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Canada’s ‘middle performers’ in waste management: Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario

Organics, Paper Packaging, Waste Strategy / By John Mullinder

Three provinces sit in the middle of Canada’s waste disposal charts. But because two of them (Quebec and Ontario) together contain 60% of Canada’s population, they basically determine the country’s overall waste management performance. According to the latest Statistics Canada data, Quebecers, New Brunswickers and Ontarians ranked third, fourth and fifth-largest dumpers of waste of […]

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Paper recycling and organics collection represent almost 70% of Canada’s waste diversion efforts

Organics, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

Paper recycling continues to dominate Canada’s waste diversion efforts, representing almost 40% of total material diversion in 2014, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. Organics followed at 30 per cent. The next largest categories, on a weight basis, were metals and construction, renovation, and demolition materials. The biggest change in tonnage terms since

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Paper recycling represents 40% of Canada’s waste diversion

Organics, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

A recent Statistics Canada report on household e-waste reveals some interesting diversion data on other materials. Paper, for example, represented 40% of what was diverted in Canada from both residential and non-residential sources in 2012. Paper recycling has increased by about 8% since 2002. The diversion of organics has really jumped, however, and now represents

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