November 2017 | Waste Wise Products

November 2017

Five Unexpected Sources Of Household Plastic Pollution

Five Unexpected Sources Of Household Plastic Pollution

Each year humans produce around 300 Million tons of plastic, compared to 1.5 Million tons in 1950.

4 Benefits of a Circular Economy

4 Benefits of a Circular Economy

Most of us can feel that we are driving down a dead end road. The linear economic model, our current vehicle, will inevitably fly over the edge beyond the point of no return.

Four Ways You Didn’t Know That Plastics Harm The Environment

Four Ways You Didn’t Know That Plastics Harm The Environment

We've all seen the photo of a dead turtle with plastic six-pack beer package around its neck, or a decomposing seabird full of plastic debris in its stomach. These are the obvious scenes which evoke the most human emotion towards the fight against plastic pollution.

How To Get Grant Funding For A New Recycling Initiative

How To Get Grant Funding For A New Recycling Initiative

Ready for the next great recycling leap forward? Competitive grant funding opportunities for recycling initiatives, as well as initiatives that involve environmental stewardship and critical environmental needs, are available from a number of sources.California has an active grant and low-interest loan program through CalRecycle, the Department of Resource Recycling and Recovery.

4 Ways You Can Help Create a Circular Economy

4 Ways You Can Help Create a Circular Economy

Economical systems are administered by governments and energized by industry, but we drive them. Therefore, we hold the key to change.

How To Increase Recycling On Campuses

How To Increase Recycling On Campuses

Like nations with the Paris Climate Accord, campuses across the United States have also joined into an agreement to act on climate change. Hundreds of campuses have signed an agreement called the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge.

How communities can tackle plastic pollution

How communities can tackle plastic pollution

Plastic pollution is a tremendous problem facing our planet. A 2016 World Economic Forum study determined that by 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the world's oceans.

How Creative Company Culture Can Follow Increasing Global Waste Restrictions

How Creative Company Culture Can Follow Increasing Global Waste Restrictions

China notified the World Trade Organization that starting December 31, 2017, they would no longer allow the import of several types of unsorted paper waste, textile scraps, many types of post-consumer plastics, and metal slag and dross that contained vanadium. $6.

Can old tires be fully recyclable?

Can old tires be fully recyclable?

Could old, worn-out tires be recycled into useful products? That claim is being made by Green Distillation Technologies, a company in Australia. The company has developed a significant advance for recycling the part of a motor vehicle that is regularly thrown away after it is worn out.

3 Ways To Educate The Importance Of Recycling

3 Ways To Educate The Importance Of Recycling

Canada’s got a reputation for being a nation of nature-lovers that treasure the environment, which is no real surprise; we’ve got a lot of natural environment to love! So it’s also not all that unexpected that, as a country, we’ve also taken steps in our urban centres to try and reduce the amount of unrecoverable garbage that we put into landfills, and recycle what we can. In theory, most people like the idea of recycling.