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Emterra contractors walk out in Peel

Waste collection contractors have walked off the job in Peel Region, just west of Toronto, in a labour dispute involving Emterra Environmental

15 organizations join Canada Plastics Pact

Red Leaf wins federal funding

Ontario launches excess soil registry

Green Impact Partners unveils new RNG project

Features

Fleet management

Prevent breakdowns, stay efficient

A 5-step guide to selecting a heavy-duty engine oil

Environment

Reducing waste in Antarctica

The GARS O'Higgins (German Antarctic Receiving Station) research station needed to reduce the amount of waste stored on site.

Business Operations

Covid crisis makes waste collector stronger

For refuse collector Waste Connections, business may never return to how it was before the Covid-19 pandemic

Opinions

Batteries

Why OEMs are investing in LIB recycling

IDTechEx

Plastics

Risk of devastating ‘own goals’ in the plastics supply chain

Polymer Comply Europe (PCE) / Polymers for Europe Alliance on behalf of European Plastics Converters (EuPC)

Regulatory Development

EU Waste Shipment Regulation should not incentivize landfill capacity

European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology

Construction, Renovation and Demolition (CRD)

We have reusable cups, bags and bottles: so why are our buildings still single use?

Charles Gillott

Waste & Recycling Expo Canada postponed

Event will be held September 27 – 28, 2022, at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario

Blue Box

Ontario rolls out new blue box program

Will standardize accepted materials and increase producer responsibility

Awards

Montrealer wins Mitacs innovation award

Ulrich Legrand recognized for technology that turns captured CO2 gas into high value chemicals

Circular Economy

Goose poop beer on tap in Finland

Brewery in Lahti celebrates Green Capital status with unique suds

Charity

Food bank diverts a million pounds from landfill

Second Harvest has recovered more than a million pounds of surplus food from Manitoba food businesses

Uncategorized

French city deploys AI to manage bins

Since July 2020, 200 bins that collect waste from 13 waste disposal centres in the French city of Toulouse have been equipped with embedded artificial intelligence

Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Lion Electric to build trucks in U.S.

Plant will have annual production capacity of up to 20,000 all-electric buses and trucks

Awards