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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 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 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.

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.