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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.

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.