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The Beer Store expands recycling mandate in Ontario

Source: Daily News | 2013-02-19
Ontario has launched a new recycling initiative designed to capitalize on the success of Canada’s most popular deposit-return system: The Beer Store. Only, there’s no beer for sale here.

'Sludge' activist Maureen Reilly dead at 58

Source: Daily News | 2012-12-17
It’s with great sadness that we report the untimely passing of Maureen Reilly who died suddenly in Toronto on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at age 58 years.

Shell makes recycling fee errors in BC after switching milk suppliers

Source: Daily News | 2012-10-29
Shell Canada stores across British Columbia (B.C.) have been charging recycling fees on milk containers, but Encorp Pacific, the company that deals with bottle returns and recycling in B.C., confirms milk containers do not have fees attached in...

End of the line for Coke's glass deposit bottle

Source: Daily News | 2012-10-22
The first week of October marked the end of an era for Coca Cola as the company rolled its last deposit-return bottle off an assembly line at the U.S.-based Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Winona, Minnesota.  

How We Got Coked Up on Recycling

Source: Print Archives | 2012-08-01
In May 2012, David McRobert published My Municipal Recycling Program Made Me Fat and Sick: How well-intentioned environmentalists teamed up with the soft drink industry to promote obesity and injure workers (CreateSpace — An Amazon.com...

AS YOU SOW: $11B lost to landfill annually

Source: Daily News | 2012-07-30
A new report zeroes in on U.S. companies missing out on more than $11 billion each year as they fail to take post-consumer responsibility for packaging that could be recycled.

Product stewardship expansion draws heat in BC

Source: Daily News | 2012-07-20
July 1, 2012 had appeared to be “E-Day” for many small British Columbia businesses caught up in combat over environmental regulations. What were previously just residential environmental regulations, expanded overnight to include...

Earth, charities benefit from new cigarette recycling

Source: Daily News | 2012-06-25
Cigarette butts are often discarded without thought, but thanks to a unique program that tiny plastic filter could have a new lease on inanimate life as a plastic pallet in a factory.

Not Enough Soft Drink Containers Going to Landfill: Report

Source: Print Archives | 2012-06-01
According to the Ontario-based Institute for Beverage Container Landfilling (IBCL), not enough used containers for soft drinks and other beverages are making their way into landfill, despite years of concerted effort by industry stakeholders to...

Refundable containers in Quebec: $20 million lost

Source: Daily News | 2012-04-02
According to Boissons Gazeuses Environment (BGE), every year in Quebec, more than 400 million refundable bottles and cans are not put back into the province’s recycling system, despite the fact that Quebec has a deposit-refund system for...

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