Toronto Waste Management

• Toronto unveils contingency plan for potential labour disruption involving outside workers

  Their jobs include garbage and recycling collection, water treatment, road maintenance and snow clearing.

  Politics

  Feb 20, 2020
  
• 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
  
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• Toronto recycling: Why so much material still goes to landfill

  It's been 30 years since Toronto introduced the blue box. The City of Toronto says people for the most part are finally "getting it," but as packaging products continue to change what residents hope will be recycled, in many cases, will end up in landfill.

  Environment

  Mar 26, 2019
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• Toronto targeting recycling contamination with bin inspections

  Roughly 26 per cent of what gets put out on the curb as recycling turns out to be garbage, costing the city millions.

  Canada

  Dec 12, 2017