Recycling In Canada

• Calgary continuing single-use plastics report despite federal ban

  Despite the announcement of a federal ban, Calgary is continuing with a scoping report on how to reduce or eliminate the use of single-use plastic items.

  Environment

  Jun 11, 2019
  
• Trudeau eyeing a Canadian ban on single-use plastics by 2021

  Plastic forks and takeout containers could become a thing of the past under a new Liberal process to consider a ban on single-use plastics.

  Canada

  Jun 10, 2019
  
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• Lacombe ends curbside recycling, searches for viable alternative

  The city ended curbside recycling pickup at the end of May after the contract expired for the previous waste management company.

  News

  Jun 7, 2019
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• Filipino ambassador and consuls in Canada recalled until garbage is shipped back

  Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. tweeted Thursday that the Philippines "shall maintain a diminished diplomatic presence in Canada until its garbage is ship bound there."

  Canada

  May 16, 2019
• Canada to pay full cost of bringing garbage home from Philippines

  Canada has agreed to pay the full cost of bringing 69 garbage-laden shipping containers back across the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver - but it remains unclear just how much that will be.

  World

  May 7, 2019
• Canada makes formal offer to bring home trash that Philippines threatened ‘war’ over

  The roughly six dozen containers will be shipped back to the Port of Vancouver if the offer is accepted.

  Canada

  May 2, 2019
• Canada’s recycling industry is on life-support. Here’s how to fix it

  B.C. is the only place in Canada where producers pay for and run the recycling system, and the success is evident. But is it enough — or is it also time for governments to step in?

  Canada

  May 1, 2019
• The losing economics of recycling: Canada’s green industry is deep in the red

  In today’s bleak new reality, the price for recyclables — things like plastic, paper and aluminum — has tanked. The business model was feasible before. Now, it’s a burden.

  Canada

  Apr 30, 2019
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• Is Canada’s recycling industry broken?

  As plants struggle to sell the plastics, paper and other materials they've collected, Canada's recycling industry is having its moment of reckoning.

  Investigations

  Apr 29, 2019
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• Toronto recycling: Contamination in blue bins on the rise

  It's where all of Toronto's blue bin material ends up for sorting and processing, but 30 per cent of what we put into the blue bin heads to landfill because of contamination.

  Environment

  Mar 27, 2019