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Recycling Our Electronics

GreenCompany — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:11:12 +0000

We 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 [...]

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UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy

GreenCompany — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:12:17 +0000

Cigdem 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 [...]

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Frito Lay Canada Unveils 100% Compostable Chip Bag

GreenCompany — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:08:44 +0000

Often 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 [...]

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Attempt at Green Buildings Failing in Ottawa and Surrounding Provinces

Green Guest — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:44:27 +0000

Canada’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 [...]

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Biogas – Organic Material to Power Generation

GreenCompany — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:10:17 +0000

Two 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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Make This Christmas Season A Green Christmas

GreenCompany — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:27:10 +0000

The Christmas holiday season can be one of the worst times of year for the environment but you can do something about that this Christmas. With a bit of work you can have green toys for your children while ensuring your holiday lighting and Christmas tree displays are more environmentally friendly. All you green parents [...]

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Renew Phone By Motorola

GreenCompany — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:32 +0000

The Green Friendly motif in business is taking hold, never more than in Canada. Motorola has announced a mobile phone constructed of at least one quarter post-consumer plastics. The Fido contract customer has a welcome green-friendly token in its new “Renew” model cellphone. The housing is made from post-consumer recycled plastic. But the product is [...]

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Another Canadian Company Goes Carbon Neutral

GreenCompany — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:22:00 +0000

M&R Environmental of Burnaby British Columbia is the latest Canadian company to work hard on their commitment to the environment by becoming a carbon neutral business. M&R Environmental has set themselves apart by becoming Canada’s first large collector and in turn processor of used oil, used oil products like oil filters and containers and even [...]

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Canadian Businesses Work Together To Build Green Economy

GreenCompany — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:47:40 +0000

A new green working group consisting of over 25 senior executives dubbed the Green Procurement Leadership Council, will work together to stimulate and nuture the emerging green economy. This group that contains some of Canada’s largest companies like the BMO Financial Group, TD Bank Financial Group, and Dupont Canada, controls over $45 billion in combined [...]

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Windshield Replacement and Recycling

GreenCompany — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:54:53 +0000

UniglassPlus is a Canadian company that is becoming known for being both socially and environmentally responsible. During the months of April and May UniglassPlus has created a new initiative that will see all the waste windshields being replaced be recycled instead of heading to the local landfill. April and May are the busiest months of [...]

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