CJMP Podcast

The bears have long since woken up and are even being reported breaking into sheds and houses around town.  We will hear from the local WildSafeBC community officer about how to keep wildlife wild and our community safe. 

Love is in the air and there are a few Zero Waste wedding celebrations planned. One couple will tie the loveknot without forgetting to love up the planet on their special day.

The bears have long since woken up and are even being reported breaking into sheds and houses around town.  We will hear from the local WildSafeBC community officer about how to keep wildlife wild and our community safe. 

Love is in the air and there are a few Zero Waste wedding celebrations planned. One couple will tie the loveknot without forgetting to love up the planet on their special day.

In this episode we take a look inside our kitchen and bathroom cupboards to sniff out what kinds of cleaners are truly user AND planet friendly.  It isn’t as easy as you may hope. The good news is, you can usually whip up the cleaning product you need from a short list of ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen pantry.  

We also hear about the coming City curbside composting pilot project. Will your household be one of the 400 selected for the pilot?  And now that it’s once again bear season, we hear from our local WildSafe BC community coordinator about how to keep curious bears out of your home.  We’re also going to tune into the inspiring Ocean Legacy Project’s work, and chat with the co-founder, Chloe Dubois, to hear how they are finding ways to not only help volunteers clean up the oceans, but also how to make it possible to responsibly reuse and recycle found items.

An Earth Month celebration!  Tune in to hear a quick summary of some of the events and activities that took place during April to celebrate Earth Month Powell River.  We speak to 3 movers and shakers, Lesley Thorsell, Shaunalee Yates and Wendy Drummond.  Hear some progress being made on the Boomerang Bags Powell River initiative amongst some other great conversation!

It's time to get into the garden!  Tune in for some zero waste gardening tips, hear some reactions from local folks on the new Save-On Foods bag charge policy and learn about an upcoming initiative happening right here in Powell River - Boomerang Bags.  Plus, we air a new muscial track from Adham Shaikh that takes a good look into the over use of paper cups.

When you order your next fish taco, you probably won’t be expecting a side dish of plastic, but in a world of increasing plastic pollution, it isn’t so far fetched a possibility.  Shellfish lovers alone are eating up to 11,000 plastic fragments in their seafood each year. There is no longer a question whether we are eating plastic in our seafood.  But, “How did we get here?” And “What do we do about it?”  Tune in for some simple tips to curb your dependence on plastic.

Happy 2017!  On our 70th edition of the Let's Talk Trash radio show we start the new year off with a conversation focused on repurposing.  The world of upcycling and repurposing is a deep wormhole you can delve into.  We scratch the surface and start to dream for what can be possible at Powell River's Resource Recovery Centre.  The conversation looks at industrial and reuse opportunities.  Have or work at a business in Powell River that disposes of some sort of 'waste' that seems just too good to waste?  Let us know! 

During the October edition of Let's Talk Trash, we dig into the recycling.  What happens and where does it go?  As we move past the first layer the occurrance of 'leakage' and the conversation about oversea sales of some of our recycling comes up.  Join the discussion to find out why you might want to be curious about what exactly happens when you toss an item into a recycling bin.

This episode you'll hear how two local tech heroes are creating a Maker Space in Powell River.  We'll also dive deeper into the topic of eWaste with a returning guest who will discuss candidly about what really happens to electronics once they hit the recycling bin.
Details of the coming community compost drop off pilot will be revealed, including why compostable plastics are out of the program.

It's been almost 20 years since the first attempt of a community-wide composting program.  And finally, after much anticipation, Powell River will be launching what is accpected to be our region's long term solution for diverting food scraps and yard waste out of the waste stream.  Dubbed a pilot project but expected to carry on into the future, Powell River's Community Organics Recycling Exchange (C.O.R.E) program will officially launch on October 1st of this year.  Tune in to get more details and to hear an interview with Bert Baillie, a local Irish man who tried to get this going back in the early 90's.

Hot off the airwaves, July's radio show features the exciting news of Powell River's confirmation in a federal grant for $6 million dollars towards the clean up of an old incinerator site and its conversion into a Resource Recovery Centre!

Hear from 3 local Powell Riverites who are equally excited about this concept and offer a glimpse into their resource recovery fortes. We have biochar guru Ron Berezan, textile/fibre artist Wendy Drummon, and an authentic e-waste recycler David Repa (Founder of the Hackery and co-founder of Free Geek Vancouver.

Tune into hear how the local collection of illegally dumped trash was transformed into an opportunity to make treasure from trash. 

Tired of plastic bag bans that are all bark but no bite?  Hear where things are at with Victoria's bag ban. 

Fast Fashion is starting to get the reputation it deserves.  Learn about the true cost of the textiles industry.

It's time for some Spring Cleaning!  Starting with clearing the plastic out of our kitchens, bathrooms and lives in general and moving on to cleaning up illegally dumped trash in our neighbourhood. 

As Bill Nye the Science Guy says, "if you want to leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you've got to clean up someone else's trash."