The current debate over what to do about Ontario’s Blue Box frequently confuses at least four distinct but interrelated issues: waste management in general; the recycling option; the relative roles of industry and householders; and the nature of the Blue Box program itself. First, the broader context. The Blue Box program is just one waste collection system, […]
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La volonté de délaisser les combustibles fossiles s’accélère, et c’est probablement le bois et le papier qui en bénéficieront le plus. Cela pourrait surprendre ceux qui observent une baisse marquée de la consommation de journaux et la disparition de la correspondance par la poste (vous souveniez-vous que ça existait?) Mais, en fait, même si la pandémie actuelle a sans aucun doute stimulé l’utilisation de boîtes ondulées
L’avenir, c’est le bois et le papier Read More »
The drive to get out of fossil fuels is picking up pace. And the most likely beneficiaries are wood and paper. This may come as a surprise to some people who see steep declines in newspaper consumption and a complete fall-off in letter writing (remember that?). But, in fact, while the current pandemic has certainly
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The Forest Stewardship Council of Canada recently had some rare words of praise for the Canadian paper packaging industry! “Here in Canada,’’ wrote President and CEO Francois Dufresne in a blog, “our packaging industry uses the largest portion of recycled fibres of any forestry sector – an important element of responsible forest management, and an
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Don’t get me wrong. I fully support the use of more post-consumer material in packaging and products. Just not some of the BS that goes with it. And this is important because governments are stipulating post-consumer content without knowing all the facts. Here are some of the false claims being made: False Claim # 1:
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The Canadian branch of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is trying to distance itself from a promotional video that has angered its Canadian packaging customers. But the video itself, with two demonstrably false claims in it, still remains accessible to the public on FSC Canada’s website. When it launched the video last month, FSC Canada
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An open letter to Francois Dufresne, President and CEO of Forest Stewardship Council (Canada) Dear Mr. Dufresne: I recognize that FSC is in a three-way fight for market share in the forest and paper certification business, and that part of that fight is your recent launch of a new video plug for FSC aimed at
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Lettre ouverte à François Dufresne, président et chef de la direction de FSC Canada. Monsieur Dufresne, Je sais que le FSC est engagé dans une lutte à trois pour obtenir des parts de marché dans le domaine de la certification des forêts et du papier et que c’est dans le cadre de cette lutte que vous
FSC induit les Canadiens en erreur en ternissant l’image des emballages de papier Read More »
This is a story about what’s recyclable, what is sent for recycling, and the fees that stewards of those materials pay into Ontario’s Blue Box system. In what seems like a perversion of the ‘polluter pays’ principle, some of the worst performing materials pay among the lowest fees. There are two elements to this story.
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Voici une histoire sur ce qui est recyclable, ce qui est envoyé au recyclage et les frais que les gestionnaires de toutes ces matières versent au système de boîtes bleues de l’Ontario. Dans ce qui semble être une perversion du principe du pollueur-payeur, certaines des matières les moins performantes se voient imposer des frais parmi
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