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Let’s Talk Trash: Creating a plastic-free environment for pets

Let’s Talk Trash: Creating a plastic-free environment for pets

Some families are a month deep into caring for furry friends they received from Santa and others are well into pet parenting.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Safe disposal of potentially hazardous material

Let’s Talk Trash: Safe disposal of potentially hazardous material

Summer heat has arrived and with it, forest fire season. With the recent fire in our local transfer station’s construction and demolition (C&D) pile, it seems timely to spark a conversation about safe disposal of potentially hazardous material.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Household packaging during COVID-19

Let’s Talk Trash: Household packaging during COVID-19

While we lament many of the changes, and the list is long during this unique time in our history, there may yet be a few new things we’re also smiling about.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Cultivating an attitude of gratitude

Let’s Talk Trash: Cultivating an attitude of gratitude

If there was ever a time to cultivate the attitude of gratitude, it’s now. That may seem counterintuitive with so many imposed pandemic changes, but the returns of appreciation are worth the effort.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Zero waste your veggie garden

Let’s Talk Trash: Zero waste your veggie garden

Ready or not, and we’ll assume you’re the former, spring has sprung! All the green thumbs out there have been twitching for some time, and new ones are tentatively joining the ranks as we are all more prone to contemplating local resilience these day
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Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic-free dairy a simple, homemade alternative

Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic-free dairy a simple, homemade alternative

Whether it’s as a probiotic booster, a healthy snack, or a coffee creamer, dairy products can come packaged in a whole lot of plastic. With a little imagination or some time in the kitchen, this can easily be circumnavigated.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Beat the heat, not the planet

Let’s Talk Trash: Beat the heat, not the planet

Summer weather just kicked into high gear, following a very soggy June and early July. We may be enjoying our first warm lake swims and nursing sunburns, or sheltering indoors in the heat of the day.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Cabin fever to cabin clearing

Let’s Talk Trash: Cabin fever to cabin clearing

Does this time of social limitation and constricted movement around the globe have you reevaluating some parts of your life? Fewer distractions means more naval gazing, and you might just have noticed some belly lint.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic bag and takeout alternatives

Let’s Talk Trash: Plastic bag and takeout alternatives

We have been asked to adopt a long list of behaviour changes over the past months. With the major shift we all underwent mid-March, there were daily adjustments that became the new, if ever-altering, “normal.
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Let’s Talk Trash: Is recycling packaging worth it?

Let’s Talk Trash: Is recycling packaging worth it?

You may have tuned into the news this year and heard the recycling system is broken.
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