Packaging Digital watermarks being tested for recycling packages June 10, 2022 The Circular Plastic Taskforce (CPT) and Digimarc Corporation are working together to test Digimarc Recycle for optimizing the sortation of flexible plastic packaging in Canada
GHGs Feds incentivize carbon reduction with GHG offset system June 9, 2022 Municipalities and landfill operators will be able to generate offset credits for recovering landfill gas
Appointments Enerkem appoints Luc Messier as COO June 8, 2022 Luc Messier has been appointed as Enerkem's first chief operating officer
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Greenlane wins new U.S. biogas contract June 7, 2022 Greenlane Biogas North America Ltd., has been awarded a contract for $8.7 million for a dairy manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) project
Bans Metro plans plastic bag ban by September June 6, 2022 All Metro's food and pharmacy banners will stop offering single-use plastic shopping bags this September, if they can get enough reusable bags
Plastics Plastic waste set to triple by 2060 June 3, 2022 The amount of plastic waste produced globally is on track to almost triple by 2060, with around half ending up in landfill and less than a fifth recycled, according to a new OECD report
Landfill gas FortisBC to produce RNG at Prince George landfill June 2, 2022 FortisBC expects to produce approximately 90,000 gigajoules of RNG a year from this project over its 20-year contract, starting 2024
Food Waste reduction Quebec start-up commercializing biosurfactant production June 1, 2022 Dispersa is scaling the world's first waste-derived biosurfactants in the market for greener cleaning and personal care products
Diversion Recycling technology to reduce waste in wallboard production May 31, 2022 Saint-Gobain has installed recycling technology at its gypsum wallboard plant in Nashville, Arkansas, which will allow the plant to recycle and reuse 65,000 tons of materials per year
Contracts Graham wins contract to upgrade Sask. water plant May 30, 2022 Graham and its joint venture partner Aecon have been awarded a $273 million construction contract for the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant Renewal Project
Textiles TerraCycle achieves recycling standard May 27, 2022 Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (Bureau Veritas) has certified two of TerraCycle U.S. waste streams under the Recycled Claim Standard as published by the Textile Exchange. “I am pleased to…
Water Anaergia upgrading Petawawa’s digesters May 25, 2022 Anaergia will upgrade the existing anaerobic digesters located at Petawawa’s Water Pollution Control Plant
Food Waste reduction Surplus food app expands to Edmonton May 24, 2022 Too Good To Go has launched in Edmonton two months after starting in Calgary
Batteries Li-Cycle opens plant in Arizona May 20, 2022 Li-Cycle’s Arizona Spoke facility processes full EV battery packs without dismantling them manually
Mergers and Acquisitions Generate Capital buys Stormfisher Environmental May 19, 2022 Will be adding the company’s organics business, operating and development teams into the newly integrated Generate Upcycle platform
