Recycling Our Electronics
Monday, February 7th, 2011We here at Green Company Canada get many emails asking about locations for recycling used electronics, and which items can be recycled. This seems to be both easy and hard – and it all depends on where you live. Large cities have many options for people looking to drop off electronic items for recycling and/or [...]
UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Cigdem Eskicioglu who is a professor of engineering at UBC Okanagan is aiming to turn various sources of organic waste into methane for renewable energy and as a highly usable organic fertilizer. With so many possible places to glean waste organic matter and to keep it from ending up unused and in local landfills, this [...]
Frito Lay Canada Unveils 100% Compostable Chip Bag
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Often the source of litter near any convenience store, the ubiquitous chip bag has now gone 100% compostable. Now you can eat snacks that are only bad for your diet and not the environment! Frito Lay Canada with their SunChips brand snack chips unveiled new packaging for the product that may just change the way [...]
Attempt at Green Buildings Failing in Ottawa and Surrounding Provinces
Monday, January 11th, 2010Canada’s Green Building Report Card projects major gaps and flaws in the codes of federal and provincial buildings. Poor grades were issued by the Environmental Defense Center to many of Canada’s governments for the low quality of their policies to promote green buildings. The evaluations of the policies, programs and codes that proved influential in [...]
Biogas – Organic Material to Power Generation
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Two new anaerobic digestion plants via RCI Technologies, Inc are being retained as a result of of Hydro-Québec’s tender for their acquisition of biomass cogeneration. These new anaerobic digestion plants are to be situated in the borough of Anjou near Montreal and Longueuil Quebec. The total investment output is some $60 million. RCI Technologies is [...]
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