow of traffic. Gas guzzlers can get upset easily. |
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ECO-TIP#6
Through with Drive-Thru Get off your keester and go into the restaurant. Idling cars waiting in the drive-thru spew green house gases into the atmosphere contributing to global warming. Often times there is a bigger line-up for the drive-thru than there is inside. Besides, it's not healthy to eat in a rush, and dangerous to eat while driving. |
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ECO-TIP#7
More Stay-In, Less Take-Out Our take-out habits create lots of garbage. Chose restaurants where food is served on dishes rather than take-out containers. If you must take take-out, then chose restaurants that have recyclable take-out containers. If they don't have a recycle bin to recycle their containers, bring them back to your vehicle recycle cooler. |
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ECO-TIP#8
Reusable Coffee Mugs Bring your reusable coffee mugs to the coffee shop and eliminate the need for a take out cup. Reusable mugs have great insulation, and are easier on the hands when dealing with hot coffee. Often you will see coffee shops double up the cups to prevent you from getting burned. It's a nice thought, but very wasteful. |
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ECO-TIP#9
Don't Litter! This one's a no brainer, yet for some reason roadside trash is found everywhere! Yuck! Please keep your trash in your car until you get home or come to a gas station. Every gas station is equiped with a trash can. Tossing trash by the roadside only makes your taxes go higher to pay clean-up crews. Also, properly secure loads on your vehicle so they don't fall off! |
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ECO-TIP#10
Walk for Waste. Go for a walk and bring a waste bag with you. If you see some waste, pick it up and take it home to your recycle bin or trash can. The karma points for each piece of waste you pick up is huge, and will bring you great luck for the rest of the week, plus going for a walk is healthy, mentally and physically. In Star Wars they talk about a power called 'the force'. Its is real, and created by the good things that you do. May the Force be with you. |
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Junkyard Jonny's Walks for Waste Here are some stats on Junkyard Jonny's walks for waste in the neighborhood of Kanata, Ontario. Number of walks since Aug 1, 2008: 6 Number of items of waste: 193 Coffee cups: 57 Candy wrappers: 47 Fast food cups: 18 Sandwich wraps: 8 Plastic bags: 10 Chip Bags: 23 Miscellaneous: 30 Number of items of blue box recyclables: 174 Plastic Bottles: 114 Glass Bottles: 3 Aluminum cans: 41 Drink Boxes: 10 Milk Cartons: 6 Miscellaneous: 0 Number of items of black box recyclables: 117 Cigarette boxes: 53 Newspaper: 34 Cardboard: 13 Paper: 17 Miscellaneous: 0 Total items collected: 484 |
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Let us know if you would like your own stats posted on this site. Please send an email with a picture and
your stats. Also if you have some eco-tips, eco-links or eco-articles of your own, please send them along with pictures if you have them. |
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Blue Recycle Box -Junkyard Symphony's Youtube video about Recycling. Used Ottawa - An amazing site to buy used things. RCO - Recycling Council of Ontario. Recycling Today - The industry's news and resource centre. Green Partnership Program - Partnering with our community for a Clean Green Capital. Envirocentre - The City of Ottawa's non-profit partner for delivering energy-efficiency services. PERC - Peace and Environment Resource Centre. Ecology Ottawa - Making Ottawa the green capital of Canada. TD Friends of the Environment Foundation - Brings TD Bank Financial Group (TD), its customers and its employees together to help protect Canada’s wildlife and environment. The Story of Stuff -From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. |
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