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The blue box recycling system (BBRS) was initially a waste management system used by Canadian municipalities to collect source separated household waste materials for the purpose of recycling. The first full-scale community wide BBRS was implemented in 1983 by the waste management contractor Ontario Total Recycling Systems Ltd. (a subsidiary of ...
The Stanolind Recycling Plant was in operation as early 1947. [32] Another early recycling mill was Waste Techniques, built in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania in 1972. [citation needed] Waste Techniques was sold to Frank Keel in 1978, and resold to BFI in 1981. Woodbury, New Jersey, was the first city in the United States to mandate recycling. [33]
Recycle BC (previously known as Multi-Material B.C.) is a not-for-profit organization which manages residential packaging and paper recycling in British Columbia. [2] The not-for-profit was created in 2014, after a 2011 law by the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, transferring the cost of recycling from residents to producers. [3]
Edmonton started their curbside recycling program in 1988. [13] In 2021, Edmonton transitioned from a bag to cart system for garbage and food waste collection. [14] On September 10, 2020, the Edmonton city council approved a 25-year waste strategy to reduce the landfill waste by 90%.
At current disposal rates it is estimated that the landfill will be full by 2045. The CRD’s draft November 2020, Solid Waste Management Plan calls for the expansion of the Hartland landfill and the removal of 73 acres of trees in order to allow for the continual dumping of waste by expanding the existing life of the landfill to 2100.
GFL Environmental waste bin. GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.Founded in 2007, GFL operates in all provinces in Canada and much of the United States, and currently employs more than 20,000 people. [2]
Piscataway (/ p ɪ ˈ s k æ t ə w eɪ / pih-SKAT-ə-way) is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [17] It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area , in the Raritan Valley .
The Cache Creek landfill received 500,000 tonnes of waste from Metro Vancouver municipalities in 2007, declining to 130,000 tonnes in 2016. Metro Vancouver stopped sending waste to the landfill in 2016 after the expiry of their contingency disposal contract with Cache Creek.