Category: Garbage & Recycling
Skip the trash and donate your used furniture to Matthew House
(PHOTO: Volunteers move and sort donated furniture in the Matthew House warehouse.) KEY FACTS: Matthew House collects usable furniture for re-distribution to the marginalized Ottawa community, helping over 600 local…
CITIZEN: Ottawa’s garbage plan is a real stinker
Randall Denley writes in the Ottawa Citizen: People driving on the 417 to Kanata or Stittsville can’t miss two distinctive landmarks. There is the Canadian Tire Centre and on the…
Hidden treasures can be found in this week’s Spring Giveaway Weekend
(via City of Ottawa) The old adage, “one person’s throwaway could be another person’s treasure,” holds true during the Spring Giveaway Weekend, which takes place this Saturday, June 10 and…
LINKED: Waste Management scraps plan to accept Quebec garbage
CBC reports today that Waste Management is backing away from its plans to accept Quebec waste at the Carp Road landfill facility: A proposal to allow construction waste from Quebec to…
UPDATE: Waste Management “taking steps to review” Quebec garbage application
The City of Ottawa’s communications department sent this memo from City solicitor Rick O’Connor to media outlets today. Today was the deadline to request an appeal to the Ministry of Environment’s decision…
UPDATE: City will appeal MOE decision on Carp landfill service area
City of Ottawa solicitor Rick O’Connor recommended that city staff appeal a Ministry of Environment decision to allow the Carp landfill to accept waste from Western Quebec. The memo was circulated to…
Early birds can register now for GLAD Cleaning the Capital
(press release via City of Ottawa) The City of Ottawa is pleased to announce the annual GLAD Cleaning the Capital campaign will take place from April 15 to May 15.…
Carp landfill facility gets ok for Quebec garbage, despite City’s objections
As Lando said in the Empire Strikes Back… You might remember hearing back in September that Waste Management applied to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for permission to bring construction and demolition waste from…
NOTEBOOK: Landfill proposal could mean even more downtown trucks
A number of people have asked me this summer about the status of the Carp Road landfill expansion, or as Waste Management (WM) would prefer us to call it, the West…
Early birds can register now for Cleaning the Capital
(via City of Ottawa) The City of Ottawa and Tim Hortons are pleased to announce the annual Tim Hortons Cleaning the Capital campaign, which will take place from April 15…
COLA: Put the “public” back in landfill Public Liaison Committee
As one of the conditions for operating the expanded Carp Road Landfill, Waste Management had to establish a Public Liaison Committee (PLC) to “provide a forum for public concerns to…
LETTER: City’s vision for garbage stinks
“Look, we all know that garbage happens… The City of Ottawa’s performance in this area frankly stinks.” Carp Dump II has the passed the Environmental Compliance Application (ECA) and the so…
Waste Management gets Environmental Compliance Approval for expanded landfill
Waste Management has passed one of the last regulatory hurdles required to move ahead with the expansion of the Carp Road landfill. Ross Wallace, a company official, sent an email to stakeholders today to…
Community groups ask for role in landfill negotiations
(Press release from COLA.) COLA (Coalition for Landfill Accountability) wants the City of Ottawa to engage in real and meaningful consultation with residents during the negotiations of the Host Municipal…
COLA group launches new website
The Coalition for Landfill Accountability (COLA) launched a new web site today at colaottawa.ca. The web site will be a resource for residents to learn about issues related to the expansion of…