Recycle Cape Breton

02/20/2025

Multiple summer intern positions available all over Cape Breton! Apply today.

Applications are now open for the Clean Leadership Summer Internship program by Clean Foundation supported by Divert NS! 🍃

Make an impact as a clean leader this summer, and apply for a paid internship today: https://cleanfoundation.ca/workforce-development/nscleanleadership/cl-interns/

02/18/2025

🔋National Battery Recycling Day – Keep batteries out of the bin!🔋

This fire-damaged recycling facility - Scotia Recycling in Kentville is a reminder of why batteries should NEVER go in the garbage or blue bags. ❌♻️ Batteries can spark and cause dangerous fires! 🚨

Instead, recycle them safely at a drop-off location near you:
📍 North End Building Supplies, Port Hood
📍 Strathlorne Municipal Recycling Facility
📍 École NDA, Chéticamp
📍 Brook Village Grocery
📍 Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre

Protect our recycling facilities, workers, and environment by disposing of batteries the right way.

For more information visit: https://recycleyourbatteries.ca/

12/16/2024

Our friends in the Municipality of the County of Inverness got Santa and the Grinch to help them spread an important message—no littering!

Santa sees everything—including litter! 👀🎅
Don’t be like the Grinch—throwing trash on the ground is a surefire way to land on the naughty list. Keep our streets clean this holiday season, and let’s make sure we’re all on the nice list! 🌍✨

Divert NS

10/24/2024

Happy Waste Reduction Week! 🌍 Let’s make a difference together! Remember to recycle your plastic beverage containers—it's a simple action that protects our resources and keeps our planet green. Every bottle counts! ♻️

10/21/2024

🎄♻️ Early donation drop off today and tomorrow at the municipal building, 375 Main Street, Port Hood ♻️ 🎄

Can't wait to see you all Thursday for our Christmas Swap Event! Swap ornaments, lights (must be working), decorations, clothing, cds/dvds, all things Christmas! Bayview students will be hosting a bake sale, and we’ll have an upcycled craft table where kids can create their own snowman ornaments out of bottle caps.

Let's reduce waste, share joy, and make this Christmas a little greener! 🌍✨

Divert NS

07/09/2024

GET ACTIVE - BEACH CLEAN UP BINGO

☀️ If you see the get active team in their bright yellow shirts ask them for your own beach clean up bingo cards.

Additionally you can find the bingo cards at ECRL Libraries, the Mabou Farmers Market and the Port Hood and Inverness Life Guard Huts for your chance to be one of three winners of a $25 gift card for the Mabou Farmers Market!

Contest closes July 31st☀️

07/08/2024

An interesting study done by our friends at Municipality of the County of Inverness!

07/02/2024

When enticed by the smell of something to eat, bears will overturn garbage cans, green carts and bird feeders, break into buildings or vehicles, and damage crops, orchards and beehives. If a bear is successful at obtaining food, it will continue to return, and in the process will become increasingly less afraid of people.

Here are some tips on avoiding bears:

- Store garbage indoors or in garbage boxes until collection day.

- Keep garbage containers away from dense forest cover.

- Keep barbecue grills clean and free of grease. The smell of animal fat and barbecue sauce may attract a hungry bear.

- Never put meat, fish, bones or seafood shells a backyard compost. Turn compost often to prevent odours and hasten decomposition. Apply lime to reduce odour.

For more tips, visit: https://novascotia.ca/natr/wildlife/nuisance/bears.asp

06/28/2024

06/24/2024

ACAP Cape Breton & the Municipality of the County of Inverness have teamed up to organize a community clean up event On July 3rd in Cheticamp to kick off the Municipality's Beach Clean Up Bingo event!

Hope to see you out there!

06/10/2024

Check out what they've been up to at L'Arche!♻️

The Municipality of the County of Inverness recently partnered with L'Arche Cape Breton Community to divert 40 wood pallets from landfill and create a beautiful and functional wooden table.

Our WNN reporter caught up with the municipality's Reuse and Diversion Lead, Shannon MacLean, to learn more about how they worked with community members to make waste diversion more meaningful.

Read the full story here, https://divertns.ca/learn/waste-not-news/nova-scotian-community-works-together-divert-wood-waste-landfill

05/31/2024

Amazing work Inverness County!! 👏