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Burning Garbage
Burning garbage, whether in the backyard or at municipal waste management facilities, releases thousands of pollutants- dioxins, furans, arsenic mercury, PCBs and lead. These chemicals are linked to cancer, thyroid problems, diabetes, developmental problems and heart disease. Learn more here...
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Tours
The Raven Recycling Society offers of both the recycling centre and the City of Whitehorse landfill. These tours can be suited for particpants aged from 4 to 104. Contact the education coordinator for details. Advance bookings are required, and all participants of landfill tours will have to sign a City of Whitehorse waiver.
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Publications
Raven Recycling has a variety of pamphlets and documents available for download. Some of the most recent publications are listed here.
Raven Recycling’s Activity Guide of Prescribed Learning Outcome for Yukon Teacher’s (MS Word Doc 164 kb)
Refund Pamphlet (pdf 381 kb)
Green Gatherings (pdf 335 kb)
Garbage Free Lunch Poster (pdf 1.96 Mb)
diners an dechets ( pdf 1.98 Mb)
Garbage Burning Poster (pdf 755 kb)
Open Burning of Garbage and Its Alternatives (pdf 322 kb). Please note that this paper does not represent an official position of the Environmental Programs Branch, the Department of Environment and/or the Yukon Government. But it's still full of lots of relevant information.
Lunch Comparisons (Word 97-2003 document, 1.94 mb). Comparison of health and financial aspects of a Garbage Free Lunch and a Landfill Lunch.
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Videos
Raven Recycling has a variety of videos for loan. Be sure to contact the Education Coordinator if you are looking for something on a waste management topic. Here is the most recent Raven Video List (MS Word 55 kb).
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Waste Not, Want Not Newspaper Columns
Thanks to the generosity of the Yukon News, who provide free space, the Raven Recycling Society publishes a weekly column on a variety of waste managment topics. Some of the columns are listed below.
All columns up until Feb 18th, 2005 are Adobe PDF files, and are about 100 kb in size. After that they are MS Word documents. Use the Google search engine at the top of the Raven web pages to search for topics just within the Raven website (eg. typing in compost will provide all the Raven columns and Raven web pages that mention compost).
