recycling

Most solar manufacturers claim their panels will last for about 25 years. That means the solar e-waste glut is coming.

The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from illegally ending up on foreign shores, after needing to bring dozens of shipping containers of rotting garbage back home from at least two Asian countries last year.

America Recycles Day promoted by EPA is brainchild of not-for-profit backed by companies that produce plastic products.

Scientists spent weeks up to their elbows in coffee grounds and banana peels to come up with what they say is the most accurate measure yet of how much food is wasted in Canadian kitchens.

Buying a sturdy plastic to-go tumbler is an appealing way to feel like you are doing something proactive in the battle against climate change and plastic waste — but there might be better ways to help.

More than 20,000 people chowed down on pancakes last weekend during a family breakfast on the Calgary Stampede grounds.

An infamous load of Canadian trash that had been rotting in the Philippines for more than five years has come full circle, arriving by ship at a port south of Vancouver on Saturday, June 29, 2019, morning.

The province's environment minister thinks the Trudeau government's offer to put carbon-tax revenue toward school renovations is patronizing: 'We're big boys and girls.'

The federal government has issued no permits for Canadian companies to ship trash overseas since regulations changed three years ago but Canadian garbage is still showing up unwanted in Asian nations.

Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that could bar three dozen countries from shipping any kind of garbage, even recyclables, to the developing world.

As the clock ticks down on Ontario's provincial election, reporter Katie Kalmusky asks the Liberal, Conservative, NDP and Green parties for their take on a movement trying to scrap bottled water from the picture.

Many recycling centres in Quebec have been struggling as China closed its doors to foreign recycling. About 60 per cent of recycling material in Quebec used to be exported to the country.

Canada plans to use its presidency of the G7 this year to push fellow member countries to help stop the oceans from becoming massive rubbish heaps.