We were struck by a sentence in the recently released draft Strategy for a Waste Free Ontario. Not by what was said, but rather by what was not said. In a chapter titled Transforming Ontario into a Leader, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change pays tribute to the Blue Box: “an internationally recognised recycling […]
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A major produce retailer in Canada has decided that the growers who supply it with fresh fruit and vegetables should choose which container to deliver their produce in, the traditional corrugated box or a reusable plastic crate, rather than the retailer telling them which one to use. This is a significant development in the crate
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Dans un article par ailleurs intéressant sur la responsabilité individuelle des producteurs (RIP), Tom Chervinsky a commis une bourde statistique. Je ramollis, voyez-vous. J\’ai dit bourde au lieu de parler de dénigrement. Chervinsky n\’est certainement pas le premier, et il ne sera pas le dernier, à batifoler avec les faits. Il commence de belle façon
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The Toronto Star ran a front page story over the weekend lambasting Ontario’s tire stewardship body (OTS) for spending “thousands of dollars on wine tasting, meals at fine restaurants, a boat cruise, luxury hotels, and donations to political (parties).” The newspaper huffed in its “little piggies at the trough” depiction that OTS was operating without
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Le week-end dernier, la une du Toronto Star critiquait vertement Ontario Tire Stewardship (OTS), l’organisme ontarien chargé de gérer les pneus en fin de vie utile, pour avoir « dépensé des milliers de dollars en dégustations de vin, repas gastronomiques, croisière, hôtels de luxe et dons à des partis politiques ». Le journal monte en épingle le
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It’s easy to describe plastics as the problem child of the Ontario Blue Box. Just look at the chart below. Its generation continues to increase; its volume fills trucks and landfills; its net cost to recycle is more than three times that of paper packaging; almost 70% of it heads to the dump. While the
The more plastics you add to Ontario’s Blue Box, the more it costs Read More »
L\’industrie du carton ondulé tiendrait des propos alarmistes sur la salubrité des aliments, selon le lobby des caisses de plastique réutilisables, qui a de toute évidence été piqué par la publication d\’une autre étude qui met en doute la qualité du nettoyage des caisses de plastique entre les utilisations et laisse entendre qu\’elles ne sont
The corrugated box industry is just fear-mongering about food safety, according to the reusable crate lobby, which has obviously been stung by the release of yet another study questioning whether, and how well, crates are being cleaned between uses. The latest study by Dr. Steven Ricke’s team at the Department of Food Science at the
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In the course of an otherwise interesting article on Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR), Tom Chervinsky makes a statistical boo-boo. See, I am mellowing. I didn’t call it package bashing. Chervinsky is certainly not the first, and won’t be the last, to play footsie with the facts. He starts out well, observing that the percentage of
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Un important détaillant de produits alimentaires du Canada a décidé de laisser le libre choix aux producteurs agricoles qui l\’approvisionnent en fruits et légumes frais entre la traditionnelle boîte de carton ondulé et la caisse de plastique réutilisable au lieu d\’imposer le type de contenants dans lesquels ils livrent leurs produits. Il s\’agit d\’un fait
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