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European storks skip migration to feast on human food waste

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0316/European-storks-skip-migration-to-feast-on-human-food-waste “Landfill sites provide abundant food resources that are reliable in both space and time, thus likely contributing to enabling individuals to remain in their breeding territory and on their nests year-round,” the team of British and Portuguese researchers explain in their study published Tuesday in the journal Movement Ecology. Read this article.  Removing food from its proper nutrient cycle rears its ugly head again...

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Scarborough condo leading way toward ‘zero waste’

Check out this link to original article, reposted below: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/05/scarborough-condo-leading-way-toward-zero-waste.html   By: David Rider City Hall Bureau Chief, Published on Sat Mar 05 2016 Toronto’s path to diverting all waste from a rapidly filling landfill might start at a Scarborough condominium. The 1,000 or so residents of Mayfair on the Green responded to skyrocketing waste fees with a multi-pronged diversion campaign. They turned the garbage chute into an organics collector, tapped city educational tools including multilingual signs and cut trash output to one dumpster every two months from one dumpster every week. “If you really talk to the people and they really understand, they will help,” says Princely Soundranayagam, the building’s superintendent who has spearheaded the transformation since 2004. “Also, put a dollar mark (of savings) in front of them.…

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