An increase in plastic debris floating in a zone between Hawaii and California is changing the environment of at least one marine insect, scientists report.

Questions are being raised about garbage management after 145 black bears were shot by wildlife officers in northern Alberta's oilsands region last year.

Two garbage truck drivers in the Okanagan say they have been fired after speaking to the media about a surveillance camera installed on the front windshield of a company dump truck.

Debris from Japan's earthquake and tsunami is now littering the beach of Haida Gwaii, raising concerns about who is going to clean up the tonnes of garbage expected to wash ashore on the West Coast.