Members If you are not already a MARR member and would like to join, please join here. Articles: Tech Talk - Re-visiting automated sorting technologies - Info on needles and the problems they cause with recycling - Get it Here - Reducing On-site Residential Waste Combustion The practice of backyard burning produces pollutants, including dioxins and furans - toxic, persistent, and bioaccumulative substances that result predominantly from human activity. It also releases excess carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be "locked down" in organic substances. The study is intended to serve as a resource for municipalities in designing strategies to address the practice of residential waste combustion. Click here for more... Newsletters: - AMRC Winter 2004/2005 Part 1 Part 2 - AMRC Fall 2004 - Part 1  Part 2 - AMRC Summer 2004 - Part 1  Part 2 - AMRC Spring 2004 - Part 1  Part 2 - For R Information - Fall 2003 Get it Here - June, 2003 Get it Here   Minutes: - September 24, 2004 Get it Here - June 25, 2004 Get it Here - April 16, 2004 Get it Here - 2003 AGM Get it Here - June, 2003 Get it Here - April, 2003 Get it Here - November, 2002 Get it Here   Other Information: - Congratulations to the CITY OF SELKIRK, 2004 FCM-CH2M Winner!!! Our warm congratulations go out to Randy Borsa, Directions of Operations and the City of Selkirk for winning the SOLID WASTE category of the 2004 FCM-CH2M Sustainable Community Awards. The City of Selkirk's Solid Waste Management Plan increased diversion rates by an average of 44% and helped to extend the life of its landfill. The landfill was due to close in 2002, so the city adopted a wide-ranging plan that addressed business, commercial, institutional, and residential waste issues. A combination of municipal purchasing policies, material ban by-laws, the construction of a new transfer station, and fee-based garbage collection as well as bag limits has diverted resident ional waste by 51%. They city also initiated three-phase centralized composting program, beginning with a subsidized residential backyard composting program. Its goal is to divert 50% of waste by 2006 and 85% by 2011. Contact: Randy Borsa, Director of Operations, City of Selkirk Tel: (204) 785-4932 - SWANA Brochure - MARR Winter 2004 Membership Meeting Information - SWANA'S 2005 Canadian Praire Conference - Executive Director's Report (september) Get it Here - All info on previous and upcoming events, click here. Complete list of current MARR members