News – 01-SEP-98 (September 01, 1998)

CompanyPhonePageReader Service NumberAmbaco Recycling Technologies905-420-046655164Blaney McMurtry Stapells Friedman416-593-397326126Busch Systems International Inc.705-722-080624124Can...

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In the waste industry, the scale is more often than not the "company cash register." If a scale is unreliable or inaccurate, customers could be over- or under-charged (both of which are bad for busine...

1998 RCO CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Tuesday, October 6th 13:00-17:00Tour Program Tour 1Tour 2Tour 3Tour 4 Packaging Reuse,Depackaging and Fibre, Tire and AggregatesCorporate 3Rs, Solar Aquatics,Food ReclamationRecycling FacilitiesRecycled Composite ICI CompostingHigh Rise Recycling TechnologyPallet Production and and Plastics ManufacturingMunicipal Disposal and Diversion 17:00-19:00Reception in Trade Show Hall (Hall C) 19:00-1:00Dine-Around-Town Wednesday, October 7th 8:30-10:00OPENING PLENARY: (Leonard Cohen Hall) WELCOMING REMARKS VALUING OUR FUTURE: A RESPONSIBLE EVOLUTION Dr. William Rees, University of British Columbia 10:00-10:30Refreshment Break / Trade Show Break (Hall C) Pierre Berton 2&3 Donald Sutherland 1&2Donald Sutherland 4&5 10:30-12:00Hitting The Targets:Beverage Container RecoveryCompleting the 3Rs A Multi-Residential Challengein Canada: UnderstandingEquation: The Organics Provincial ProgramsFactor 12:00-13:30Lunch Plenary: The Honourable Norm Sterling, Ontario Minister of the Environment (Leonard Cohen Hall) 13:30-15:30Trade Show Break (Hall C) Pierre Berton 2&3Donald Sutherland 1&2Donald Sutherland 4&5 15:30-17:00Multi-Material RecyclingThe New Economics ofBreaking The Garbage Facilities: Technology,Waste ManagementBarrier: Toronto's Waste Rationalization andManagement Options Intra-Municipal Processing 19:00-1:00RCO's 20th Birthday Celebration Dinner and Party Thursday, October 8th 8:00-8:30Continental Breakfast in Trade Show Hall (Hall C) 8:30-10:00Plenary: What's Hot (Leonard Cohen Hall) 10:00-11:00Refreshment Break / Trade Show Break (Hall C) 11:00-12:30Moving Targets: Independents' Day:HHW Stewardship: Shooting For Maximum Surviving Waste IndustryOptions for Ontario DiversionConsolidation 12:30-15:00Lunch Plenary: Dr. David Suzuki, The Nature of Things (Leonard Cohen Hall)

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Councillor Gord Landon, head of the Waste Management Task Force for York Region, Ontario, has proposed a wet-dry system to deal with the region's garbage. Export is still being considered for residue,...

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New CPRA board chair

The Canadian Polystyrene Recycling Association (CPRA) has re-elected Maurice Panchyshyn as chair of its board of directors. Panchyshyn has been involved in the packaging industry since 1959. The CPRA ...

Toronto bottle ban moves ahead

On June 15, the City of Toronto's Works and Utility's Committee approved a bylaw that would ban wine and spirit bottles from the city's curbside Blue Box recycling program effective January 1, 1999 (a...