BEAR SEASON – City promotes special solid-waste containers
April 1 marks the start of Bear Smart season, and the City is reminding residents that unmanaged attractants can unintentionally attract hungry bears into neighbourhoods. [Continue]
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ENVIRONMENT – City, TNRD open year-round hazardous-waste facility
A new year-round residential household hazardous waste drop-off facility servicing Kamloops and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) free of charge is now a reality. [Continue]
GARBAGE – No major problems with garbage pickup during holiday season
Despite some concerns about the extended solid waste collection schedule over the holiday period, it was business as usual for the operators and the call centre, says the [Continue]
GINTA – We can save ourselves from being buried in our own waste
LOGICALLY SPEAKING, our waste-related problems would be much smaller if consumption would decrease to begin with. When less product is consumed, less waste is produced. [Continue]
GINTA – What is accountability worth these days?
HERE WE GO AGAIN: like some relentless zombie, the story of the forgotten trash that belongs to Canada but is currently ‘vacationing’ in the Philippines has returned do [Continue]
COLLINS – The mentality of those using backcountry needs to be questioned
I GREW UP in the northern part of B.C. I spent time on the Islands off the coast of Prince Rupert. I spent time up the Nass River Valley, Babine Lake, and many more of the [Continue]
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