Plastic pollution cleanup hampered by disjointed policies

Efforts to tackle plastic pollution are still highly uncoordinated, hampered by data gaps, and focused on downstream solutions, including clean-ups, which consume significant resources that would be better invested in…

CHAR Technologies appoints new director

CHAR Technologies Ltd. has appointed Anton Szpitalak, to its board of directors. Szpitalak is co-founder and president at Pan Asia Solar, a cleantech investment platform focused on disruptive decarbonization…

Eco-tech patent filings dropping off

As the world hunts for technological solutions to climate change, the waste industry has seen the number of environment patents it files fall, according to new analysis by innovation funding specialist Catax

New film highlights waste disposal challenges on Mount Everest

New film shows how Everest visitors can help reduce the pollution in the mountains of Nepal.

New marketplace to authenticate recycled metals

Orbex has launched a marketplace for globally recognized authenticated recycled metals

Vancouver imaging startup wins BC grant

Metaspectral has secured $419,000 from the CleanBC Plastics Action Fund

Coalition sets out to improve plastics recycling rates in Canada

A coalition of plastics industry and recycling groups has launched a new initiative to improve recycling and recovery of flexible plastics in Canada

American Baler makes leadership changes

Dave Kowaleski, president and general manager of American Baler Company, is retiring in June. Dave Kowaleski Kowaleski spent 47 years at the company. Following his retirement, the company is making…

Ascend Elements begins battery recycling in Georgia

Ascend Elements has opened its first commercial-scale lithium-ion battery recycling facility.

Ocean Cleanup adds new plastic collector in Indonesia

The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit project that aims to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, will be installing a new collection device in Indonesia

Portable biochar system wins Mitacs award

Takachar, and its founder Kevin Kung, have won a Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award

GFL wins contract for new MRF in Montreal

Éco Entreprises Québec (ÉEQ) is awarding a contract to build and operate a new materials recovery facility (MRF) to Green for Life (Matrec — GFL)

SWANA tackles landfill odor control in new report

The SWANA Applied Research Foundation (ARF) has released a new report that provides guidance to control offensive odors emanating from the working face of landfills

Scientific research proves what we all knew – forests are good for us

New research has found that there is science behind the physical, mental, social and spiritual health benefits widely associated with forests and green spaces

Anaergia to supply RNG to Toyota’s California logistics centre

Anaergia Inc's subsidiary, SoCal Biomethane, has won a contract to supply renewable natural gas to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s (TMNA) Logistics Services Center at the Port of Long Beach in California