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New StatsCan Data Shows Paper Represents Majority of Diverted Materials

Statistics Canada released the results of its biennial Waste Management Survey1, containing waste diversion data for 2022. PPEC’s latest blog breaks down the stats and discusses the importance of recycling data. The new data shows that Canadian households and businesses diverted 9,898,882 tonnes of waste in 2022, and of the total amount diverted, 3,571,384 tonnes […]

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Statistics Canada’s New Waste Management Survey Results: Paper Represents 35% of Diversion

Circular Economy, Industry News, Waste Diversion / Rachel Kagan

On November 15, 2022, Statistics Canada released the results of its biennial Waste Management Survey, containing waste diversion data for 2020, broken down by material type and diversion source (residential and non-residential). The new data shows that Canadian households and businesses diverted 9,903,027 tonnes of waste in 2020, and of the total amount diverted, 3,502,683 tonnes were

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The Latest Ontario Blue Box Recycling Data for Paper-based Packaging

Blue Box, Circular Economy, Corrugated Boxes, Paper Packaging, Paper Recycling, Recycling, Waste Diversion / Rachel Kagan

Paper-based packaging continues to be the largest captured material in Ontario\’s household Blue Box program, based on new data released by the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA). Each year, municipalities, recycling associations, and First Nation communities in Ontario report on their residential waste diversion programs to RPRA, through the annual Datacall. The most recent

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Ontario Blue Box program falls below 60% recycling target

Blue Box, Targets, Waste Diversion, Waste Strategy / John Mullinder

Stewardship Ontario’s new 2020 Annual Report provides the most recent data on the performance of the Ontario Blue Box program. Over 729,000 tonnes of packaging and printed paper were recycled in 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, resulting in a 57.3% recycling rate, down from 60.2% in 2018. The Ontario government’s

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Statistics Canada’s New Waste Management Survey Results: Paper Represents 36% of Diversion

1 Comment / Corrugated Boxes, Household Waste Generation, Paper Packaging, Waste Diversion / John Mullinder

Statistics Canada released the results of its biennial Waste Management Industry Survey: Business and Government Sector, containing waste diversion data for 2018. The new data shows that Canadian households and businesses diverted 9,817,607 tonnes of waste in 2018, up 5.8% from 2016. Of the total amount diverted, 3,519,689 tonnes were paper fibres (which includes newsprint,

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Ontario Blue Box will struggle to make 60% diversion, and none of the ministry’s proposed new targets will be reached

Blue Box, Recycling, Targets, Waste Diversion / John Mullinder

Green visions, aspirational goals, and political grandstanding are all very well in their place. But at some point, we have to be realistic. The fact of the matter is that the overall waste diversion rate of Ontario’s Blue Box is unlikely to improve much over the next ten years, and the new diversion targets proposed

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Climate change demands that our focus should be on improving paper and organics recovery, not fiddling around with plastic straws

Landfill Bans, Paper Recycling, Waste Diversion / John Mullinder

Yes, plastic litter (any litter for that matter) and marine pollution is terrible, and we need to have a long hard look at our consumption habits and to reduce our use of fossil fuels. But when we are warned by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we have only 12 years for

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British Columbians and Nova Scotians are Canada’s best recyclers

Waste Diversion, Waste Strategy / John Mullinder

Nova Scotia might have the country’s highest diversion rate as a province (44%) but British Columbians recycle more as individuals. An analysis of the latest data from Statistics Canada shows that the average British Columbian diverted 377 kilograms of waste in 2016. That’s 60 kilograms more than the average Nova Scotian and twice as much

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Canada’s waste diversion rate slowly inches higher

Waste Diversion, Waste Strategy / John Mullinder

A diversion rate of 27% might not sound too impressive but it’s better than the 24% of a few years back. According to the latest Statistics Canada data, we dumped almost a million tonnes less in 2016 than we did in 2008 while at the same time diverting almost a million tonnes more from landfill.

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Ontario Blue Box recovery rate slips again, but paper’s steady

Blue Box, Circular Economy, Waste Diversion / John Mullinder

The recovery rate of Ontario’s residential Blue Box system has slipped again, to its lowest level since 2005. According to Stewardship Ontario, the 2017 recovery rate was 61.3 per cent, down almost two per cent on the previous year. The provincial target is 60 per cent. Almost three-quarters of what’s currently being recovered is paper

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