Published on November 21, 2014 12:26 pm
Waste Diversion Ontario and Stewardship Ontario have satisfactorily resolved the dispute regarding Stewardship Ontario’s management services agreement with Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance. SO and WDO look forward to working collaboratively to increase waste diversion in Ontario. View joint statement
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Published on August 21, 2014 9:58 am
In partnership with Central Ontario municipalities, Stewardship Ontario is running an advertising campaign to encourage residents to recycle more paper products. Materials such as cardboard toilet paper rolls and boxboard packaging for items such as toothpaste or soap are often neglected as residents tend to leave these in the bathroom garbage in…
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Published on July 3, 2014 9:18 am
ONTARIO’S BLUE BOX DIVERTS NEARLY ONE MILLION TONNES OF RECYCLABLES FROM LANDFILL Toronto, Ontario – July 3, 2014 Ontarians are passionate about recycling. In 2013, Stewardship Ontario’s Blue Box program collected over 890,000 tonnes of recyclables – that’s almost as much as eight CN Towers and 62.8% of the total residential packag…
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Published on June 9, 2014 1:18 pm
As you will recall, the work undertaken to improve reporting of pressurized containers was a two–part process: Part One being steward adjustments to their 2012 reports and Part Two being Stewardship Ontario running the 2012 Annual True Up. We want you to know that we have finished Part One of this project and the steward...
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Published on June 2, 2014 10:42 am
The numbers are in! Read up on how Stewardship Ontario has helped divert nearly a million tonnes of recyclables from Ontario landfills in 2013.
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Published on April 9, 2014 12:14 pm
Stewardship Ontario (SO) is pleased that Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) has agreed to our request to submit to a formal dispute resolution process with respect to Stewardship Ontario’s Management Services Agreement with Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance (CSSA). SO has been in negotiations with CSSA over the past year to provide program …
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Published on November 22, 2013 1:36 pm
The non-profit ZooShare Biogas Co-operative Inc. is developing a 500 kilowatt biogas plant at the Toronto Zoo. The facility, projected to start construction in mid-2014, will turn the zoo’s poo and local grocery waste into electricity, heat and high-quality fertilizer.
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Published on November 11, 2013 9:58 am
Our keynote speaker at the third Stewardship Ontario Sustainability Summit was the environmental lawyer and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who addressed the responsibility of industry to reduce its environmental impact.
In this video, Mr. Kennedy praises Canada for leading the way in its commitment to sustainability.
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Published on November 1, 2013 12:14 pm
One of my favourite parts of camping is reaching into my backpack and pulling out the components to assemble a mini-kitchen. Lightweight cutlery and plates along with a stove and fuel. The problem however after numerous delicious meals, is what to do with the empty propane cylinder. To try and solve this issue, Ontario Parks partnered with Stewar…
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Published on October 29, 2013 3:00 pm
At the annual Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards, Entropex, a leading plastics recycler, received this year's Gold award for excellence in waste reduction.
Entropex is a clean technology company and market leader in plastics recycling. It has successfully developed and commercialized the RigidReclaim™ process integrating plastics sort…
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