Tag: Jeff Yurek
Ontario Enhancing and Expanding Blue Box Program
The Ontario government is improving blue box recycling by expanding service to more communities, standardizing the list of materials that can be recycled across...
Ontario Supports Healthy Communities that Protect Environment
The Ontario government is supporting community projects that help protect and restore the environment by investing $900,000 in grant funding through the newly enhanced...
New Funds to Conserve Ecologically Critical Areas in Ontario
The Ontario government is investing $20 million over the next four years in the Greenlands Conservation Partnership to help secure land of ecological importance...
Ontario Gasoline to be 15 Per Cent Renewable by 2030
The Ontario government is making gasoline that drivers use every day cleaner by becoming the first province to require fuel suppliers to increase the...
OPG Commits to Net Zero by 2040
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has released its Climate Change Plan that includes ambitious goals aimed at driving efficient, economy-wide decarbonization and economic renewal, while...
Ontario Calls for Comments on Hydrogen Strategy
The Ontario government has released a discussion paper for public consultation that will inform the creation of the province's first hydrogen strategy.
The paper sets...
Ontario announces new e-waste regulation and initiative
The Ontario government has introduced a new regulation that will require producers to collect and safely manage the full life-cycle of their electrical and...
Ontario Supports Major Initiative to Tackle Plastic Pollution
Today the Ontario government announced that it is providing Pollution Probe with $375,000 to support the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup initiative. the funds will...
Ontario Developing More Effective Blue Box Program
The Province of Ontario is kicking off Waste Reduction Week by unveiling regulations to improve the blue box program. The enhancements include expanding the...
Ontario government seeking input on organic waste system
The Ontario government is seeking public input on its proposal to reduce the amount of food and organic waste going to landfills. Proposed amendments...