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Jun 9, 2021 | 6:23 AM
Reaction to the news of changes to the Blue Box program in Ontario is positive for one local organization.
Minister of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks Jeff Yurek announced last week that the program is expanding to far north communities by 2026, and it will be accepting more items in bins.
General Manager of Bruce Area Solid Waste Recycling Vince Cassone says by expanding the program, he believes it will get more people to recycle and divert items from landfills.
Cassone says they currently have to sort out items like paper and plastic and it would be great if they would no longer have to do that.
The goal is to collect the data from these locations and hopefully roll out the program to all provincial parks for 2022. Provincial parks included in the pilot program include: Algonquin, Arrowhead, Batchawana Bay, Craigleith, Darlington, Forks of the Credit, Kakabeka Falls, Kettle Lakes, Lake Superior, Long Point, Mono Cliffs, North Beach, Pinery, Presqu’ile, Sandbanks, Sibbald Point, and Turkey Point.
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LONDON, ONT. A petition started a year ago to save a threatened species breeding ground from being developed has eclipsed 30,000 signatures. The petition called Ssave London s bank swallows has collected over 33,000 signatures and was delivered Saturday to Minister of Environment Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek, as well as the Minister of Natural Resources John Yakabuski. Upwards of 2000 bank swallows nest and breed in the former Byron gravel pit which is planned for development putting those nests and the species in danger. But the petitioners say the decision on the the birds fate lies with the province. There s protection for species at risk under the Endangered Species Act, that s enforced by the environment of conservation and parks under Yurek, but then because this is aggregate land, that is handled by a separate piece of legislation called the aggregate resources act which is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry under Yakabuski, says Brendon Sa