“Now, when we clear the dishes, the kids understand what can go into the compost bin and what happens to our food scraps,” she says.
According to the Green Action Centre, composting organic material produced at your home, work and school can divert up to 40 per cent of your waste stream.
“Composting keeps greenhouse gases out of our atmosphere by not sending food to the landfills.
When they were younger, I had all three of them in there and would drive them back and forth from school.
They vary in size and usually have a longer wheelbase than a standard bicycle with space for hauling cargo either in the front or back.
The findings, which were published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, were based on air quality readings from monitoring stations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, Halifax and St.
“I used to buy cheese strings and single-serve yogurts, but that’s excess waste in children’s lunches.
The campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the world’s fastest-growing environmental movements.
Last fall, Ottawa announced a ban of six single-use plastic items that are set to be phased out across the country by 2022.
Maybe you can get rid of plastic straws or replace single use coffee pods with refillable ones,” she says.
“Our dryer broke and we didn’t have the money to buy a new one so we started hanging our clothes,” she says.
Secondhand is just as good or better than going to a store and buying brand new off the shelf,” Cameron says.