Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Essential Connections: Managing soils and construction concerns
Are you taken aback by the amount of construction occurring in Toronto? Residents, commuters and visitors can’t help but notice the high volume of cranes…
resource recovery
YORK1 acquisition strengthens market position in GTA
Mississauga, ON-based YORK1, a leading provider of environmental services, recently announced the acquisition of First Choice Disposal. This strategic move enhances YORK1’s service offerings and…
B.C.’s Indigenous zero waste advisors embark on resource recovery partnership
The Indigenous Zero Waste Technical Advisory Group (IZWTAG), an Indigenous organization assisting First Nations in British Columbia with implementing zero waste programs, announced today that…
Landmark event for waste to resource industry provides latest thought leadership
The recent Waste to Resource Ontario’s (W2RO) 2023 Canadian Waste to Resource Conference (CWRC), held at the Blue Mountain Resort, marked a significant milestone in…
Canadian Waste to Resource Conference to provide strategic insights
The waste, recycling and resource recovery sector in Ontario contributes more than $4.23 billion to the provincial economy and employs about 33,327 people. On April…
New soil relocation rules now in effect for British Columbia
The British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy has released new regulations for soil relocation in B.C. effective March 1, 2023. The provincial…
Trucking Right Along: Ontario’s excess soil laws and considerations for the construction industry
For decades, many involved in land development and construction struggled with how to interpret Ontario’s regulation of excavated soil. Stakeholders had many common questions. When…
The Cost of Plastic Pollution: How economic instruments can address recovery and prevention
The problem of plastic pollution is gaining increasing attention from the media, from politicians, from scientists, from environmentalists, and, hopefully, from the public. However, unlike…
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 by…
Study: slow global warming by using compost as fertilizer
A new study led from the University of Waterloo discovered greenhouse gas production is significantly less when bio-based residues like compost replaces widely used nitrogen…
Regulation Roundup: How to manage excess soil through “the pause” in Ontario
Whether it is transit lines, highway construction, or pipelines, new infrastructure projects in Ontario are being proposed daily and they are essential to keeping communities…
Recycled rubber from scrap tires supports 13 new projects in B.C.
The Tire Stewardship BC (TSBC), a not-for-profit group dedicated to the collection and recycling of scrap tires in British Columbia, recently confirmed the 13 B.C.…
Resource Recovery: Contemplating the controversy over compostable plastic packaging systems
What happens to organic waste in Canada? With both aerobic and anaerobic digestion, the final product — compost — is sometimes sold to farms, plant…