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.
As the population on Earth grows, so too does the one right below its surface. 60 million of us are shuffling off this mortal coil every year.
This show is about reconnecting with the reality and potential beauty of dying, death and burial. We’ll take an honest look at the industry and bureaucracy of funerals and burials, and explore the concept of green burial, and its claims for a lighter footprint and more intimate passing.
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."
Powell River is celebrating its first EARTH MONTH! Tune in to learn about all the amazing things that are going on in this community from one of the fantastic organizers, Janet Southcott. Also, meet Liam if you haven't yet. Apple's new 29 armed robot who can disassemble an iPhone 6 in 11 seconds, recovering 97% of the components. Impressive, but what would impress us more is designing for the environment so that we don't need to create robots to disassemble our products!
Beyond the price tag, what is the true cost of our clothing?
Tune in to find out why the price of fashion is decreasing, what’s in clothing dye, and how are brains reward us shopping for bargains.
Powell River's natural dye master, Amber Friedman, is our special guest this episode, sharing about steps to take to minimize fashion footprint while still looking fabulous.
As you cozy up beside the fire this winter we take aim at the flame. What's the deal with burning garbage? Incineration. Waste-to-energy if it's harnessed. We're overburdened with 'stuff', from excess packaging to planned obsolescence in product design. What to do with all this stuff? The debate is hot so jump in and form your own opinion.
We're looking to inspire a waste-free holiday season this month. Tune into the conversation this month to help curb our consumption by thinking of new ways to do things that have less of carbon footprint. Getting crafty to avoid excess waste is fun - sure beats an over-flowing trash can!
A late episode but one none the less! Recorded in September but meant for August...details details. Tune this one in as we'll be recording live again on the last Thursday of September....coming up quick so get a double bout of trash talking in this month! We've got a parady clip from Portlandia on a plastic bag ban as we continue to gear up to help Powell River be more single use bag free.
Tune in this week to hear about a fantastic ocean project that you can do with your kids or in a classroom. Water restrictions have you down on keeping your grass green? If you haven't converted your sod for salad yet, learn about the latest fad; spray on green paint for your lawn. An ecofriendly option? You decide. And lastly, delve with us into the world of bio-char!
The May edition of Let's Talk Trash looks at some fabulous upcycled art and attempts to inspire your creative flare to start a creation of your own! We also tackle a discussion on food waste with an inquiry into expiry dates, or should we say, optimum freshness date! Press play and join the conversation!
Our April edition of Let's Talk Trash features a conversation on Resource Recovery as well as a review of the hugely successful Trash Bash event. Tune in to hear details on the over 20 tonnes of materials collected!!
Welcome to the March episode of Let's Talk Trash! Journey along with us as we delve into the hot topic of glass recycling and why recycling glass may not necessarily make you 'green'. We also venture into the lastest conversation the Victoria region is discussing around the possibility of composting their kitchen scraps in a facility with their biosolids. Presently these two, commodities if you will, are being shipped out of the region for processing. Great tunes as well, we've got Blondie in the line up!
A delayed podcasting upload....tune in the Februrary edition of Let's Talk Trash to take a world waste tour starting on Easter Island. 1600km from the next inhabited island, this is home to 6,000 year round residents as well as a whopping 80,000 annual visitors. With this influx you can imagine how this is starting to make an impact. Press play and hear some interesting trash stories from around the globe as well as from our hosts!
