Most businesses compliant with Edmonton’s single-use item policy, city says
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The policy went into place two months ago, and though the city received more than 500 complaints in July, it only received 120 in August.
Most businesses in Edmonton are complying with the single-use items policy the city of Edmonton introduced two months ago, according to the city.
Edmonton city councillors heard an update on the bylaw at a utilities committee meeting Tuesday.
Seventy per cent of businesses are compliant with the bylaw, with all of the remaining ones working with the city to comply with the bylaw.
The city has a goal of reducing the disposal of single-use items 10 per cent by 2025.
To know if the city’s strategies are working, crews have started doing waste characterization studies – that is, studying the trash from both residential bins and from public garbage bins and seeing how many single-use items are tossed now compared to before the bylaw was introduced.
The city will also work with the capital clean-up crews to do a similar study on litter found on Edmonton’s streets.
Under the new bylaw, businesses must charge at least 15 cents for a paper shopping bag and at least $1 for a new reusable shopping bag, among other changes.
The charge on bags is meant to make people think twice about if they really need a bag, according to Dennis Jubinville, branch manager of waste services for the city.
B.C. health authorities have announced the first case of a human avian flu infection acquired in Canada, with the teenage patient in critical condition in hospital.
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Kennedy ran as an independent presidential candidate but gave Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a role in health policy in the next Trump administration.
Emergency services are at the scene of a train derailment Thursday morning on Montreal's south shore, where they are urging citizens to stay away from the area.
"I was yelling at them saying get the F** away it’s a wild animal," resident Josh Merrin told Global News. "Sorry about my language."
H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.
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Edmontonians have had mixed feelings and now the city is asking people to share their thoughts officially. The findings of a survey could bring some changes.
Dr. Anna Wolak, a family physician in Vancouver, said many parents are likely having flashbacks to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite this flu being a single case.
WHO acknowledged that testing for mpox is still not widespread, making it difficult to understand how exactly the virus is spreading.