Carton Council Canada Blog
A bit of organization and a clear message can greatly boost recycling in schools, a recent pilot project suggests
It wouldn’t necessarily take a lot to considerably increase the recycling of beverage and food containers, including cartons, in schools. Every year, elementary and high school students in Canada consume tens of millions of individual milk cartons and drink boxes, as...
It’s Back to (Carton) School Time!
It’s that time of year again – the air is a little bit cooler, the leaves are just starting to change, and kids across the country have headed back to the classroom. And while math and history and science make up much of the classroom discussion, I am particularly...
Ontario’s Transition to a Full Producer Responsibility Blue Box Program
On August 15, I attended an event convened by Environment, Conservation and Parks Minister Jeff Yurek and his colleagues to announce the next steps related to the transition of Ontario’s Blue Box Program to full producer responsibility, from the current model under...
My Great Saskatchewan Recycling Adventure
A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate as a judge in The Great Carton Search, a Carton Council of Canada-sponsored SARCAN initiative to encourage schools in Saskatchewan to share stories about the success of their school’s beverage container recycling program,...
Artificial Intelligence offers additional opportunity to sort cartons positively
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to visit the Sani-Eco Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Granby, Quebec, to see Machinex’s SamurAI sorting robot in action. The first of its kind to be installed in a Canadian facility, it is programmed to pick HDPE and cartons....
We need more “big picture” thinking
Last fall I reflected on two reports I found exciting and provocative. They both look to the future and the potential effects of resource consumption on business and consumers. In fact, on the world. In October 2018, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...