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Street flushing and sweeping operations in Ontario, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are nuisances to some people. Mechanical sweepers take too much space on the streets and move slowly adding burden to the traffic. Street flushing and sweeping programs also demand too much from residents. For one, parked cars must be kept off residential streets on a scheduled flushing and sweeping operation.

Also, garbage containers and recycle boxes must be placed away from the street during collection days. In addition, motorists are handed parking tickets and fined because of parked cars on a street with pending flushing and sweeping operation. These people remain in the dark hence the misunderstanding and negative reactions. So, why are street flushing and sweeping done?

Whether or not you’ve seen Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, a documentary about global warming, chances are you’ve read the headlines. You’ve watched the news and you know greening isn’t only important for today’s lasting impact on the earth but tomorrow’s as well.

In order to further the mindset of an eco-friendly society, what better opportunity to limit waste and promote environmentalism than starting with your very own little earth-friendly helpers? Here are several ways you can positively impact our planet by instilling green values and behaviors in your child.

With so many systems to concern yourself with, it is hard to imagine how you can stay on top of it all.

But if you take some time to develop a thorough maintenance schedule for the major systems in your building, you will avoid unnecessary repairs, reduce maintenance and replacement costs, and save time and money.

Efficient irrigation

Leaks can occur at almost any point in your irrigation system and can often be silent sources of water waste until other problems crop up (such as building infiltration and poor drainage).

Martial artists respect the efficient and effective, so I’m going to deliver my message like a well thrown punch to the nose: The martial arts world (”The Industry”) is thinking too small and it’s off course.

It’s time to slow down all the talk of sales and gross income and marketing in our industry. What we need to hear and heal this industry is smart talk from its leaders. Instead of sales chatter, let’s hear someone say, “We are being disrespectful to our planet, let’s do something about it.” Let’s hear them say, “We are massacring children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and all in the name of fear and hate and borders and religion and misunderstanding and greed. We can -and will -as a community do something about it.”

Under Section 608 of the U.S. Clean Air Act written by the EPA a number of years ago, regulations are set forth regarding the handling, recovery and recycling of refrigerants during service, maintenance, repair, or disposal.

Refrigerant gases are a major contributor to global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer because they contain harmful chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs).

As stated in Section 608, it is illegal to intentionally vent refrigerants into the air during routine maintenance, servicing, repairing, or disposal of equipment. Although refrigerants discharged during normal operation is allowable, monitoring of such systems is required.