REgroup Relies on Mack to Keep Halifax Tidy According to the old saying, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Unless the trash hasn’t been properly sorted or put in the correct bag or bin, in which case it’s just a nuisance that must be corrected. “Nova Scotia has one of the most stringent recycling programs in all of North America,” says Alan Abraham, vice president of Royal Environmental Group (known as REgroup). That emphasis on reducing waste makes REgroup’s more complex. “In 1989 when we started, it was one truck and one bin behind your business. Now you need up to six or seven bins because we collect the waste separately, the compost separately, the cardboard separately, the blue bag separately and the construction debris separately.” Waste collection is obviously a serious bus

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