Waste & Recycling

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (890+ words) Green commercial design lowers your company's carbon footprint, which in turn can have many benefits for your work environment and employees. Some key factors that influence commercial designs and reduce carbon footprint include the use of renewable construction materials, water…...

46+ min ago   (418+ words) France is preparing for a wave of hard-to-recycle solar panel waste, and it is looking for a homegrown solution, according to pv magazine. The move has highlighted the need for governments and industries to establish plans for end-of-life solar panels…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (49+ words) CTV News Judge says Ecco Landfill operator skirted rules as fire burns A Calgary judge says the owner of a landfill where a fire has been burning for more than a week disregarded rules on how to handle waste....

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (987+ words) A Calgary recycling company that operates a site where a fire has been burning for more than a week was recently convicted of breaching bylaws and, on Friday, was found to have a “continuous disregard” for local laws, according to…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (1453+ words) The company was ordered to remove any unauthorized waste, but a judge refused a request from the city to impose daily penalties and to lock ECCO out of its premises As a landfill fire continues to smoulder in southeast Calgary,…...

10+ hour, 15+ min ago   (320+ words) The method could help create plastic products with the best of both worlds by combining durability with an eco-friendly life cycle image: A 3D-printed pufferfish made of pDCPD undergoes deconstruction in a solution containing an eco-friendly solvent and ruthenium-based catalyst....

10+ hour, 27+ min ago   (677+ words) Millions of Brits could be sitting on £1000s worth of unused phones, tablets and other devices without even realising. Recent research commissioned by Virgin Media O2 has revealed that around 460 million unused digital devices are gathering dust in homes and businesses across…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago   (478+ words) Industry, the recycling sector, environmental groups and the Australian Greens are today uniting in calls for a mandatory federal extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme, ahead of a meeting of federal, state and territory environment ministers this Friday. The Labor Government…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago   (1054+ words) Fullerton City Council is being asked on September 15, 2026, to provide direction on negotiations for the city’s next solid-waste services contract, with three companies remaining under consideration: the city’s current provider, Republic Services, along with CR&R Environmental Services and Valley…...

13+ hour, 2+ min ago   (261+ words) A defective solar cell in a solar module may not fail where it is made. It is metallised with silver, coated, co-fired, laminated into a module and shipped — quietly accumulating cost at every step — before the flaw finally surfaces as…...