Ship recycler building new docks in Saudi Arabia

Wreckdock has announced it plans to develop a new ship recycling facility in Saudi Arabia

UBC researchers find way to remove PFAS from water

This refugee shelter is made from 460 kilos of recycled plastic

Lunenburg gets funding to upgrade wastewater treatment

Redwood shares results of year-long EV battery recycling trial

Irving Oil to import digester-produced RNG

Features

• Uncategorized

Vancouver gets $250 million to upgrade water treatment plant

The province of British Columbia is providing Metro Vancouver with a third of the funding to needed upgrade the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Richmond

• Biogas

Entrepreneur develops home-based biogas production technology

An entrepreneur born and raised in Yukon is about to change the way families, small communities and mining camps in northern Canada get rid of their waste

• Health and Safety

Waste worker fatalities climbed in 2022

For 2022, 46 solid waste industry worker fatalities were recorded by SWANA compared to 28 the year before

Opinions

Illegal dumping

Waste crime: How online advertising platforms are facilitating illegal dumping

Ray Purdy

Recycling

How science fiction predicted recent high-tech developments in chemistry

Mark Lorch

Plastics

Chemical plastics recycling is not a silver bullet

Richard Collins, Research Direct at IDTechEx

Advocacy

Three reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize

Adam Aron

New Products

Contaminant separator for organics

Airtight soil sample collection and sealing

High-volume screening

Heavy duty forktruck suited for recycling yards

In Case You Missed It

• Fuel

Diesel discovery promises massive savings

A 50.45% reduction in idling fuel consumption was found in independent testing

• Plastics

CIC joins in EU-funded plastic waste project

The Circular Innovation Council has partnered with the Reducing Plastic Waste in Canada project funded by the European Union

• Single use

Ont. government helping Greenlid bring production home from China

Manufacturing facility will be in Dundalk, Ontario

• 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

• Fuel

Feds funding Indigenous-led clean fuel projects

Projects will support the establishment of biomass supply chains to ensure that a steady and usable supply of sustainable feedstock is available to clean fuel production facilities across the country

• EV

Autocar testing all-electric cabover trucks

Two E-ACX electric cabover refuse trucks are going through a validation process to ensure they can handle the same challenges and requirements as their diesel and CNG counterparts

• Recovery

Renault opening truck recycling facility

This 3,000 square metre (32,000 square foot) plant will handle used Renault trucks with high mileage, along with some parts that still have substantial potential for reuse

• Plastics

BC adding $10 million in funding for plastics projects

As part of its 2022 budget, British Columbia will spend nearly $10 million on projects that will reduce the use of new plastic, expand reuse of plastics, and increase the use of post-consumer recycled plastic