Recycling
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ramp up your facility’s recycling program
Sustainability and ESG goals remain important to companies and consumers, so increasing your efforts and decreasing your carbon footprint are good for business. Does your
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Stepping up your building’s recycling
For maintenance managers, recycling can often be part of the mandate to improve efficiency and lower your building’s carbon footprint. As sustainability becomes even more
Construction Business
Burnaby adopts new construction waste bylaw
Burnaby is moving towards its climate action commitments with the adoption of its new Construction & Demolition Waste Diversion Bylaw.
Canadian Property Management
Garbage chute decommissioning stalls in Toronto
A new report to Toronto City Council reveals that just 24 permits to allow the sealing of garbage chutes have been issued to multi-residential landlords over the past 12 years.
Canadian Property Management
Subpar waste diversion trails Ontario target
About 85 per cent of waste from Ontario's businesses, public institutions, residential buildings with six or more units and construction/demolition sites ends up in landfill, including a vast amount of recyclable material.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Sustainability tips for commercial facilities
Infection control measures have understandably been the priority for facility managers, but sustainability should not fall by the wayside.
CondoBusiness
Multi-res tackles zero waste during COVID
A growing number of multi-res high rises across Toronto have continued to reduce waste during the pandemic.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Plastic waste glut could fuel innovation
A new report projects the market for polymer recycling could reach USD $162 billion by 2030, but investment will be required to improve sorting and reduce contamination.
REMI Network
Zero Waste High-Rise project’s new online format
The Toronto Environmental Alliance launched an online step-by-step format for its Zero Waste High-Rise project to help buildings reduce waste.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Alberta’s recycling program expanding to accept additional electronics
Up to 24,600 tonnes of electronics products not previously accepted in Alberta's program could be recycled under the two-year $43 million pilot project.
CondoBusiness
Invitation to join Zero Waste High Rise project
Toronto Environmental Alliance is currently accepting applications for condos to join its Zero Waste High Rise Project in the spring and summer of 2020.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Quebec boosts budget for solid waste reduction
Five newly announced initiatives are promised $92.7 million, aimed at improving recycling, reducing the volume of waste sent to landfill and curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Status quo rejected for Saskatchewan land fill
Saskatchewan currently ranks second among Canadian provinces for per capita disposal, equating to 842 kilograms of waste per resident every year, but the provincial government is aiming for a 30 per cent reduction from 2014 levels by 2030.
REMI Network
Canadian universities rank high for sustainability
Canadian universities are celebrating their recent standings in the 2019 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, which measure campus sustainability.
REMI Network
Assitive tools released ahead of foam container ban
The City of Vancouver has launched toolkits to help businesses find recyclable and compostable alternatives to foam containers
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario to improve Blue Box Program
The Ontario government is taking steps to improve recycling and address the serious problem of plastic pollution and litter across the province.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
B.C. organization calls on public to recycle safe
Recycle BC is warning residents in British Columbia to pay attention to the hazardous materials that are being placed in the province’s residential packaging and paper
