University of Vermont wins solid waste design competition

UBC's Lizzie Torres won the Emerging Leader/Rising Star award.

UBC to develop post-consumer carbon-based products

The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus (UBCO) has received $1.9 million in federal funding to research how industrial waste can be converted into new products. A new…

Return-It and Ocean Wise collaborate with B.C. schools

BURNABY, B.C. – Return-It and Ocean Wise have teamed up to bring global plastic waste and ocean conservation education to secondary schools across BC. Closing the Loop on Plastics is…

SWANA cancels WASTECON for 2020

Silver Spring, MD – Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and concern for the health and safety of participants, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has cancelled the…

Reducing food waste through better packaging

VANCOUVER – Paper or plastic? Glass or tin? Or no packaging at all? A new research report from the National Zero Waste Council reveals the relationships between food waste,…

’Tis the season to redesign and reduce our waste

The holiday season has a waste problem

Inter Pipeline funding plastics research at NAIT

EDMONTON – The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is receiving $10 million over 10 years to research opportunities to reuse and recycle plastic in Canada. Inter Pipeline…

Recycling lunch contest launched

TORONTO – TerraCycle has launched the 2019 “Collection Craze” recycling challenge in partnership with the Schneiders Lunch Mate and Maple Leaf Simply Lunch brands. Designed to educate school students, teachers…

To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system

Food production and processing, transport, retail consumption, loss and waste is currently responsible for up to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions

Editorial: Wake up and smell the rot

Pulling back the curtain on the recycling industry