Batteries Canadians diverted record numbers of batteries in 2020 February 19, 2021 Despite the global pandemic impacting battery recycling habits, Canadians recycled 4.1 million kilograms of household batteries in 2020. That’s the largest amount of batteries diverted from landfills in the history…
Compost Top waste reducers revealed October 8, 2020 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
Corporate responsibility Samsung receives zero waste to landfill certification June 12, 2020 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…
Alternative Fuel Vehicles Company wins patent to turn garbage into hydrogen April 2, 2020 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…
Compost Peterborough, Ontario, to expand green bin program February 12, 2020 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…
Community action Toronto funding new round of community waste diversion programs February 10, 2020 The City of Toronto has announced a third round of its Waste Reduction Community Grants program. Grants of up to $25,000 are…
Biomass B.C. to fund expanded composting facilities February 6, 2020 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…
Diversion Project will develop zero plastic waste cities January 22, 2020 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…
Circular Economy Sims to handle e-waste for Dutch research consortium December 30, 2019 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…
Blue Box ’Tis the season to redesign and reduce our waste December 20, 2019 The holiday season has a waste problem
