YEG’s trash problem is garbage
It’s a Wednesday evening, and everything goes as usual. I leave my black garbage bin along the curb right beside its smaller green clone. They sit there in silence like gargoyles in the night, awaiting the arrival of Edmonton’s garbage trucks. In the early rise of dawn, only one is chosen. The green bin. The black bin was too full. As I creep up to the bins before work, I find an unpleasant sight. Yet another half moon shall pass while I must wait for the waste collectors’ return. I guess my trash will wait patiently in a stinky mountain of bags along the side of my house. Surely the HOA won’t mind. In 2021, the infamous green-bin waste collection plan swept through Edmonton’s neighbourhoods. The plan introduced separate...
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Student Groups Expo brings students together
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Feb 2025
Clarification: In the print UPASS story in the Feb. issue of the Griff, it was written that the Edmonton Student Alliance was involved in negotiations with ETS. While ESA members were present, the ESA was not involved in negotiations, but are involved in ongoing advocacy.
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