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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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Fewer newspapers but more packaging in Ontario households

Blue Box, Household Waste Generation, Paper and Plastics Packaging, Paper Packaging / By John Mullinder

While the collective weight of Blue Box materials generated by Ontario households has not changed much over the last 15 years, the type of material that ends up there certainly has. Far fewer newspapers, for starters. Almost 136,000 tonnes fewer, according to a PPEC comparison of Stewardship Ontario generation data between 2003 and 2017. Magazines

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Fighting media ignorance (battle # 5,041)

Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / By John Mullinder

Yes, we know that packaging is evil and that it should be legislated out of existence. But sometimes those ignorant throw-away lines about packaging waste really do rankle and must be corrected. Case in point: a recent article by Eric Reguly in the Globe and Mail newspaper. In his beef with Amazon Prime’s home-delivery service,

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Final Reminder – The future of retail and e-commerce

Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging / By John Mullinder

Just a quick reminder that we are days away from our breakfast seminar on the future of retail and e-commerce. If you are interested, you need to register here fast. The speaker will be Diane Brisebois, President and CEO of the Retail Council of Canada. The council represents more than 44,000 retail establishments across Canada

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The future of retail and e-commerce

Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging / By John Mullinder

The Canadian retail industry is undergoing massive change, shedding bricks and mortar for the new exciting world of e-commerce. In the driver’s seat are consumers. Click and point with the mouse. It’s so easy. In today’s world, convenience is king. But what’s the impact on the retail trade? What happens to those huge store fronts,

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Packaging stewards should be rewarded for using recycled content

1 Comment / Blue Box, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

Recycled content is central to the “Circular Economy” approach that Ontario and some other provinces say they want to adopt. It keeps raw materials flowing through the economy longer, reduces the pressure to extract more virgin materials from the earth, and delays their eventual disposal as waste. It’s something which governments say they want to

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Ontario Blue Box recovery rate slips, but paper steady

Blue Box, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

The reported recovery rate of Ontario’s residential Blue Box system has fallen to its lowest level since 2005. The draft recovery rates, to be finalised by Stewardship Ontario in December, show a 2016 recovery rate of 62.4%, down 2% on the previous year. This will make the recent “request” by Ontario’s minister of environment and

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Recycled content must be recognised in setting circular economy targets

2 Comments / Blue Box, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) is in the process of considering what it calls specific material “management” targets for Ontario Blue Box recyclables such as paper, plastic, glass, steel and aluminum. It has already stated that it wants to see a collective 75% Blue Box diversion rate, up from the current

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Circular Economy or spinning our wheels?

Paper Packaging, Waste Diversion, Waste Strategy / By John Mullinder

The Circular Economy (CE to some) has become something of a buzzword of late, just like sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) before it. Good intentions, but a lot of public relations too. Perhaps we’re being too cynical, but the issue is a bit like climate change. We know it’s coming (most of us) or

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China doesn’t want the world’s garbage any more

2 Comments / Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling / By John Mullinder

And who can blame them? For years, the world has been shipping all sorts of waste to China for it to be sorted, made into new products, and shipped back to us. Low labour rates and lax environmental enforcement have benefitted all parties to this commercial deal (even perhaps the Chinese workers, a job being

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