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Eco-tech patent filings dropping off

As the world hunts for technological solutions to climate change, the waste industry has seen the number of environment patents it files fall, according to new analysis by innovation funding specialist Catax

New film highlights waste disposal challenges on Mount Everest

New marketplace to authenticate recycled metals

Coalition sets out to improve plastics recycling rates in Canada

American Baler makes leadership changes

Features

Awards

Portable biochar system wins Mitacs award

Takachar, and its founder Kevin Kung, have won a Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award

Contracts

GFL wins contract for new MRF in Montreal

Éco Entreprises Québec (ÉEQ) is awarding a contract to build and operate a new materials recovery facility (MRF) to Green for Life (Matrec — GFL)

Landfill gas

SWANA tackles landfill odor control in new report

The SWANA Applied Research Foundation (ARF) has released a new report that provides guidance to control offensive odors emanating from the working face of landfills

Opinions

Equipment

Maintain your optical sorters for optimum efficiency

Clinten van der Merwe, VP and Head of Service, TOMRA Recycling Sorting

Blue Box

Paper-based packaging leads the way for Ontario’s household blue box program

The Paper & Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council

Education

Households find low-waste living challenging. Here’s what needs to change

Rob Raven, David O. Reynolds, Jo Lindsay & Ruth Lane

Illegal dumping

Waste crime: How online advertising platforms are facilitating illegal dumping

Ray Purdy

Wastequip shrinks compactors

Contaminant separator for organics

Airtight soil sample collection and sealing

High-volume screening

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

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