A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most "recyclable" objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...

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Despite some modest progress over the past two decades, Canada's waste diversion efforts remain wanting: according to the ...

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“Here we have a man whose job it is to gather the day’s refuse in the capital,” wrote Charles Baudelaire, invoking the ragpicker, a new type on the streets of his native nineteenth-century Paris.

The Grounds Department has a significant role in solid waste management on campus. The department routinely assists other units on campus with managing a variety of materials scheduled for recycling ...