Category
Recovery
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Feds fund four SMEs’ works on ocean plastic
OTTAWA – Four Canadian small businesses will receive grants to expand their work recycling and adapting fishing and aquaculture equipment and abandoned fishing gear into useful biodegradable products. The over $2 million in funding is part of the second phase…
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False arguments being used to promote post-consumer recycled content
Specifying pre- and post-consumer targets is counterproductive
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Four generations of salvage
Allied Salvage Metals grows with savvy equipment acquisitions
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From coffee cups to oil cans
New recycling options on both coasts
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Cleanfarms celebrates 10 years with a look to the future
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – In over a decade of program operations, Cleanfarms has recovered for recycling or proper disposal 51,600 tonnes of plastic and other non-organic waste from Canada’s agricultural sector. These materials consist of empty agricultural plastic jugs and containers;…
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The electric circle – EV battery recycling
Developing a circular economy for EV batteries is a big opportunity for Canadian companies
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Direct Pack acquires Mexican recycler
AZUSA, California – Direct Pack, Inc. (DPI) is expanding its global operations with the acquisition of Guadalajara, Mexico-based Atmosphera Verde – a facility capable of recycling 20,000 tons of PET plastic, including post-consumer PET thermoforms. It will be rebranded as…
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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…
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Audi EV battery recycling trials succeed
German car manufacturer Audi and its partner materials expert Umicore have been able to recover more than 90 percent of the cobalt and nickel in the high-voltage batteries of Audi’s e-tron vehicle. The partners will next cooperate on developing a…
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How we can recycle more buildings
The challenges of sustainable construction, industrial growth and the importance of resource efficiency are now clearly recognized by governments around the world and are now at the forefront of strategy and policy
