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Investment
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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 cleantech hub will be located in UBC’s Innovation Precinct, a 60-acre zone…
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GFL and Spruce Point trade barbs
GFL Environmental Inc. fired back at Spruce Point Capital Management on August 18, 2020, after the New York-based investment management company issued a report claiming GFL executives have ties to organized crime and the company’s shares “face 100% downside risk”.…
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Metro Compactor Service joins MaRS Momentum
TORONTO – Metro Compactor Service is one of 53 companies joining the MaRS Momentum Program. The program is designed to support high growth science and technology companies in Canada on their path to becoming global powerhouses, with the potential to…
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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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Three companies win plastics innovation funding
VANCOUVER – Three Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses will receive $1 million each to develop prototypes of their new technologies designed to address plastic waste from food packaging and construction. The three winners of the Plastics Innovation Challenges sponsored by…
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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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Municipalities funded for waste management trials and studies
OTTAWA – Under new federal funding, several municipalities across the country will be able to improve their waste management game. The Municipality of Landrienne, in the Abitibi Region of Quebec, will receive $465,100 to test a thermophilic composter to divert…
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Ontario’s Continuous Improvement Fund considering proposals for 2020
TORONTO – On August 15, 2019, Ontario’s Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks directed the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) and Stewardship Ontario (SO) to develop a windup plan for the Blue Box Program Plan (BBPP) by June 30,…
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Fourteen cleantech startups receive federal funding
RICHMOND, B.C. – Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is investing $46.3 million in 14 start-up companies across Canada to support innovations that are tackling climate change, and helping build sustainability. The Minister made the announcement at Richmond, B.C.-based RecycleSmart Solutions, which is…
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Lefebvre Industri-AL perfecting dross recovery
BAIE-COMEAU, QC – Since 2014, Lefebvre Industri-AL’s team has been developing an innovative, non-polluting process to recover 100 percent of aluminum dross, while eliminating the production of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and use of polluting salts. In concrete terms, this process…