Waste Management

recycling

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Stepping up your building’s recycling

For maintenance managers, recycling can often be part of the mandate to improve efficiency and lower your building’s carbon footprint. As sustainability becomes even more
Waste Reduction Week tied to bigger picture

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Waste Reduction Week tied to bigger picture

Circular Economy Month will continue to emphasize the three Rs of reduce, reuse and recycle, while targeting the further goals of waste elimination, resource protection and environmental restoration.
waste

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Disposing of waste doesn’t eliminate infection threat

Viruses can survive and remain infectious by binding with plastics in water sources.
subpar waste diversion results trail Ontario target

Canadian Property Management

Subpar waste diversion trails Ontario target

About 85 per cent of waste from Ontario's businesses, public institutions, residential buildings with six or more units and construction/demolition sites ends up in landfill, including a vast amount of recyclable material.
Metro Jet Wash

CondoBusiness

Moving ahead at MJW

It's time to look forward at the MJW Team (divisions of Metro Jet Wash Corporation). After one of the most disruptive years on record, the waste equipment cleaning specialist is eager to enter 2022 with fresh insights and renewed optimism.
sustainability

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Sustainability tips for commercial facilities

Infection control measures have understandably been the priority for facility managers, but sustainability should not fall by the wayside.
BOMA Canada to launch Circular Economy Guide for Real Estate

Canadian Property Management

CRE sussed for circular economy applications

BOMA members and other interested parties are asked to complete a short online survey ahead of the upcoming launch of the new Circular Economy Guide for Commercial Real Estate.
Project focuses on reducing and recapturing medical plastic waste

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Health care providers contemplate plastic waste

Project partners and advisors will explore options to reduce, reuse and recycle personal protective equipment and medical single-use plastic items before disposal.
waste management

Canadian Apartment Magazine

New merger provides one-stop shop for waste management  

Metro Compactor Service and Wilkinson Chutes Canada have merged to create a one-stop shop for residential waste management services. 
Manitoba aims to elevate waste diversion rates

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Manitoba aims to elevate waste diversion rates

A provincial review and public consultation has been launched to seek input on current industry-funded stewardship programs and potential new recycling and recovery technologies.
plastic waste glut attributed to China's ban on imports

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Plastic waste glut could fuel innovation

A new report projects the market for polymer recycling could reach USD $162 billion by 2030, but investment will be required to improve sorting and reduce contamination.
garbage areas

CondoBusiness

Keeping garbage areas in condos healthy and safe

Cleaning garbage rooms and waste chutes is a maintenance concern for all condo corporations, but the current pandemic has made this to-do item even more relevant.
waste management

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Technology gets smart about waste management

Waste equipment and services that can process and organize vast amounts of data help inform sustainable practices throughout the facility.
waste

REMI Network

Hamilton deploys waste bins for safe needle disposal

Hamilton is placing disposal containers for sharps waste in select locations around the city to help reduce the number of improperly discarded needles.
waste management

REMI Network

Built Green Canada promotes waste management

Waste Reduction Week in Canada is a national year-round program that kicks-off in October and focuses on the circular economy, resource efficiency, and waste reduction.

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

B.C. organization calls on public to recycle safe

Recycle BC is warning residents in British Columbia to pay attention to the hazardous materials that are being placed in the province’s residential packaging and paper

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Partnership urges Canadians to rethink plastics

10,000 Changes has been made possible through funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada.