{"id":12819,"date":"2015-09-30T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:03:34","slug":"canadians-piling-up-more-garbage-than-ever-before-as-disposables-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12819","title":{"rendered":"Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/canadians-piling-up-more-garbage-than-ever-before-as-disposables-rule-1.3248949\" target=\"_blank\">Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>There&#8217;s a high price to pay for our love affair with products of convenience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We like to think we&#8217;re behaving like model citizens, hauling our recycling to the curb and composting our banana peels. But the sad truth is, Canadians are\u00a0piling up more household\u00a0garbage than ever before. It appears that even in an era of environmental awareness, we just can&#8217;t quit\u00a0our love affair with convenient, disposable products.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/canadians-produce-more-garbage-than-anyone-else-1.1394020\">Canadians produce more garbage than anyone else<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/garbage-nation-why-two-women-want-to-help-canadians-stop-piling-up-the-trash-1.3243833\">Garbage nation: Why two women want to help Canadians stop piling up the trash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, all that convenience is costing us\u00a0both environmentally\u00a0and financially.<\/p>\n<p>According to Statistics Canada&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www5.statcan.gc.ca\/cansim\/a26?lang=eng&amp;retrLang=eng&amp;id=1530041&amp;&amp;pattern=&amp;stByVal=1&amp;p1=1&amp;p2=31&amp;tabMode=dataTable&amp;csid=\">latest data<\/a>,\u00a0the total amount of trash that Canadian households tossed increased by almost seven\u00a0per cent since 2004 to 9.6 million\u00a0tonnes\u00a0in 2012.\u00a0Although the population rose at a\u00a0slightly faster rate over that period, the growing\u00a0trash output\u00a0is still startling considering the significant ramping up of\u00a0the country&#8217;s many\u00a0recycling and composting programs\u00a0over those years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m\u00a0not totally surprised but I am disappointed,&#8221; says\u00a0Emily Alfred, waste campaigner with Toronto Environmental\u00a0Alliance. She says a big culprit is\u00a0the rapid pace of disposable products piling up in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rate of product design and new things being put on the market is faster than most municipalities&#8217; [recycling systems] can keep up with,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t get enough of convenience<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"figure col4width floatright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3249032.1443554037!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/recycling-frozen-vegetables.JPG\" alt=\"recycling frozen vegetables\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">Frozen vegetables in stand-up plastic bags on display in a store freezer. The City of Toronto cannot recycle these bags. (CBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One good example \u2014\u00a0those convenient resealable plastic bags often containing frozen fruit or vegetables that stand upright in a grocery store&#8217;s freezer. &#8220;It&#8217;s great for advertisers because you can now see their products,&#8221; says Alfred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians piling up more garbage than ever before as disposables rule There&#8217;s a high price to pay for our love affair with products of convenience We like to think we&#8217;re behaving like model citizens, hauling our recycling to the curb and composting our banana peels. But the sad truth is, Canadians are\u00a0piling up more household\u00a0garbage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,3544,3000,9427,9425,9426,7611,671,1936,9428],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-composting","tag-convenience","tag-disposables","tag-garbage","tag-recycling","tag-statistics-canada","tag-toronto-environmental-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}