garbage & recycling

What is it with dog waste in this city? Why do some dog owners still refuse to pick up after their pets? Our community has a neighbourhood Facebook group, and just about every week there’s someone posting about dog poop left at the playground, dog poop on the lawn, dog poop along the nature trail. ...

Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/53c51568d535cf914e000022.jpeg) Delivery crews loading green bins into trailers for delivery. [ City of Ottawa photo. ](https://www. ...

An old, smashed up piano at the north end of Hinchey Avenue in Mechanicsville. These photos were taken on Sunday. The piano was still there as of Wednesday afternoon. Photos by NikMaack on Twitter, republished with his permission. [ ](http://ottawastart. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/green-bins.jpg) Delivery crew load green bins into trailers back in September 2009. [ Photo from the City of Ottawa. ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenbinottawa/3994653264/in/photostream) The City of Ottawa has launched an incredibly useful tool that will remind you when to put out your garbage, recycling and compost. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/xiaozhuli/5751735759/) I'm sure some of this stuff could have been recycled. Photo by [ Zhu ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/xiaozhuli/5751735759/) . Saw this recently on Shawn Hooper’s blog : As my contribution to 2010′s Open Data Ottawa Hackfest, I converted the City of Ottawa’s Garbage Collection Calendar into a open format (iCalendar) so that the schedule could be used for purposes like being imported into your favourite calendaring application such as MS Outlook, Google Calendar, or even your smartphone. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/2007-11-12-armchair.jpg) ** Used Armchair #2. ** Photo by [ Eric Charlebois ](http://whitebalance.ca/?key=706fa51d9c50c34ca2213d6e3478c5fd702742b7) . It's kind of like the Great Glebe Garage Sale, but it's city-wide, and it's free. From a [ press release ](http://www. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ottawa-garage-sales_reasonably_small.gif) Happy long weekend everyone, and happy garage sale season. We’ve set up a new Twitter feed to track garage sale listings in Ottawa. Check it out here at @ott_garage_sale (and you don’t need a Twitter account to see them. ...

Really liked this photo from David Scrimshaw of an old parking meter in Chinatown that’s been re-born as a decorative planter. See also: Where Parking Meters Go To Die . [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Meter-Planter-589-crop.jpg)

[ ](http://howtokillmaggots.com/images/maggot_infestaton.jpg) Earlier this week City Council approved changes to residential waste collection . The changes include bi-weekly garbage pick-up, intended to encourage green bin usage. One of the big beefs with green bins last summer was the presence of maggots. ...

A quick heads up that we’ve launched a new directory on our main site called the Ottawa Green Guide . It features a big listing of blogs, organizations and businesses who are working towards a healthy, sustainable environment. We’re looking for your suggestions for additional businesses and organizations to add - please suggest a site . ...