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Share, reuse, repair hub opens for York Region

Funded by The Regional Municipality of York’s Circular Economy Initiatives Fund, the online hub provides tools and resources

SWANA announces award recipients

BC adding $10 million in funding for plastics projects

Jacqueline Dedo joins Li-Cycle board

Gorilla Bins seeking new franchisees

Features

Hazardous Materials

RPRA helping organizations prepare for registry opening in November

On November 15, 2022, Ontario's RPRA’s Hazardous Waste Program (HWP) Registry will open for generators, carriers and receivers of industrial hazardous or liquid waste to set up their registry accounts

Emterra to use electric truck in Ontario’s Peel region

Emterra Group recently ordered a Mack LRElectric Class 8 refuse vehicle

Digesters

Construction under way for Oshawa digester project

Evergreen Environmental broke ground on an anaerobic digester in Oshawa on Tuesday. Left to right: Ward Janssens, CEO & president…

Opinions

Food Waste reduction

Scrapping use-by dates could prevent huge amounts of food waste – here’s what else could help

Lingxuan Liu

Fast fashion: why your online returns may end up in landfill – and what can be done about it

Patsy Perry

Batteries

Can electric vehicle batteries be recycled?

Serge Pelissier

Micro-plastic

Why pineapple leaves are a promising candidate to replace plastic materials used in single-use masks

Dwi Umi Siswanti & Tiara Putri

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