Sustainability movement is disrupting the plastics industry

The growing global plastics sustainability movement is one of the biggest potential disruptors for the plastics industry and is putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk

Being Social

Waste management companies use social media to inform and support cost cutting

Plastics sustainability movement disrupting the industry

Putting future plastics resin demand and billions of dollars of industry investments at risk

U of T students study Don River garbage

Trying to understand how much trash comes down the Don River and enters Lake Ontario

Earth Overshoot Day is August 1, 2018

The earliest date since ecological overshoot started in the early 1970s

Volvo showcases an electric future

The global manufacturer announced that it will produce electric versions of European FL and FE models beginning in 2019, initially focusing on refuse and urban distribution applications

We have no idea how much microplastic is in Australia’s soil (but it could be a lot)

Norwegian research estimates that in Europe and North America, between 110,000 and 730,000 tonnes of microplastic are transferred to agricultural soils each year.

Lethbridge studying landfill gas options

Within the dark underbelly of consumerism, percolating in the bowels of the build environment disposal site, lies a potential resource. Mind you, it’s about perspective. What was once thought of as landfill flatulence, may now be considered the crown jewel of alternative energy.

Toronto may take from curb to fuel tank

The City of Toronto is developing renewable natural gas (RNG) infrastructure that has the potential to represent a fully closed-carbon loop that could fuel its fleet from modified biogas…

Unzipping polystyrene’s potential

“We are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution. We’ve turned from extracting from the ground for energy to using those products again. We’ve been zipping the products. Now we need to unzip them and return them to the chemical stage."