Garbage Just what DO you know about it?

 This post will be of interest to readers who live in Eastern Ontario.

We have a close friend who works in THAT industry for one of the biggest collector in E.Ontario.

That person gave us a real heads up regarding our trash and recycling.

Do you know how much of your recycled products actually do get recycled?

How does HARDLY ANY of it sound to you?

Those milk cartons and tetra packs? They go into a warehouse where they are bundled and sent right to the LANDFILL. There is no market for them because of the energy needed to process them.  It will cost the municipalities to get rid of them. That's what happened to plastic bags, so the cartons will likely follow soon. 

Cans are also warehoused. There is a market for them down the line, if I remember correctly they go to someplace like Vietnam.

The big market is paper and Number 1 to 5 clear plastic. All those fine water bottles and clamshells especially, are worth big bucks in the industry. We don't recycle much of other plastics in E.Ontario, but it is big industry in some other places. Did you know our fleece garments and acrylic yarns are largely made from that other recycled plastic?

Glass goes in waves. It has to be sorted by color which is pretty labor intensive when the darn stuff is broken.

Our packaging is a big waste of energy any way you look at it. Plastic is a byproduct of the petroleum industry which is pretty dirty at every level. Production of the containers uses energy. Then it uses more energy in handling. And then re-processing. 

I'd sure like to get that stuff out of my grocery basket.

Happy Canada Day as we go wandering

 

Wishing all of my Canadian Pals a happy Canada Day.

After brekkie we hopped in the car and went roaming to see our great land.  We saw lots of farmers out doing hay today. The scent of new mown hay and milkweed was just heady.

We had a wonderful sound track to our roadtrip. CBC radio was broadcasting the Massey Hall concert in tribute to the late Gordon Lightfoot. The Who's Who of Canadian popular music were singing his songs. If you are interested in viewing the concert, it is available on YouTube.

 

We visited the sweet village of Eganville. It was a busy place today.  Wandering on we landed on the historical Opeongo Colonization Road. Our first stop was to visit M. family who were have a family yard sale at his aunt's house. His brother was there from up the road, and parents from up the highway so it was a nice gathering.  From there we popped over the road to the Sebastapol township museum where his sister in law was holding open house. It was very interesting! There are an awful lot of documents on file for anyone interested in area families. Upstairs were so many household goods and photos. We really enjoyed that.

We wandered on, enjoying the views from the highlands of Bonnechere.  As we pointed the little red SUV toward home we made a stop at the roadside stand belonging to the Mennonite farmers. A big bag of carrots and a huge cauliflower came home with us. 

We had friends up from the city on Saturday, so we had a big bonfire and did some fireworks. Several neighbours were popping theirs off last night. We really enjoy fireworks. Fortunately they don't bother the Princess Pup at all. She actually watched them shoot up with great interest. 

Before we headed out this morning I wandered up the path and collected the SD card from the Trail Camera. Junior Bear has been back for a visit.