38 Solid Waste & RecyclingAugust/September 1998

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Red Tape and the Transboundary Business

The transboundary movement of municipal and industrial, commercial, and institutional (IC&I) waste is about to become further entangled by more red tape and fees. Bill C-32 will soon replace the exist...

Adams Mine site approved

The Adam's Mine, near Kirkland Lake, Ontario has been approved for use as a landfill site. The long-awaited decision of the province's Environmental Assessment Board is significant for the Rail Cycle ...

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Backs Deposits (September 01, 1998)

In 1995, the Province of Nova Scotia introduced a new Environment Act, which provides for the use of economic instruments. The constitutionality of Section 16 of the Solid Waste-Resource Management Re...

Alberta's Deposit-Refund System

Eighty per cent container recovery at 0.8 cents per unit soldThe net cost of deposit-refund systems for beverage containers is the subject of intense debate. Some suggest that deposit-refund systems o...

Composting EDUCATION

Essentially, composting is a controlled biological process in which a succession of microbial elements, helped by moisture and air, convert organic material into a clean, fertile byproduct similar to ...

Not a Penny for Paint

Something that comes to mind when you tour TCR Environmental Corp.'s waste processing plant in Aylmer Ontario (between Toronto and London) is the old engineering adage "not a penny for paint," meaning...

"Wittke is the talk of the town dump."

Our customers can't stop talking about Wittke garbage trucks and containers. Who can blame them, they're excited about increased legal payloads, minimal down time and minimal repair and maintenance co...

TCR Award Winning. A unique view of a great success story. Diversion from landfill up to 80%. Collection cost reduction up to 30%. Overall system cost lowest in the province. A unique view of a great success story. Diversion from landfill up to 80%. Collection cost reduction up to 30%. Overall system cost lowest in the province.

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Case will test "waste" definition

Green Lane Environmental, in Lambeth, Ontario and its owner, Robert McCaig, have been charged by the provincial environment ministry with four violations of the Environmental Protection Act. Charges i...