How do you know whether your recyclables are actually being recycled rather than being dumped at a landfill like this one in Canterbury, U.K.? See more landfill images.
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Glass may still be collected from homes at curbside – just less often – after the industry-led agency charged with taking over blue box recycling proposed a possible compromise.
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Protesters who want Metro Vancouver to abandon plans for a new garbage incinerator demonstrated today outside a waste-to-energy (WTE) industry conference in Richmond.
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Bolstered by a new study, Canada’s plastic industry seems to approach the issue of landfilled plastic with a ‘life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ philosophy — that is, recovering energy… Read More
By Toby Gorman – Nanaimo News Bulletin (view source article)
A radical new plan that will change how blue box recycling materials are collected, processed and marketed is now before… Read More
Compostable organics can be diverted, converted into energy and turned into fertilizer
By Brock MacDonald, Vancouver Sun
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A truckload of solid waste approaches a waste-to-energy facility in south Burnaby.
Photograph by: Ian Lindsay , Vancouver Sun files
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