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Youth and Sustainable Consumption
The Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention (C2P2), through the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, is publishing a booklet for youth on the topic of sustainable consumption. Click here to dowload the booklet free.
Wave of raw sewage escapes treatment
The first comprehensive look at the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Great Lakes from cities in Canada and the United States has found that billions of litres are being dumped untreated every year into the sources of drinking water for communities on both sides of the border. Read the article from the globe…
Report warns of another Walkerton
Ontario’s environmental commissioner says changes to farming regulations are actually increasing the likelihood of another tragedy like the Walkerton water crisis.
Ontarians trashing recycling targets
Ontarians recycled only 25 per cent of their trash last year
Toronto toilets dumping sewage into creek
It’s a rather indelicate topic, but sometimes when Toronto residents flush their toilets, the contents don’t go where they should — the local sewage plant. Instead, in a practice more common in developing countries than in Canada’s largest city, the sewage is dumped into the nearest stream.
The religious war on bottled water
Bottled water has never gone down smoothly with many environmentalists, who view it as an extravagantly wasteful way of quenching a thirst, but the product is facing criticism from an unexpected source ? religious groups.
Pollution in Great Lakes rising despite cleanup effort, study says
TORONTO ? Despite decades of effort cleaning up the Great Lakes, industrial discharges of water pollutants into the lakes are rising in both Canada and the United States, according to a new report.
