The government is setting ambitious goals as it hopes to keep organic materials from going to the landfills.

“Treating workers at these sites like garbage is not going to be tolerated.”

Home isolation has led to an unforeseen problem in the South Okanagan: A spike in visits to landfills.

After a recent Global News story highlighted a retail practice of sending unsold store merchandise to landfills, former retail store managers have come forward to say it was part of their job to regularly destroy and dump unsold items.

Global News took a look at where in Regina you can take your kids' old toys that were replaced by this year's Christmas shopping.

The Heft Energy Bag Pilot Project aims to divert plastic away from landfills by giving Londoners a third recycling option, aside from paper and plastic.

Last month, the City of Montreal presented its 2020-2025 waste management plan, which aims to divert waste from landfills by 85 per cent by 2030.

A new program will reduce the amount of household hazardous waste improperly disposed of in Saskatchewan landfills, according to Dustin Duncan.

Environment Minister Margaret Miller says the move will give businesses an opportunity to "create something useful from waste destined for landfills."

London Drugs has partnered with Recycle BC to collect anything from chocolate bar wrappers, to bubble wrap.