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The article discusses the U.S. Department of Commerce's report that exports of recovered paper in 2006 has started with shipments of over 1.3 million. metric tons. According to the report, deliveries of all grades from the U.S. to Canada has declined 11.2 percent in January 2006. However, shipments to all of the top five countries increased by 15.8 percent due to improved orders from China, Mexico, South Korea and India.

The article offers information on the contributions and legacy of Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC). Topics discussed include waste diversion option for used paper packaging, an activity based costing approach to residential recycling programs and PPEC as the first packaging association in Canada.

Mentions Canmore, Albertan Cyndi Foster's use of animal dung in her handmade papers. Colors and textures of Poop Paper; Her comments about using herbivore dung; Public reaction to the paper.

Discusses the use of waste materials from the pulp and paper industry to revegetate the Pronto Mine in northern Ontario, Canada. Research conducted by the Elliot Lake Research Field Station of Laurentian University in Ontario on the use of paper mill sludge as surface material to support plant life in the mine; Other uses of paper mill waste in Ontario; Criticisms of several environmental groups in Canada on the harmful chemical contents of paper sludge.

The article offers updates from the U.S. paper stock market as of May 2012. According to several paper stock dealers, there were indicators that domestic recycled board mills have met their inventory needs and are reducing new purchases of old corrugated containers (OCC), old newspapers (ONP) and mixed paper. One major factor affecting the paper stock market are Chinese mill buyers. Several countries with paper stock market slowdown are Mexico and Canada.

The article offers information on the significance of October 2007 to the publication "alive" in Canada. It is the time when it published its 300th issue, which was printed on a 30% post-consumer recycled paper. because of such move, it received a certification from the Forest Stewardship Council and the Rainforest Alliance.

The article reports on the plan of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to establish an eco-friendly paper and glass recycling plant, with the partnership of the private-industry recycling company. Accordingly, the planned facility will allow the city to reach its closed-loop recycling through processing waster paper into recycled paper products. Moreover, it notes how the recycling operations will be made and the role of the recycling firm to the plan.

Reports that two Ontario firms, Distican and I.G. Machine and Fibres Ltd., have combined resources to help reduce the largest component of waste clogging landfill sites. Reusing unsold, overstocked and damaged paperback books to create shingles;Ways to use shingles for road bed material.

Reports on the recycling project launched by Jasper National Park in Alberta. Results of a study characterizing waste samples in the park; Major components in the waste stream; Description of how the park dealt with cardboard and food wastes; Graph illustrating kilograms of waste generated per National Park visitor.

The article focuses on managing the plastic and paper waste collected by states in Canada as China bans recyclable waste. It discusses how British Columbia is saved from the crisis unlike other states as it already had its own plastic recycling company RecycleSmart Solutions and Merlin Plastics and how used to collect levy from companies using plastic and paper for packaging in order to manage its own recycling program.

The article explains that mandating the municipalities to collect the rubbish, which are manufactured items such as bottles, clothing and paper, in Canada a hundred years ago appears to be a mistake. Public policy should have required producers to offer customers a service for returning products for recycling. Several provinces now are experimenting on alternatives.

The article overviews several companies which manufacture Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)-certified foodservice and bags products in U.S. and Canada. It provides profiles of companies producing compostable products, and examines how their products fit to the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and sustainable packaging practices. These companies include Coca-Cola Co., Wal-Mart Canada Corp. and International Paper Co.

The article discusses the organics recycling program in Canada, which is designed to divert 70 percent of waste from disposal by 2016, from 45 percent. The said program will start on April 2, 2007 and it will involve the residents in the Region of Peel - Caledon, Brampton, and Mississauga, Ontario in setting out kitchen waste and soiled paper at the curbside for weekly collection. It has been noted that between February and March, 2007, almost 285,000 Peel households received 12-gallon green bins which were manufactured by Norseman Plastics Ltd., mainly for organic materials. Accordingly, this project is the largest simultaneous rollout of an organics recycling program in Canada to date.

The article focuses on various plastic bag legislation in the U.S. and Canada. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has exercised his veto power on a bill that aims to establish a recycling program for plastic bags in the state. Industries affected by the plastic ban in Toronto, Ontario, Canada are seeking to reopen the vote of the Toronto City Council. Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson has ruled in favor of the plastic bag ban imposed in most retail locations in San Francisco, California.

The article discusses how the Carton Council of Canada (CCC) is developing a sustainable recycling supply chain for food and beverage cartons in North America. Topics covered include the digital advertising campaign, the release of the Carton Recycling Primer for sharing expertise about carton recycling, and the high-performance green building materials.

The article reports that more than 80 percent of Canadians already have access to the recycling of common corrugated boxes and folding cartons. It discusses the benefits of the access to businesses in the country, such as putting the word "recyclable" on their corrugated or folding carton packaging without adding any qualifying statements. It also offers information on how a business can claim recyclability without qualification.

The article offers news briefs related to green living in Canada. The company 3M is making its Post-it notes from recycled paper. Members of the Earth Club at Stony Mountain School in Manitoba have made progress in improving their local ecology by planting native shade trees and starting a wildflower garden. According to BirdLife International, populations of the North American bird species have declined more than 50 per cent.

The article reports on the announcement made by grocery store chain Whole Foods Market that it will stop using plastic grocery bags at all of its 270 stores in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. It notes that the company aims to eliminate all plastic bags from its stores by April 22, 2008. According to the company, it will distribute over 50,000 reusable shopping bags to customers to celebrate the announcement. It cites that each store will begin to decrease its stocks of disposable plastic grocery bags at its checkouts.

This is an article about recycling in Canada and the demolition of Terminal One at Toronto's Pearson International airport. I bet there's even been the odd time, as you hauled your box of papers or bottles or pop cans to the curb, that you contemplated the possibility this was all a big sham--that the recycling trucks were simply going to dump it all into some landfill site along with all your regular household garbage. Well, in a sense, that's what's happening now at a major deconstruction site at the country's busiest airport, Toronto's Pearson International. We are talking about an amazing on-site recycling project that's taking place under the unsuspecting gaze of thousands of travellers every day. It's happening at the old Terminal One building, opened in 1964 as the airport of the future. Because of its proximity to active runways and crowded buildings, it was never a candidate for that favourite staple of TV news--the 10-second countdown to the imploding building.

The article offers information on the national specification standard for compostable plastics in Canada. It mentions that the said standard is on the consultation stage and it will be reviewed by the Standards Council of Canada. Meanwhile, the BNQ 9011-911: Compostable Plastic Bags—Certification Program is the current standard used in the country. Moreover, the ISO standard for composting plastics is also mentioned.

Reports on the results of a study conducted at the Horticultural Research Institute of Ontario to examine the potential use of corrugated cardboard wastes as a compostable material to grow nursery plants. Chemical analysis of a sample of waxed corrugated cardboard; Similar study launched by Waterdown Garden Supplies which was encouraged by the results of the Ontario study.