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L’économie circulaire, une roue qui tourne à vide?

L’économie circulaire est à la mode ces temps-ci, comme l’ont été avant elle le développement durable et la responsabilité sociale des entreprises. Toutes ces bonnes intentions s’inscrivent cependant dans des démarches de relations publiques. Nous ne voulons pas paraître trop cyniques, mais cette question nous rappelle celle des changements climatiques. Nous savons (presque tous) que […]

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Canadians are dumping more, and less, at the same time!

Recyclable, Uncategorized / John Mullinder

Call us multi-taskers. According to the latest waste disposal data from Statistics Canada, Canadians dumped 25.1 million tonnes of waste in 2014, a million tonnes more than we did 12 years ago. So on that score, Canada’s waste pile is growing. Not good news. But because there are 13% more of us now than there

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The good, the bad, and the ugly about Ontario’s Blue Box

2 Comments / Blue Box, Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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Over 75% of what the Blue Box collects is paper, and it has the highest recovery rates

Blue Box, Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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L\’histoire des emballages de papier et de carton au Canada

Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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C’est encore la faute de l’emballage (soupir)

Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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Le lobby du plastique raconte des salades et continue à discréditer les sacs de papier

Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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Dick Staite: former PPEC director and “interim” chair

1 Comment / Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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Something really fishy about plastic crate study

Uncategorized / John Mullinder

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

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Something fishy about crate supplier’s recycled content assumptions

Uncategorized / John Mullinder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Kenyon (847) 364-9600, rkenyon@fibrebox.org Cheryl Reynhout (401) 932-8126, creynhout@corrugated.org Katharine Eaton (202) 463-2434, katharine_eaton@afandpa.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

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