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Recycling: Enviro Meeting in Toronto, March 6

Recycling: Is your Apartment or Condo Ready for Zero Waste? Toronto - Monday March 6th

The City of Toronto has set waste diversion goals of 60% by 2008 - 100% by 2012. Currently, residents in apartments and condos are diverting only 12% of their waste. With over half of Toronto's residents living in low-, medium- and high-rise buildings, strategies for recycling and composting are a top priority. Each building presents its own challenges, such as aging garbage chutes or lack of space for organic waste storage. Yet many buildings have succeeded in developing innovative programs and the city is pilot-testing organic recycling. With impending levies on excess waste, the threat of Michigan landfills closing their doors to our garbage and few mandatory requirements for new buildings, time is running out.

Do you live in a high-rise? What would you like to see happen in your building? What small steps can you take on our own? What are tenants, property managers, condo boards and the city doing to reach our waste diversion goals?

In attendance will be:

Councillor Shelley Carroll: Toronto City Councillor for Don Valley East and Chair of the Works Committee.

Doug Paton: condo resident and Chair of the Celebrity Place Green Committee.

Rod Muir: Waste Diversion Campaigner, Sierra Club of Canada.

Wayne Tuck: General Manager for Minto Management Ltd., a real estate management company participating in the city's source-separated organic pilot project and a recipient of the Green Toronto Award.

Geoff Rathbone: City of Toronto Solid Waste Management,Director of Policy and Planning.

Co-sponsored by the St. Lawrence Centre Forum and smartliving St. Lawrence

Mon, Mar 6 2006 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location: St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East,
(two blocks east of Union Stn.) Toronto

Contact: Jamie Kirkpatrick Ph 416-960-9606
Email: ontariochapter@sierraclub.ca
Web: www.wastediversion.ca

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