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Looks into the effort of British Columbia businesses to recycle waste materials. Factors influencing the motivation to recycle; Success of the recycling effort led by Paul McLaughlin of Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel; Importance of staff education in the success of a recycling program in the workplace; Recycling opportunities in the retail food market.

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 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.

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 offers information on the recycling of waste in Canada. It mentions the impacts of recycling on environment and the views of Dianne Saxe, Ontario's environmental commissioner. It also mentions the information on the Waste Free Ontario Act in Ontario along with the ban on foreign garbage by China.

The article presents milestones in waste management in Canada. In 1993, the Alberta oil industry launched a program for collecting used oil for recycling. In 1994, paint producers were mandated by law to get back old paint for recycling in British Columbia. In 1995, Manitoba created the Multi-Material Stewardship Board to collect fees from the beverage industry in order to subsidize municipal recycling programs.

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.

Reports on organic waste recycling programs in effect at several Canadian hotels. Machines extract 70 percent of moisture; Mulch up what's left; Have reduced daily flow to the dump by nearly half.

The article reports on the waste management at textile industry in Canada. It highlights the opportunities that the circular economic strategy provided to its stakeholder to stop the lifecycle loop of the garment. Also mentioned is the significant participation of stakeholders involved in the aspect of an item's lifecycle.

Gives data on a study of Canadian households that recycle. Data from `Households and the Environment 1994,' a study by Statistics Canada of 38,000 households conducted in May 1994; Steadily growing numbers of Canadians recycling household materials, composting and conserving energy and water; Comparison between 1991 and 1994.

The article compares the refuse disposal system being used in Toronto, Canada, to the system being applied in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In Siem Reap, unrecycled waste is thrown in the river, buried, littered or burned. This is not done in Toronto but the city's waste-related problems has let a different set of unsustainable processes. In Siem Reap, there are few recyclables in the waste stream because they are usually sold. In Toronto, its blue box and gray bin programs have been successful, but is still much room for improvement.

Nobody likes schlepping all those blue bins full of used margarine tubs and juice jugs to the curb every week. But at least the hassle is made bearable by the feeling that we're doing our bit to help Mother Earth. The only trouble is that years after recycling programs were rolled out in Canada, their benefits remain debatable. In March, a group of leading environmentalists from Sweden turned decades-old orthodoxy on its head, announcing that all the painstaking rinsing and sorting of recyclables we responsible citizens have done for so long has turned out to be, well, a waste--and that we'd be better off both environmentally and economically if we incinerated it all. Even when it is profitable, the applications for reconstituted products are still pretty narrow. "How many park benches and fence posts do we need?" asks Joseph Gho, chief executive officer of EPI Environmental Products Inc. Gho's company is making an effort to create an additive that makes plastic entirely biodegradable. One of Gho's British licensees, Symphony Plastic Technologies, has convinced giant British retailers like Tesco and Safeway to carry EPI-treated garbage bags, while more major European supermarkets have started using the additive in their grocery sacks. EPI has won support from composting groups worldwide. Next, Gho is hoping he can win the approval of Canadian and U.S. investors, with a share offering in the near future.

The article discusses the common sense measures being followed by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in Canada which will lead to zero waste in the future. These include: the prohibition of the disposal of recyclable materials; extended producer responsibility programs; user-pay garbage collection systems; the creation of community partnerships; and the removal of compostable material from the waste stream.