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12.11.2020 / 01:55

Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough installs recycling boxes for disposable masks

Plastic waste from personal protective equipment — the other coronavirus ‘plague’ Now, the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent is trying a new way to keep PPE out of the trash.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]New recycling boxes, installed in local municipal buildings, give locals a sustainable way to discard masks and gloves.Borough Mayor Alan DeSousa told Global News the program was originally just for city employees, who he says use about 2,000 masks a week in Saint-Laurent alone.He deemed it a fairly low-tech solution to a very 2020 problem, adding, “we’re just glad that we found a solution to a problem that everyone is facing!”While Saint-Laurent’s recycling program is the first, and so far,

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Coronavirus: Montreal borough plans to recycle masks and other PPE

Discarded masks and gloves have become more than just an eyesore as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, they are piling up in landfills and waterways.

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Montreal borough backtracks on controversial changes to Notre-Dame Street

The Sud-Ouest borough has backed down from changes to traffic patterns on Notre-Dame Street after numerous complaints from local merchants. Global’s Brayden Jagger Haines reports.

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Coronavirus: Montreal borough announces cancellation of summer aquatic activities

The borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro has announced its outdoor municipal and neighbourhood pools will not open this summer amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Montreal boroughs, cities, launch new social distancing measures

On Saturday morning, a new brigade hit the parks of LaSalle.

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Coronavirus: Montreal boroughs ease restrictions as the number of cases in the province rise

Montreal continues to be the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, being home to almost 14,000 of the province’s confirmed cases, and on Saturday, the city extended its state of emergency.

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Some Montreal health-care workers say they were turned away at banks, pharmacies over COVID-19

Premier François Legault hails Quebec health-care workers as “guardian angels,” but some say they are being denied services at banks and pharmacies when they reveal their occupations.

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Coronavirus: Montreal boroughs donate more than $1M to Centraide emergency fund

The City of Montreal has announced several of its boroughs have come together to donate a total of $1,140,000 to the Centraide emergency fund in order to help vulnerable people during the COVID-19 health crisis.

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