New partnership to tackle EV battery recycling

Montreal-based Lithion Recycling, Inc., and Call2Recycle Canada have will collaborate on providing electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling.

Goodwill to recycle Beer Store uniforms

Hyundai marketing fashions from manufacturing waste

Acciona claims Vancouver didn’t pay bills in spat over water plant

Corplex joins Circular Plastics

Neil Smith to head up Vanguard Renewables

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

Plastics

The plastic recycling system is broken – here’s how we can fix it

Eleni Iacovidou & Norman Ebner

Landfill gas

Landfill gas: how it forms and why it can be dangerous

Ian Williams

It’s high time we tackle methane emissions from waste

Paolo Nouvion, ESWET

Recycling

Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak

Karen Winterich, Gabriel E. Gonzales, Gergana Nenkov

In Case You Missed It

• 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

• 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

Agnico Eagle wins award for drinking water project

Drinking water project supplies 200 households and community services

News

Batteries, EV, Recycling

New partnership to tackle EV battery recycling

Montreal-based Lithion Recycling, Inc., and Call2Recycle Canada have will collaborate on providing electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling.

Recycling, Textiles

Goodwill to recycle Beer Store uniforms

Used uniforms from Ontario’s The Beer Store’s retail and logistics employees will be donated and recycled through Goodwill to ensure materials are not sent to landfills or incinerated.   This…

Automotive

Hyundai marketing fashions from manufacturing waste

Re:Style upcycling fashion project uses materials discarded during the automobile manufacturing process

Legal, Waste Treatment & Disposal, Water

Acciona claims Vancouver didn’t pay bills in spat over water plant

The Metro Vancouver regional district says it has cancelled its contract with Acciona Canada to build a wastewater treatment plant in North Vancouver, but the contractor says it is still working on the project