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Showing posts with label Recycling. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Omemee Scouts Want Your Cans - Can You Help?
Omemee Scouts Recycling Fundraiser!
Omemee Scouts want to help you with your recycling.Is your recycling bin filled to overflowing with pop cans, beer cans,or liquor store bottles? Wouldn't it be great if you could have more room in your recycling bin? Omemee Scouts want to help! Omemee Scouts would be very happy to help you make more room in your recycling bin,and your donations of pop cans, liquor store bottles,and beer cans will go towards a great cause - helping create learning experiences for the youth of our village and rural area. 
Spread the Word!
Print out a copy of this article by clicking the 'Printfriendly' button below,and post it on your office bulletin board, local bulletin board,or pass it along to the neighbours. Let's all pitch in,to help Omemee Scouts and join in by saying 'YES! We Can!'
For more information about how you can donate your pop cans to 1st Omemee Scouts. Contact J.Pell jlynnpell AT gmail DOT com or call 705-760-5724.
Image from Open ClipArt-Recycling
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Getting Rid of Christmess - Recycling Tips!
Winter Waste and Recycling Tips!
Recycling and Waste Pickup is on Holiday scheduling this week so if your pick up is regularly Monday it's Tuesday,Tuesday-it's Wednesday,and so on. White or clear bags are very difficult to see against the snow.Residents are asked to please use black or green bags during the winter season. This Week is green box fibre recycling.
Christmas Trees
Residents are reminded to bring formerly live Christmas trees to any City landfill site,where they will be composted along with any other yard waste . Please remove all ornaments, tinsel and other decorations for your tree to be accepted at no cost.
Fibre Recycling this Week!
This week's Green Bin fibre recycling pick up includes the following recyclables in your bin:
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Wrapping Materials –Non-metallic wrapping paper and greeting cards. Gift bags accepted with rope, metal handles or other decals removed.
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Newspaper/Fine Paper – Newspapers, insert flyers,
catalogues, magazines, phone books, mail, writing paper and envelopes (including window envelopes). -
Other Packaging – Brown paper bags, fibre egg cartons, toilet/paper towel rolls and paper coffee cups (without plastic lids – those go in the blue box).
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Boxboard – Boxboard includes cereal, cracker, detergent, drug, shoe, gift and tissue boxes. Remove liners and handles. Wax coated boxes such as frozen food boxes and ice cream cartons can also be added to your green
box. -
Corrugated Cardboard – Cardboard has a rippled layer in the middle and includes clean pizza boxes. Remove tape and other material from boxes. Break into flat pieces and bundle. The bundle must be no larger than your green recycle box. Maximum size:
2ft x 2ft x 2ft or 61cm x 61cm x 61cm. -
Books – Hard and soft cover books.
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Shredded Paper –in a plastic bag
Soiled Paper Not Recyclable
Did your cat, dog,kid, or car leak on your paper? Did your kid blow their nose on it? –Anything dirty-THAT’S GARBAGE! Here are some other types of paper besides paper towel / facial tissue that are not accepted in our recycling:
- shipping envelopes with bubble liner.
- corn –based biodegradable paper
products (i.e. drinking cups) and pet food bags. - peat pots, and Clementine boxes
Still have too much garbage?
Extra garbage bag ties can be purchased for $3 each at:
- Municipal Service Centres
- Libraries
- Downeyville Downeyville Country Store 857 Sturgeon Road 705-799-1516
- Dunsford Mum’s Mini Mart 1972 Sturgeon Road 705-793-105
- Omemee Riverview Marina 913 Peace Road 705-799-5837
Have questions about Curbside Collection?
Contact Miller Waste Systems Inc. at 1-888-557-4711 or www.millergroup.ca
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Greening Garbage Saves Kawartha Lakes Millions!
New Miller Waste Systems Contract Brings Savings!
September 26th Miller Waste Management begins a new waste pick up program potentially saving citizens $9.1 million over its 7 year term.'The partnership with Miller Waste will position Kawartha Lakes as a municipal leader in waste management technology and innovation,'said Mayor Ric McGee. 'Transitioning to new ways of doing business and the elimination of land filling waste is the ultimate goal for Kawartha Lakes.'Other qualitative items such as research and development of green initiatives, fair
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Zip! Omemee Residents “Left Holding The Bag”
Speedy Sanitation Workers Clean Up in No Time Flat - Leave Unwary Residents Sitting With Bags of Garbage
On Tuesday, residents who had not set their garbage out early were literally left holding their bags. Although the Residential Waste Calendar warns: ”Curbside set out time is 7:00 a.m. (6:00 a.m. in some downtown cores)." and " The truck may not always come at the same time every week."Many Omemee residents, have become used to the recycling truck arriving as late as 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Therefore, rather than put their trash and recycling out early in the morning, or the prior evening, they choose to set it out closer to the expected arrival of the truck that lumbers along the streets.
Increased Efficiency Increases City Coffers
Monday, May 9, 2011
How Do You Re-Use Plastic? Omemee Women Helping Haiti Make Mats!
What’s Your Re-Use Tip?
Tomorrow is Blue Box Day in Omemee, which means containers, plastic, cans, and Styrofoam trays go in the recycling, but do you have any great re-using tips? Reusing items, rather than re-cycling them, can help reduce your carbon footprint even more.How do you re-use plastic bags?
Women Helping Haiti Omemee Chapter, re-uses clean three litre milk bags to make sleeping mats for the Homeless in Haiti. Crocheted sleeping mats are washable, repel bugs and provide an alternative to sleeping on the ground Mats are delivered cost-free, because they are also used as packing material around fragile items en route. An adults mat is 36 x 65 inches, and a child’s mat is 30 x 45 inches.It can take up to 300 milk bags to make one sleeping mat for an adult.Women Helping Haiti meets for coffee and fellowship every other Tuesday at at the Reaboro-Omemee Baptist Church , 21 Sturgeon St. North Omemee. In addition to preparing milk bags for crocheting into sleeping mats, Women Helping Haiti puts together hospital care kits, and birthing kits for the women of Haiti. Their next meting is on Tuesday, May 17th at 9:30 a.m.
For more information call (705) 799-1469
Check out the Milk Bag Mat project for more details.
Got Junk? Drop off Treasures Tuesday and Fridays- Omemee Lioness Need Pick Up? Call Pauline!
Spring Cleaning? Re-Gift those Tasteful Treasures!
Omemee and District Lioness are gearing up for their Annual Yard Sale, and you’re invited to participate! Time to make room for new treasures by clearing out those items that just aren’t quite your style anymore! Tuesday and Friday mornings, leading up to the Saturday May 21st, yard sale, Lioness will be on hand to accept your ‘treasures" at Omemee Enterprises (former Regal Stationery). Drop off treasures from 10:00 to 11:30 am, or for pick up call Pauline at 799-6901.Be sure to mark the date in your calendar for this great fun event!
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Great Recycling Project!
Old Clothes : New Sleeping Bags Did you miss this month's textile pick up? Here is a great way to put those textiles to use! Please leave a comment if you would like to take part in this project. Thanks!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Omemee Recycling Day Blue Box Today!
Save Money! Reduce Your Waste!
Recycling Day ? While some people call it Garbage Day, every Tuesday in Omemee is Recycling Day. City of Kawartha Lakes has a two bag garbage collection limit-anything more than that needs to have a pre-paid tag, or you can take it to the landfill. Either option will cost you $3.Every Tuesday, Omemee residents can reduce their garbage by recycling their waste. On alternate Tuesdays, Omemee has either green fibre (paper) or blue container (plastics, tin) pick up. Please don’t try to recycle anything contaminated with pet waste or motor oil-that’s garbage. Recycled containers must be placed in a recycling bin. They will not be picked up if they are bagged. The only recyclables accepted in bags are shredded paper in a clear plastic bag, or plastic bags bagged in another plastic bag.
Here’s the low down on what you can and can’t put in the recycling bins as well as a few ideas for reusing and rethinking to reduce waste. Please add your ideas in the comments, and we’ll add them to the chart. Download a free Recycling Calendar from the City of Kawartha Lakes site, it has a tonne of handy info. Click here.
Container Reuse and Recycling
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