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Let's Talk Trash: Zero waste your garden

Let's Talk Trash: Zero waste your garden

Ready or not, fall is here, and now is the best time to zero waste your garden before the frost starts nipping at its nose. Start outside, where the changing temperatures are most quickly felt.
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Let's Talk Trash: The first R: reduce

Let's Talk Trash: The first R: reduce

Perhaps you grew up in the era of the green mantra: reduce, reuse and recycle. Somehow, in this age of consumerism, most of the focus has remained on the last of the two Rs.
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Let's Talk Trash: Creative ways to compost

Let's Talk Trash: Creative ways to compost

If the rainy weather has dampened your courage to backyard compost, you are probably not alone. Venturing out into a downpour with a bucket of kitchen scraps can prove challenging for even the most committed zero-waster.
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Let's Talk Trash: Reusable bag options

Let's Talk Trash: Reusable bag options

Last-minute grocery shopping? Forgot your bags from home? No problem, at least not at one grocery store in Powell River.
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Let's Talk Trash: Join the slow movement

Let's Talk Trash: Join the slow movement

A new buzz word has entered the green scene, shortly on the heels of hits like “eco” and “zero waste,” that may become as ubiquitous as blockbuster films with heroes in capes.
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Let's Talk Trash: Possessions own us

Let's Talk Trash: Possessions own us

It is the season to go shopping, or so we are told. This is most definitely a time of year when we may accumulate a whole lot of wanted (and unwanted) stuff in our lives.
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Let's Talk Trash: Refrigerator food waste

Let's Talk Trash: Refrigerator food waste

About a quarter of the food we buy, we toss. We load up at the grocery store with the best of intentions to cook up a storm. A month later, we find two half-full jars of questionable pasta sauce lurking behind sour milk.
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Let's Talk Trash: Bursting the balloon

Let's Talk Trash: Bursting the balloon

This heat wave may have you brainstorming ways to cool down or even ideas for hosting a celebration outdoors. If so, balloons might be on your shopping list.
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Let's Talk Trash: Black Friday hangover cure

Let's Talk Trash: Black Friday hangover cure

In the wake of Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day, consumers and those opting out all have the chance to contemplate the merits of their choices.
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Let's Talk Trash: Plastic bag alternatives

Let's Talk Trash: Plastic bag alternatives

We have all walked into a store without our reusable shopping bags, even those of us who are the most prepared. Well intended as we may be at times, life gets in the way and can foil even the best laid plans.
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