by John Mullinder | Aug 19, 2019 | Canada
Recent studies have highlighted how much food we waste (both in preparation and in the disposal of scraps) but we are also throwing away some perfectly recyclable other stuff, like paper. Why is this, and what can we do about it? Here’s a look at what Ontario...
by John Mullinder | Aug 19, 2019 | Canada
The world’s first Blue Box system was launched in Ontario over 30 years ago, went on to win a United Nations award, and today remains a convenient and easy method of collecting various materials from households and sending them on for recycling. At heart, though, the...
by John Mullinder | Aug 19, 2019 | Canada
You’ve heard of the paperless office. What about the paperless house? Not going to happen, at least, not anytime soon. The weight of paper entering our homes these days is only slightly less than it was 10 years ago. But the types of paper products we use are...
by John Mullinder | Aug 19, 2019 | Canada
It was the garbage barge that did it. Over several months in 1987, the waste-packed Mobro 4000 chugged between US ports, hoping to offload its increasingly smelly cargo. Port after port refused to accept it. Turned away by Mexico and Belize, the “most watched load of...
by John Mullinder | Aug 16, 2019 | Canada
Canadian box, bag and carton manufacturers can now print the word “Recyclable” and the Recyclable logos on their packaging, safe in the knowledge that the industry has independent, third-party proof to back up the claim. We’ve claimed recyclability for most paper...
by John Mullinder | Aug 12, 2019 | Canada
The plastic industry has made no secret of the fact that it would like to burn over a million tonnes of currently “non-recycled” plastics in Ontario alone. In strategic terms, this would remove a major solid waste problem (some 73% of residential plastic packaging in...
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