Therisa Timan from Pittmetals B.C. wants to know what to do with her old paint cans. How do you handle paint waste responsibly?If you dump solvent wastes like paint and paint thinners down the street drains, they usually go straight into the lake or rivers. If you dump it down the household dra...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,On this show I had a visit from Larraine Roulston, Director, Recycling Council of Ontario, a lady who really believes we can do so much more than we are doing now. She believes in consumer pressure on municipalities to put in place and improve recycling programs, pressure ...
Every major city has some kind of de-construction re-cycling store.Rather than just throwing things away when you renovate, they come in and take it apart for you and take it away for you. That saves you the money of demolition.Then they put it up for sale, providing lots of useful and valuable ...
Todd is collecting a lot of fine sawdust from renovation work and doesn't want to throw it away. What do to with it?First on the safety side of the question. Fine sawdust in the air is explosive! Keep it in closed containers. Sawdust with any volitle solvents in it is like cleaning rags, it...
Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cad) batteries are the most common of the rechargeable batteries.They can be regular looking batteries that you recharge in special charging blocks, or they can be the specialized batteries that you find in cell phones and power tools. Although rechargeable, they eventually ne...
