garbage
Kamloops teen on mission to remove rusty cars, metal parts from shoreline
A young Kamloops woman is taking initiative to get a mess of rusted cars removed…
Kelowna and West Kelowna fined $55,000 for contaminated recycling
Kelowna and West Kelowna were fined a total of $55,000 in the last three months…
Problem bear still there, picnicking on household garbage in Kamloops
A young bear that moved into a Kamloops neighbourhood two months ago is still causing…
Abandoned homeless campsite on road to Big White Resort focus of cleanup effort
A lot of the work done by the Okanagan Forest Task Force to clean up…
Retiree has become a local celebrity in Merritt for cleaning up the city
A recently retired man who spends his days cleaning up the City of Merritt is…
iN PHOTOS: Here’s what it takes to remove 6,000 pounds of garbage from the Okanagan backcountry
The Okanagan Forest Task Force rounded up 70 to 80 volunteers last weekend to help…
iN VIDEO: ‘Absolutely disgusting’: Divers shocked by litter pulled from Penticton channel
A scuba diving team from Lake Country that hunts for trash every weekend hit the…
Divers pick trash from Okanagan Lake — including those with fins and gills
Scuba divers have been cleaning garbage out of Okanagan Lake for decades, but Amanda Fay…
Growing piles of roadside garbage in Penticton linked to overnight campers
Increasing amounts of highway garbage could be a growing secondary issue rising from homeless campers…
Central Okanagan bear-resistant garbage bins project wrapping up soon
The Regional District of the Central Okanagan is in its final stages of testing bear-resistant…
50% compostable organics in Okanagan and Kamloops goes to the dump
Growing mounds of garbage created by the growing number of people moving into the Okanagan…
iN VIDEO: The owner of this dump pile found in Kelowna may have been found
It’s not the worst individual act of illegal dumping that Kane Blake has ever seen…
COVID-19 filled up more household garbage cans in the Central Okanagan
The amount of household garbage put out for collection jumped by 20 per cent in…
More eyes are searching out illegal garbage dumpers in the forests around Kelowna
Donations are pouring into the Okanagan Forest Task Force as it ramps up its efforts…
Thompson-Nicola Regional District cancels landfill free disposal days for 2020
Thompson-Nicola residents who have been waiting for a deal on their next dump run will…