Ontario’s new strategy for a “waste-free” province includes a proposal to ban food waste from disposal, instead finding “creative strategies” to recycle it. The province on Wednesday announced its new “Strategy for a Waste-Free Ontario: Building the Circular Economy,” which calls for industries to divert more of the waste they produce away from landfills, and […] Read more
Ontario waste plan to include ban on food waste disposal
It’s time to make reducing waste a top food trend
There is almost as much food thrown away in Canada as there is traded between us and our southern neighbour
Reading Time: 3 minutes I was walking in downtown Edmonton and stopped to chat with two masked protesters. The man and woman were trying to raise awareness of food waste, a huge issue in Canada. They had gone “binning” — eating out of garbage dumpsters and were able to feed themselves for that week. Canadians lead the way in […] Read more
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