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Winter is coming. And if you haven’t already done it, it’s time to bring out the cold-weather clothes. All those sweaters, corduroys, woolly coats, hats and mittens that you probably

At this point in history, we need dramatic waste reduction. It is an important element of the “new normal.” We are urgently trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We have new awareness of how pollution near landfills and incinerators affects...

Article content I see fellow Citizen columnist Randall Denley is talking trash, as it were.  Allow me to toss my compost onto the pile. The news is, of course, grim. Our city’s landfill will reach capacity sometime around 2036 or 2038, officials say, and we must find a way to deal with this that does not involve anything too expensive, stinky or deleterious to the environment. If you’re keen to read the details, you can find them on the city of Ottawa’s website under Solid Waste Master Plan. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or

May 12, 2021 Waste Management, the owner of the Southern Services Construction & Demolition landfill in Nashville filed a law suit after an oversight board rejected its plans to expand its 77-acre landfill by an additional 17 acres.  The board concluded the expansion was "inconsistent" with the city's long-term Solid Waste Master Plan, a comprehensive roadmap that calls on the city to achieve near zero-waste to landfills by 2050.   In the lawsuit, Waste Management asked the court to overturn the solid waste board's decision, or for the court to remand their application for expansion...