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Tech

Demolishing buildings is a waste. There’s another way: deconstruction

shift the way we build and renovate our homes. People are becoming more conscious of the impact that construction and…

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Canada

Vancouver high school students create intelligent garbage cans to help sort waste

Two innovative Vancouver high school students, Amy Bach and Sunny Huynh, have developed a groundbreaking solution to help their peers…

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Nova Scotia

3 candidates in Preston riding united in opposition to proposed waste facility

Provincial candidates vying to represent the Halifax riding with a proposed waste facility have a shared commitment — they will…

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Nova Scotia

Controversial Halifax waste facility could move ahead after court rules councillors biased

A recent court decision that called a pair of Halifax councillors biased has again opened the door for a controversial…

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Canada

Referendum sees razor-thin support from South Bruce residents to hosting Canada’s nuclear waste

A slim majority of voters in the Municipality of South Bruce say they’re open to the idea of Canada’s spent…

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Politics

Trudeau and the Liberals are burning time on themselves that they can’t afford to waste

When Justin Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on April 14, 2013, he took the helm of a…

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Lifestyle

Halloween costume swaps aim to reduce textile waste

This spooky season some people are opting to recycle old costumes in a bid to make Halloween more sustainable –…

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Politics

Gun control group calls Trudeau government’s buyback program a ‘waste’ of money

The Trudeau government is losing a key ally in its efforts to take hundreds of thousands of military-style firearms out of circulation, jeopardizing…

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Canada

How using microbes to mine human waste for power could help reduce reliance on fossil fuels

We usually don’t think about what happens after we flush our waste, but a team of B.C. researchers is experimenting…

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Tech

Turning wool into pellets could keep fibre from going to waste — and help farmers weather a changing climate

In a former juice processing plant in Port Williams, a cluster of machines whir and hum as they process piles of wool. For…

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