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These three differently-coloured bins are used to sort waste in Toronto. The curbside collection systems for recyclates vary across Canada: Blue box – Ontario (excluding Toronto), British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Manitoba; Wheeled Blue bin – Toronto, Calgary, Essex-Windsor, Winnipeg; Green box – used in North York, Ontario
The Halifax Regional Municipality has had Green Bin collection in urban areas since 1998. Hamilton, Ontario had originally implemented its "Green Bin" program to houses in 2006 and is the first city to recently spread the project to apartment buildings and complexes to reduce waste by 35% to ease the garbage in Hamilton's only operational landfill.
The two-bin system consists of a recycling bin (usually 240 litre) for co-mingled recyclables, and a general waste bin which is often smaller (e.g. 140 litre, 120 litre or 80 litre). The three-bin system consists of the above two bins plus a green waste bin (usually 240 litre). Not all councils have a green waste bin collection service.
Sorted recycling bins in Orchard Road, Singapore Recycling bin of plastic bottles in Tel Aviv, Israel. A recycling bin (or recycle bin) is a container used to hold recyclables before they are taken to recycling centers. Recycling bins exist in various sizes for use inside and outside of homes, offices, and large public
Named for a book of poetry by e.e. cummings, Is Five organized Canada's first multi-material curbside pickup of recyclable material for 80,000 households of The Beaches neighbourhood of east Toronto. In 1977, Jack McGinnis and Derek Stephenson created a private consulting company, Resource Integration Systems (RIS) to advise governments in the ...
Green waste does not include things such as dried leaves, pine straw, or hay. Such materials are rich in carbon and considered "brown wastes," while green wastes contain high concentrations of nitrogen. Green waste can be used to increase the efficiency of many composting operations and can be added to soil to sustain local nutrient cycling.
Toronto Solid Waste Management Services is the municipal service that handles the transfer and disposal of garbage as well as the processing and sale of recyclable materials collected through the blue box program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
BSI PAS 101 Recovered container glass: Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection; BSI PAS 102 Specification for processed glass for selected secondary end markets; BSI PAS 103 Collected waste plastics packaging: Specification for quality and guidance for good practice in collection and preparation for recycling