2010 is Urban Impact’s 20th Birthday!
20 years, it is hard to believe!
Urban Impact began as an academic question … and someone morphed into a company. It is amazing to me, really. 20 years ago not much recycling was happening and recycling was considered to be quite radical. Thankfully today, the world has accepted it as a normal businesses or household practice! Saving our used resources and making something new … truly the way it should be.
In any event, we are planning our 20th Birthday Celebration in the summer. We are looking for ways to celebrate and the theme is “20″. So far we have a few suggestions, they include:
- Planting 20 trees (good sized ones)
- Sponsoring 20 Foster Children
- Purchasing 20 benches for public parks
Can you think of any others, if so we would love to hear your suggestions!
Reusable containers for take out, what an easy waste reduction solution
Purchase some reusable containers for take out foods. Easy right?
Buying them is certainly easy enough and relatively inexpensive. I recently purchased two sets of take out containers, my strategy is that I would likely forget the first set at work or in the car (or somewhere else) so the second set would save my bacon so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »
Composting your home kitchen waste is the next step
Many muncipalities in Canada and abroad are wrestling with composting collection for residents. Commercial servies have already sprung up in a variety of regions and should service the ICI sector well. Residential collection is expensive and some residents certainly are resisting collecting and disposing of their compostables seperately.
I am not sure why all the resistance? I have been composting at home for 20 years and it is an easy and actually quiet a fun process to participate in. Watching the compost (over time) become a nutrient and quality soil aditive is actually quite therapeutic. I only wish it went a bit faster. Here in the northern hemisphere it does take a little longer to start breaking down and becoming soil.
Two tips from my home compost system – add some moisture during the dryer season and don’t forget to turn it from time to time. These two things definately speed it up and make it usable in your garden faster.
Recently we moved to a suburban setting where our neighbors have chickens. Well these creatures have eliminated whatever remained in my garbage bin (like left overs and cooked foods)! They will eat anything, a little bit of old soup and some oatmeal porridge leftover for the day – well that is like a gourmet delight to them! They are not to eat any meat or fish.
So with a little help from my home composter and the chickens next door, we don’t have any organic waste going into our garbage bin!
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