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Diversion
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Top waste reducers revealed
Packaging retailers Raja have drawn on data presented from the OECD on the treatment of countries’ municipal waste, delving into 29 countries that had data available over five years
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Samsung receives zero waste to landfill certification
SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has received UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill Gold level validation for all of its global semiconductor operation sites. Samsung’s semiconductor sites in South Korea, U.S. and China meet the requirement of more…
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Company wins patent to turn garbage into hydrogen
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Standard Hydrogen Company, Inc., has patented a process to turn garbage into pure zero-emission hydrogen fuel. The technology began as an effort to improve the way the oil and gas industry has been disposing of its…
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Peterborough, Ontario, to expand green bin program
PETERBOROUGH, Ontario – The federal government is making up to $6 million available to the City of Peterborough to develop a centralized composting centre that will divert food and waste to a new, modern facility. It is projected that it…
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Toronto funding new round of community waste diversion programs
The City of Toronto has announced a third round of its Waste Reduction Community Grants program. Grants of up to $25,000 are available to support innovative Toronto-based projects that reduce residential waste and increase participation in the City’s waste diversion…
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B.C. to fund expanded composting facilities
VICTORIA – British Columbia is partnering with the federal and local governments on a new Organics Infrastructure Program. The $30-million program will help communities expand their infrastructure, diverting organic waste away from landfills. It will also help the Province meet…
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Project will develop zero plastic waste cities
WASHINGTON – The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) is partnering with the Grameen Creative Lab to support development of Zero Plastic Waste Cities to reduce plastic waste leaking into the environment. Zero Plastic Waste Cities are being developed by…
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Sims to handle e-waste for Dutch research consortium
AMSTERDAM – SURFsara has selected Sims Recycling Solutions (SRS), a specialist in IT asset disposition and cloud recycling, as its e-waste recycling vendor. SRS will ensure that all SURFsara’s electronics are responsibly redeployed, remarketed or recycled. SRS and SURFsara have…
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’Tis the season to redesign and reduce our waste
The holiday season has a waste problem
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B.C. extends plastics consultations
VICTORIA – Because of the popularity of the CleanBC engagement about what the Province could do to ban, reduce and recycle more plastics, the Province has extended the comment period. The engagement, which was originally scheduled to close Sept. 18,…