Hello!
This week we talked all about waste and waste management. Mallaika and Shannon took a trip the the Waterloo Landfill site to see all of the facilities and give you the facts about waste. We featured music by the Barenaked Ladies, a Canadian band which focused on making their tours greener by teaming up with Reverb.
To check out some insane facts about waste in Canada go to:
http://www.gbresourcesgroup.com/2013/01/waste-reduction-and-recycling-facts/
There’s some mind boggling stuff in there like “1 edition of the Sunday New York Times consumes about 75,000 trees” or “North America has 8% of the world’s population, consumes 1/3 of the world’s resources and produces almost half of the world’s non-organic garbage.” So check it out if you needed a few more reasons to be greener.
Tune in next week where we will be debating the issue of overpopulation.