Angel >> Conscientious Quebec recyclers

The Association of Quebec Brewers were happy to note in a recently released report that over 90 per cent of recyclable bottles are indeed brought back to stores and reused. Each bottle is reused between 16 and 18 times, with an average life expectancy of four years, meaning that, to quaff our thirst, Quebec only needs 360-million bottles to meet the 1.3-billion sold each year. By comparison, however, recycling paper and plastic have only a 25 to 30 per cent recycling success rate.

Insect >> Canada’s skyrocketing food bank dependency

The number of Canadians who are dependent on food banks has almost doubled over the last 13 years, from 378,000 in 1989—when Parliament vowed to eliminate child hunger by 2000—to 718,000 today. This comes amid revelations that half of Montreal’s children under five are going to bed hungry, according to a local food bank. Meanwhile, world leaders and bureaucrats gather in Rome for a conference organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to talk more about halving the number of the world’s hungry to 400-million, something it first pledged five years ago. The number hasn’t changed.