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Generate Capital buys Stormfisher Environmental

Will be adding the company’s organics business, operating and development teams into the newly integrated Generate Upcycle platform

$65 million in grants to expand biomethane production in Quebec

Carton Council to fund projects to improve recovery in Ontario

ACE Green Recycling set to build four Li-ion recycling plants

Goodyear launches soybean oil tire

AMP opens two diversion facilities

Features

Legal

Husky Oil fined for illegal dumping

Husky Oil Operations Limited pleaded guilty to contravening the Fisheries Act for dumping waste water from its Westhazel pipeline

Batteries

NGen grant will further lithium recycling for batteries

Toronto-based Li-Metal Corp. has been granted $1.9 million as part of a $5.1 million joint project with Blue Solutions

Waste trade

OECD members still account for most plastic waste trade

A new report examines how trade in plastic waste and scrap in 2020 and early 2021 has been affected by factors such as the Covid-19 crisis, supply chain disruptions and new Basel Convention controls

Opinions

Plastics

The federal government’s zero plastic waste policy is a step in the wrong direction

Montreal Economic Institute

Community action

No time to waste: We need to start prioritizing solid waste management in First Nation communities

Anderson Assuah

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

Electronic waste experts petition for international EPR

Waste & Recycling Staff

Feedstock supply

Breaking the bottlenecks of recycled plastic content

Alberto Piovesan, Segment Manager Plastics at TOMRA Recycling

Keurig faces $3m fine over recycling claims

Made misleading claims about the recyclability of its single-use K-Cup pods

E-Waste

Greentec receives nod for updated standard

Greentec has received R2v3 – the most recent standard set for the electronics industry by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)

Equipment

Cleaning up after the floods

At the beginning of July 2021, Western Europe suffered a catastrophe due to severe flooding and rising water levels in several river basins

Tires

This company is tackling Kuwait’s ‘tire graveyard’ problem by tire recycling

More than 42 million old vehicle tires dumped in Kuwait's sands have started to be recycled

COVID-19

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

Alternative Fuel Vehicles

EPR for EV batteries feasible in Quebec

A new study suggests that existing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems in Quebec could be adapted for EV batteries

Recycling