EPR program recycling services to start this year in the Yukon
By Tori Fitzpatrick Extended Producer Responsibility program meant to shift cost of recycling to producers of those materials The Yukon
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Recyclables in Yellowknife, Northern Canada have been dumped in landfill for over a year
While Yellowknife, Northwest Territories residents have been carefully sorting their recyclables and dropping them off in the city’s large blue
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Sweden generating growing amounts of plastic waste
There’s been a big rise in how much plastic waste Sweden produces, up 40 percent in just the last five
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Only 1 % of Finnish waste sent to landfill
Some 60 percent of Finnish refuse is burnt at incinerators. New figures from Statistics Finland show that just one percent
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Mounting garbage a problem in northern Finland
During the busy winter season the seasonal population in Kittilä, Lapland quintuples and so does the trash left behind. Christmas
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Finnish company turns used batteries into fertilizer
Finnish company Tracegrow has created a method for extracting substances inside used alkaline batteries that can be repurposed and used
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Alaska’s first, electric public transit bus ready to hit Anchorage streets
Alaska’s first electric public transit bus is set to begin carrying passengers in Anchorage starting Tuesday. Among other things,
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Stockholm pitches Xmas trees in water to help fish
The city of Stockholm is throwing Christmas trees in the sea as part of a pilot project to improve the
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Real Christmas trees better for environment, says Sweden’s Farmers Union
Christmas is just two weeks away and already the holiday lights and greenery are up throughout the streets of Stockholm.
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Finland: Used tyres to clean up waters
New rules about to come into force could put an end to recycling discarded car tyres. The changes mean environmental
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