Earth Day and Spring Clean Up

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    Today is Earth Day,  and if you aren’t already planning to take part in the Spring Clean up in Prince George, here are some  facts and figures from Statistics Canada  that  just might help motivate some of us:

24% — The percentage rise in Greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2003.

350 kilotonnes — The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from waste incineration (including solid waste and sewage sludge) in 2002.

678,817 kilotonnes — Total greenhouse gas emissions, all industry sectors, 2000.

107,662 kilotonnes — Greenhouse gas emissions of the Household sector.

Household garbage accounts for 40% of the solid waste generated in Canada.

383 kg — The amount of waste generated in Canada, per person, by the residential component of solid waste in 2002.

30 — The number of green garbage bags this represents, per person.

140,000 tonnes — According to Environment Canada, the estimated weight of obsolete and unwanted electronics components, computers, television sets, stereos and cell phones discarded annually in Canadian landfills. E-wastes contain toxic materials such as lead, mercury, arsenic and chromium.

2.5 million tonnes  — The amount of residential waste that was recycled in Canada or otherwise diverted in 2002.

$1.5 billion-plus — The cost of waste management services to Canadian municipal governments in 2002.

The  Spring Clean up program today runs from 10 a.m. till 2:00.  

Garbage drop off locations are:

• 5th and Killoren Street
• Watrous Park
• 2nd and George
• Hudson’s Bay Slough on Queensway Avenue
• Ospika Boulevard at ANdres Road
• College Heights Secondary School
• Vanway School

Yard and Garden waste can be dropped off at:

• Quinn Street Transfer Station
• Vanway Transfer Station
• Foothills Landfill

Last year,  more than 70 registered groups and hundreds of  people  pitched in and picked up 18,980 kilograms of litter.

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