Tag: plastics pollution
Government of Canada announces new Federal Plastics Registry on Earth Day
Less than 10 per cent of plastics in Canada are recycled, with the rest ending up in landfills and often on our beaches, in...
NOVA Chemicals and Plastic Energy launch recycling plant feasibility study
NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Plastic Energy have entered into an agreement to explore the feasibility of developing a pyrolysis-driven advanced recycling facility in Sarnia,...
Big plastic fights government efforts to curb plastic pollution
Environmental groups are in court this week (March 7 - 9) to support the Canadian government’s efforts to fend off an industry-led effort to...
Ban on harmful single-use plastics now in effect
Following the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the Government of Canada reaffirmed its commitment to...
New partners confirmed for Canada Plastics Pact
Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) has welcomed six new Partners in Q3 of 2022 who are uniting under the CPP's shared action plan to build...
The Cost of Plastic Pollution: How economic instruments can address recovery...
The problem of plastic pollution is gaining increasing attention from the media, from politicians, from scientists, from environmentalists, and, hopefully, from the public. However,...
Steps taken toward better recycling and resource recovery across Canada
The Government of Canada is continuing to bring forward new measures to better manage plastic and move towards its goal of zero plastic waste...
National ban on harmful single-use plastics comes into effect soon
Today, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, and Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, published final regulations to prohibit single-use plastics including: checkout...
Scientists call for cap on production to end plastic pollution
An international group of experts says the production of new plastics should be capped to solve the plastic pollution problem. The authors argue that...
NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem advance commercialization of chemical recycling tech
NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Enerkem Inc. are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta, thanks in part...