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English: :Recycling rates of paper and cardboard Recycling is defined as reuse of material in a production process that diverts it from the waste stream, except for recycling within industrial plants and the reuse of material as fuel. "Recycling rates" are the ratios of the quantity collected for recycling to the apparent consumption.
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]
Canada has an extremely high rate of plastic waste of 3 million tonnes per year. [16] Out of all the material that Canadians dispose of in the recycling bin, 12% is exported to other countries, such as Malaysia, where it is processed and damages the environment and the health of the population. [ 17 ]
Studies on paper and cardboard production estimate the emissions of recycling paper to be 0.2 to 1.5 kg CO₂-equivalent/kg material. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] This is about 70% of the CO₂ emissions connected with production of virgin material.
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]
Rates were meant to be reduced to 14 and 13% on July 1, 2014 and July 1, 2015 respectively. However, the government has stated that the province cannot afford reductions. [9] Nunavut: GST: 0: 5 Ontario: HST: 8: 13 Prince Edward Island: HST: 10: 15 [10] The HST was increased one point to 15% on October 1, 2016. [1] Quebec: GST + QST: 9.975 [11 ...
Most of the clay is removed from the recycled pulp as sludge, which must be disposed of. If the coated paper is 20% by weight clay, then each ton of glossy paper produces more than 200 kg of sludge and less than 800 kg of fibre. [18] The price of recycled paper has varied greatly over the last 30 or so years.
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 ...