It always annoys me how so many Londoners complain about the fact that the city has introduced a 4-bag limit on garbage. Our garbage and recycling pickup is on an 8-day cycle, with pickups on Monday one week, then Tuesday the next week, etc. When pickup is on a Friday, the next pickup is on the following Monday, so there's an 11-day gap. Our last pickup was a Friday, but we've also had two statutory holidays in between, which means we've had a 13-day gap. Even so, we've only got 2 bags to go to the curb, and one of them is full of diapers!
If a household of two adults and a baby can stay within the limit so easily, how come so many people have a problem with it?
Reduce
Re-use
Recycle (including compost!)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Earth Hour - March 29th, 2008
On March 31, 2007, Sydney Australia helped raise awareness of our planet's energy consumption by encouraging people to shut off their lights for one hour. This year, it's going global. I've signed up and committed to turning out the lights and any other power sources we can for an hour.
To read more info and to sign up, follow the link ... http://www.earthhour.org/user/GLFq
To read more info and to sign up, follow the link ... http://www.earthhour.org/user/GLFq
Earth Hour - Wal-Mart
Used the Wal-Mart website to submit questions to the three London, Ontario stores, asking if they will be lowering their lighting for Earth Hour.
Many cities across Canada (including London) have committed to turning off as many lights as possible during Earth Hour (29th March, 8 - 9 pm), in order to reduce energy consumption and raise awareness about our use of fossil fuels. Please could you tell me whether Wal-Mart has committed to this? Will you be lowering your lighting during Earth Hour? For more information, see the City of London website at http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Environment/earthhour.htm
Please make every effort to commit to this reduction of energy usage.
Thank you,
Caroline Lightowler
Got the automatic responses from the website, saying that I will receive a response soon. I'll post whatever response I get.
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