Laura Baziuk reports: Officials in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley plan to use camera-equipped garbage trucks to film what gets dumped in order to make sure people are recycling properly. Since the introduction last year of a three-bin system, providing garbage, recycling and yard waste bins, waste contamination has become a big problem, said Peter Rotheisler, manager…
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Sunday World editor: Wright piper ‘forfeited privacy’
A man who played the pipes at Billy Wright’s funeral abandoned his right to privacy when he became involved in the murder of a Sunday World journalist, its editor has alleged in court. Drew King was charged with murdering Martin O’Hagan. The charges were later dropped. He is claiming damages against the Sunday World for…
In: National ID card project subject to court order
The High Court on Tuesday held that implementation of a multipurpose national identity card scheme will be subject to the final outcome of a writ petition challenging the same. Hearing the PIL filed by Sunil Sharma and others, who have sought the High Court’s directions to prevent the “sub-standard cards”, the division bench headed by…
UK: Bin spies, yet again
Alex Deane writes: Just what is it with bureaucrats? They simply can’t stay out of dustbins! In the aftermath of our research, which showed that some 2.6 million households up and down the country had microchips installed in their dustbins (and none of them had been asked), the new Government banned “pay as you throw” schemes….