Agricultural specialist Lise LeBlanc has spent the last 12 years on a mission to turn waste into resource. She’s been working with Canadian farmers for 30 years, helping them implement manure, lime, wood ash, and N-Viro plans. While her extensive agricultural research showed compost to be “the next logical step” in improving soil health, she couldn’t believe hardly any farmers were using it. Read More
The Divert NS Business Innovators summit was held October 11, 2017. Read More
A study by the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia (RANS), funded by Divert NS, has the potential to improve waste diversion practices in restaurants across the province. Read More
On March 2, 2017, leaders from business, academia, not-for-profit and government came together in Halifax to dig deeper into a pressing social, economic and environmental issue: food waste. The Food Waste Summit, held by Divert NS and sponsored by Nova Scotia Environment and Walmart Canada, convened... Read More
Under the direction of Paul Arnold, Assistant Professor, Acadia University’s Ivan Curry School of Engineering was awarded a grant to study the impact of composting waxed paper products on the process and quality of compost. Read More
