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Local permaculture expert and composting enthusiast Whitney Vanderleest recently put out a notice to the Cortes Island community that their household compost could be dropped off at her farm, or picked up from any residence. She received no response.
Continue reading Cortes Island permaculturalist receives no response to request for household compost
Originally published on Cortes Radio.ca
There was music. Miyako Reid talked about her garden, chickens and other aspects of her life on Cortes. The feature presentation on the June 26th Folk U Friday was ‘Cortes Waste & Recycling Demystified.’
As people get more waste conscience, the people on Cortes Island can be proud to know that they have one of the most successful waste diversion programs in the region. And BC has created successful programs to deal with their waste, so that there are still markets for the recycling in BC despite unstable global systems.
Continue reading Folk U: Cortes Waste & Recycling Demystified
Billie Fleming runs a local waste allocation facility – processing garbage and recycling. She has been collecting garbage at the docks around Cortes for over four years.
Cortes Currents learned that there are some changes coming to the dock garbage collection service.
Continue reading New System for collecting garbage from Cortes Island government docksLast November, a black bear started raiding the fruit trees, garbage cans and compost piles in homes backing onto Basil Creek, on Cortes Island. In response to a complaint, the Conservation Officer Service brought a trap over to the island. If they had caught the bear, it would have been put down – but the Squirrel Cove Bear escaped.
Continue reading Update on the Squirrel Cove BearIn this edition of the Folk U Radio’s Reporters Roundtable, our journalists talk about environmental issues in some small Vancouver Island communities.
Continue reading Environmental issues in small Vancouver Island communities
