The good news is that the reported recovery rates for almost every single material category in Ontario’s Blue Box have improved over the last 13 years, some by as much as 20 percentage points. The bad news is that several categories have made very little progress and lag way behind the others, and that the […]
The good, the bad, and the ugly about Ontario’s Blue Box Read More »
When you crunch the numbers on Canada’s various provincial Blue Box systems, one fact stands out more than any other. The Blue Box is basically a Paper Box, part of a larger feeder supply network for Canadian and other paper recycling mills. Paper’s overwhelming dominance is more obvious, of course, in the many “deposit” provinces
Over 75% of what the Blue Box collects is paper, and it has the highest recovery rates Read More »
Il est parfois intéressant de faire un retour sur le passé. Voici ma contribution à un livre publié récemment sur la fabrication du papier depuis un siècle au Canada. Lightweight, Recycled, Sustainable: the Story of Canada’s Packaging Grades The last 100 years of packaging in Canada have seen the replacement of heavy wooden crates with
L\’histoire des emballages de papier et de carton au Canada Read More »
Il ne fait aucun doute que certaines marchandises sont suremballées et qu’il y aurait moyen de réduire la quantité d’emballages de papier, de verre, de métal et de plastique qui se retrouvent dans les foyers des consommateurs. Mais même si l\’on continue à tout mettre sur le dos de l’emballage, ce n’est qu’un aspect de
C’est encore la faute de l’emballage (soupir) Read More »
En voilà un beau mensonge ! Le lobby du plastique tente de nous faire croire que seulement 7 % des sacs de magasinage en plastique sont jetés à Montréal : « ZÉRO DÉCHET – OU PRESQUE », proclame-t-il fièrement. Quelle exagération ! Cette affirmation est carrément trompeuse et malhonnête. Le lobby du plastique obtient un total impressionnant de 93 % en combinant
Le lobby du plastique raconte des salades et continue à discréditer les sacs de papier Read More »
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dick Staite, a former chairman of PPEC and a long-time employee of Atlantic Packaging in Toronto. In the early 1990s, Dick’s boss, Harry Shelson, came to him and said: “I want you to join PPEC.” Dick had no idea what PPEC was. Told that
Dick Staite: former PPEC director and “interim” chair Read More »
The battle between the corrugated box and the plastic crate industries for share of the fresh produce market is getting stranger by the minute. The latest twist is the release by leading crate supplier, IFCO, of a comparative life cycle analysis (LCA) that, guess what, favours the crate. At first IFCO released only the executive
Something really fishy about plastic crate study Read More »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Kenyon (847) 364-9600, rk*****@******ox.org Cheryl Reynhout (401) 932-8126, cr*******@********ed.org Katharine Eaton (202) 463-2434, ka*************@*****pa.org IFCO REPORT USES INACCURATE DATA FOR CORRUGATED CONTAINERS ITASCA, IL (May 10, 2016) – The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) reviewed IFCO’s recently-published Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable Plastic Containers and Display- and
Something fishy about crate supplier’s recycled content assumptions Read More »
The Canadian plastics industry has quietly deleted a couple of the false claims it was making on its bags website. PPEC highlighted the claims in a blog last month. Gone is the claim that the ULS Report was completed according to ISO 14040-14043 standards and peer reviewed by North Carolina State University. Not true. Also
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L\’industrie canadienne du plastique embellit la crédibilité d\’une étude qui, selon elle, prouve que les sacs de plastique sont plus écologiques que les sacs de papier. Selon le site Web de l\’industrie, le ULS Report (2007) « a été produit conformément aux normes ISO 14040-14043, et a fait l\’objet d\’une revue par les pairs de la North
