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Imminent closure of four recycling centres in Quebec
Reacting to the announcement of the imminent closure of four recycling centres in Quebec, including Montréal’s two main sorting centres, Saint-Michel and Lachine, Greenpeace Canada’s Oceans and Plastics Campaigner, Agnès Le Rouzic said:
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Act on climate, phase-out coal
Greenpeace in Ottawa with a message from over 16,000 Canadians as part of global protest telling Australian government Ottawa – Greenpeace organisations are holding peaceful protests at Australian embassies around…
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How to stop food waste: a comprehensive guide
58% of all food produced in Canada — 35.5 million tonnes — is lost or wasted every year. Globally, food waste is responsible for 8% of global GHGs. Let's ensure the food we buy makes it onto our plates and stays out of landfills.
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Teck Frontier, one of the largest tar sands mining projects ever
It’s one of the largest tar sands mining project ever proposed. This summer we all watched as extreme wildfires burned all over the world. This month we saw as…
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Starbucks sets ‘resource positive’ goal for coming decade
In response to today’s news, Sarah King Head of Oceans & Plastics at Greenpeace Canada said: “While it’s a welcome development that Starbucks is revisiting its sustainability strategy, the company still has a lot to figure out as to how to make it happen as quickly as possible. When it comes to the climate crisis,…
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Wet’suwet’en standoff shows we need more than words from Horgan and Trudeau.
It’s shameful. On December 3rd, B.C. Premier John Horgan said he counts the passing of legislation to enshrine the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into…
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Nestlé commits to virgin plastic reduction yet doubles down on recycling myth
Nestlé has announced today that it will partly shift from virgin plastics to food grade recycled plastics. It also aims to accelerate the development of new packaging solutions. These commitments come ahead of the World Economic Forum that will take place in Davos between January 21st-24th.
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Australian bushfires: what you can do
My heart has been breaking watching the ecological catastrophe playing out in Australia over the past several months. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and dozens of human lives have…
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Greenpeace Canada solidarity statement with Wet’suwet’en people
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 January 2020 Federal and provincial support for Coastal Gaslink Pipeline violates Indigenous rights and fuels the climate emergency by pouring more gas on a burning planet…
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Oscar winners, Wallace and Gromit creators, and Greenpeace launch heartbreaking new animated film about the plight of the oceans
Oscar-winners Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey and Stranger Things’ David Harbour, star in a new animation that highlights the plight of the oceans, released globally today by Aardman Animations and Greenpeace UK.
