Food wastage is becoming more concerning as the pandemic has brought about in both household food and restaurant waste across Toronto.

Megan Takeda-Tully and partner Julianna Greco have launched Suppli to help restaurants and their customers cut down on non-recyclable black plastic packaging

Suzanne MacDonald, a professor at York University, is currently researching the size of our urban raccoon population to see if the city’s new green bins will result in “skinny raccoons”.  So far, she sees little evidence.

About 40 per cent of food produced in Canada goes uneaten each year, but the Trashed and Wasted aims to improve this.

John Tory's claim about extra-large garbage bins is a little exaggerated, according to a waste management representative.

With the one-year anniversary of John Tory being elected Toronto's mayor upon us, inevitably, comparisons between him and former leader Rob Ford are being made. Tory built his campaign on city unification, upgrading transit and housing and ending the “circus” at city hall, while Ford wanted to improve the TTC and bring more transparency to city council. With such differing agendas, how do the two compare?

In 2001, six municipalities were amalgamated into the new City of Hamilton. Four of those municipalities contracted out waste collection. It was in that context that the new city decided on a split system for trash collection.

Walking through Morningside Park you’ll see beautiful streams, people throwing tennis balls for their...

Plastic pop bottles, juice boxes, cigarette butts — these are just a few examples...

Rob Ford’s choice for TTC chair has the new mayor’s campaign slogan top-of-mind. Rob Ford...

Every Tuesday is my collection day. The calendar the City of Toronto sends out every so often says my trash should be on the curb no later than 7 a.m. on scheduled pickup days.

With the sun rising into a clear sky above the Scarborough Bluffs, Sunday provided the perfect backdrop for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. The only problem? Only six people volunteered to help at the Sept. 19 event.