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Food & consumer products group fires back
Food & Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC) has responded to Rob Cook, CEO of the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) and the letter he circulated recently to Ontario provincial members of parliament and other stakeholders, which was published on this…
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OWMA response to FCPC position on Ontario's Waste Reduction Act
As was stated in a cover letter today from Peter Hargreave, Director, Policy & Strategy for the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) — of which I am Chief Executive Officer — it has been brought to our attention that there are many…
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Thoughts on the Arctic 30
By now most readers have heard of the “Arctic 30” — a group of Greenpeace protesters plus two journalists who have been detained by Russian authorities and charged with “piracy” for their involvement in staging a protest in the Arctic,…
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Mr. Bradley and Premier Wynne – On Bill 91, go back and start again*
(Note: A Summary of Opposition Comments on Bill 91 as of October 3, 2013 follows this blog post.) In early June 2013, the Honourable Jim Bradley, Ontario Minister of the Environment tabled Bill 91, the proposed Waste Reduction Act. Despite…
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Reflections on the Architects of Human-made Disasters; or Why Overlaps Often aren’t such a Bad Thing
By David McRobert (with contributions from Meghan Robinson and Sharon Sam) For decades I have struggled with an illusive, demanding and unforgiving mistress who has kept up me many nights: my muse asks, “David how can we balance economic goals…
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New info from an in-depth article on the Deepwater Horizon spill
Our sister publication HazMat Management focuses on contaminated site cleanup, new technology and pollution abatement. We have a strong readership (and growing) in the oil & gas sector, and in oil services companies. So I thought an in-depth article that appeared on…
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Back to the Future: The Beer Store’s Recycling Plus in Perspective
Image: Sung, One of North Toronto’s numerous soft drink can recyclers, July 2012. Photo credit: David McRobert. Authors’ Note: This blog was drafted on February 17th but I was unable to load it due to technical and software…
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Thoughts on robots
Something I read a while back about the future contained the amusing line, “Where are the darn robots already!” This line harkened back to front covers of Popular Mechanics magazines with the “family of the future” flying about in UFO-like…
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Hurricane Sandy, the Berkeley Earth Studies and Climate Change Doubts
While one can turn the Berkeley Earth story into a tale of the triumph for climate activists, it is, in truth, a triumph of science. It shows us what scientists can achieve when they put aside personal biases and focus on the search for greater certainty.
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Waste essay by Wendell Berry
Bill Sheehan of the Product Policy Institute (www.productpolicy.org) forwarded this 1990 essay by Wendell Berry (care of David Stitzhal), and I share it with you. “There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag…