China looks to turn ban on foreign trash into growth opportunity
China has a plan designed to clean up the world’s biggest pile of waste, one that’s been building across the country for decades Source: [...]
Canadian cities losing revenue and scrambling to find new markets for recyclables | CBC News
China’s new rules that seriously restrict or straight out ban foreign waste have Canadian municipalities struggling to find places to ship their recyclables. Source: [...]
Many Canadians are recycling wrong, and it’s costing us millions | CBC News
Canadians are throwing too much garbage into their blue bins, sometimes with the best of intentions. It’s a problem costing millions of dollars and making many would-be recyclables unrecyclable. [...]
This is what a recycling crisis in Quebec looks like
Sherbrooke’s recycling plant, Recup-Estrie is drowning in a sea of untreated plastic, paper and metal after a dispute with its sorting company shut down operations for nearly two weeks. Source: [...]
How to recycle the ‘unrecyclable,’ from cigarette
If you’re feeling guilty about the mountains of coffee pods or squeeze pouches you’re tossing in the trash, there are ways recycle those and many other “unrecyclable” items. Here’s how — and why [...]
We need to rethink the entire plastics industry
Source: www.cbc.ca/news/technology/we-need-to-rethink-the-entire-plastics-industry-why-banning-plastic-straws-isn-t-enough-1.4628160
Pay-as-you-throw fees and 4 more ways to reduce waste
‘It shouldn’t be free to pollute’: Charge for packaging, study suggests. Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our [...]
111 million tonnes of plastic waste
Earlier this year, China stopped taking much of the world’s recyclable plastic waste. Now a new study suggests that by the year 2030, an estimated 111 million tonnes of plastic waste will [...]