This article on Ontario’s beverage container recovery program concludes the series on Canada’s provincial programs. Like Manitoba, Ontario municipalities rely solely on their curbside program to recover beverage containers. Though established in 1986 it was only in 1992 that the provincial government passed a regulation mandating the municipal provision of “Blue Box” collection. The 3Rs […]
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Used Oil Recovery Programs (2000)
Update on Programs Across Canada Roughly on billion litres of lubricating old are sold in Canada each year. About half the oil is consumed during use; the remainder is either disposed (e.g., burned, used as a dust suppressant on roads or imporperly poured down drains) or recovered, reused and recycled through re-refining. In addition to […]
Pied Piper: Where is Plastic Packaging Leading Us? (2000)
The Canadian plastics industry grew by 45 per cent between 1986 and 1997 — a growth rate three times that of other manufacturing industries and second only to electronics. With a total capacity of about 3.5-million tonnes of resin per annum, this economic behemoth accounted for $35.9-billion of economic activity last year. Plastic is truly […]
