Category: Recycling
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First Blog Post of 2019: E-Waste
I’ve been researching e-waste and found some disturbing gaps in Canada’s handling of recyclable material.
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GMC Reborn
This is my first video as a professional videographer. Haha.
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From Rotten Window Sill To Finished Millwork
No pictures wer taken of the huge window coming out, or the new windows going in. It would have made a great blog post, however it would have been too long. It took most of an afternoon. I thought the old windw would be around 350lbs but it was more like 450 lbs. In order…
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There’s Copper in Them There Bins, Part Two
In part one of this two-part post I talked about my mad plan to cash in all the little scraps of copper pipe and wire that I saved from my renovation jobs. My effort was working out to $8 per hour based on my 1 hour test which ended with about 4 pounds of stripped…
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There’s Copper in Them There Bins
I’ve mentioned before that there is a lot of waste in home renovations. A lot of blogs out there talk about what should be done to reduce our waste. In the end it is our personal lifestyle that dictates how much we contribute to “Waste Reduction”. What I find interesting is that the people living…
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Shopping at Waste Management Canada
In rural Alberta there is a small town called Mirror. When someone refers to shopping at the Mirror mall, they are talking about the waste transfer station just outside town. There really is nowhere to go shopping In Mirror except the general store or the hardware store. If you want a good bicycle for a…