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The people of British Columbia can be proud to live in a province that has the most advanced and integrated processes for the management of residential recycling of anywhere in Canada. It is a [...]

For decades, Canadians tossed their recyclables into blue bins and never looked back. But with China cutting its imports of scrap plastic by 96 per cent, Canada’s recycling industry is [...]

New technology may soon fill the gap by launching a wave of “upcycling” that takes plastics now considered hard to recycle economically and turns them into something much more valuable. Source: [...]

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: [...]

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: [...]

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. [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

Source: www.cbc.ca/news/technology/we-need-to-rethink-the-entire-plastics-industry-why-banning-plastic-straws-isn-t-enough-1.4628160

‘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 [...]