Appointments Ontario’s RPRA promotes Mary Cummins January 18, 2022 Mary Cummins will take over as registrar of the Ontario Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) on February 1, 2022
Plastics Eastman spending US$1 billion on recycling plant in France January 17, 2022 material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France will use Eastman's polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) eTracks rolls out PRO services to tire industry January 13, 2022 Sustainable Recovery Platform (eSRP) rolled out to over 6,500 Ontario tire collection sites, 100 service providers and over 50 producers
E-Waste Greentec receives nod for updated standard January 12, 2022 Greentec has received R2v3 – the most recent standard set for the electronics industry by Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI)
Appointments New senior appointments at NWMO January 11, 2022 Derek Wilson and Chris Boyle named to executive team
Blue Box Ontario’s 2022 blue box funding set January 10, 2022 New methodology will ensure higher payouts to municipalities, First Nations and recycling associations participating in the Blue Box Program
Legal Keurig faces $3m fine over recycling claims January 7, 2022 Made misleading claims about the recyclability of its single-use K-Cup pods
Biogas Greenlane lands international biogas contracts January 6, 2022 Greenlane Renewables Inc. has signed two new biogas upgrading system supply contracts worth $7.1 million
Acquisitions York1 acquires Aces January 5, 2022 Aces provides waste management services in Ontario's Muskoka, Parry Sound and Haliburton areas
Associations SWANA publishing newsletter in French January 4, 2022 Safety Matters newsletter is the first SWANA publication to be translated for Quebec market
Batteries Stelco to begin car battery recycling January 3, 2022 Steel-maker Stelco will commercialize electric vehicle battery recycling and processing technologies. The company will work with Primobius GmbH to commercialize Primobius’s proprietary electric vehicle battery recycling and processing technologies…
Acquisitions Chevron Phillips buys into plastics recyclers December 31, 2021 Six Pines Investments LLC, a wholly owned, sustainable investment subsidiary of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) has made an equity investment in Nexus Circular LLC and Mura Technology Ltd.
Biogas FortisBC awards biogas deal to Greenlane December 30, 2021 New project at the Vancouver landfill
Biogas Third digester gives London Canada’s largest anaerobic facility December 29, 2021 With its third digester now online, Stormfisher’s London, Ontario, facility is now the largest food waste anaerobic digestion facility in Canada. The new digester is accompanied by a renewable natural…
Agriculture RNG producer instrumental in BC flood cleanup December 28, 2021 EverGen’s composting and organic processing facility stayed open to process agricultural waste generated by the flooding
