http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/8677/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/poverty-activists-hrm-recycling-proposal-puts-lowe/16584 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> &#039;This is nothing but poor-bashing&#039; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/medium_313721738_1.jpg" alt="" title="An HRM staff report calls bottle collectors scavengers and can&#039;t wait for the activity to stop (Photo: newneonunion)." width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>HALIFAX &mdash; A grassroots coalition of advocates for low-income people is upset that HRM Council is recommending that the province abandon the five-cent deposit on recyclabe bottles.</p> <p>In a letter to HRM Mayor Mike Savage, Amy Moonshadow voices her opposition in no uncertain terms.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/poverty-activists-hrm-recycling-proposal-puts-lowe/16584" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/poverty-activists-hrm-recycling-proposal-puts-lowe/16584#comments Robert Devet Poverty bottle collectors HRM poverty recycling Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:47:30 +0000 Editor 16584 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca