In 2018 the City of Victoria installed 50 cigarette butt canisters around the city in an effort to keep the streets and storm drains cleaner, and locals have been following suit. So far, more than 100,000 cigarette butts, weighing in at over 100 kg, have been collected.   The cylindrical canisters hang off of poles and posts in high-traffic areas, with a clearly-marked cigarette emblem on the side. Some of the canisters, said Rory Tooke, manager of sustainability, need to be changed daily, while others only need to be changed weekly.   “Public feedback has been very positive, and we receive many requests to install more canisters,” Tooke said in an emailed statement. “We expect collection to increase as more smokers become aware, and as the City continues to expand the number of canisters.”   The collected butts are then shipped over to the Greater Toronto area for processing. TerraCycle specializes in processing difficult-to-recycle materials, and turns the cigarette butts into plastic pellets used to create a wide range of new products.   nicole.crescenzi@vicnews.com

On November 8, 2019, Lift & Co. hosted their sixth annual awards to honour Canada’s top licensed producers, their products and their people.   “The Cannabis Council of Canada is proud to represent Canada’s licensed producers with a mission to promote high industry and product standards. Our members are among the most innovative companies in Canada, using state-of-the-art technology and research to develop the best products for Canadian consumers. We are proud to see many of our members receiving recognition at Lift & Co.’s sixth annual awards gala in Toronto.” said Megan McCrae, Chair of the Board.   The following Cannabis Council of Canada Members were recognized in the following categories:

• Top High-CBD Bottled Oil, CBD 25:1 Oil by Aphria
• Top Balanced Oil, Midnight Oil by Medreleaf
• Top High-THC Bottled Oil, Rossignol by Organigram
• Top Sativa-Dominant Pre-Roll by Good Supply (Aphria)
• Top Cannabis Spray, Sativa Oral Mist by Aurora Cannabis
• Top Cannabis Capsules, Argyle Softgels by Tweed (Canopy Growth Corp.)
• Top Hybrid Flower, Ruxton (Sour OG) by Broken Coast Cannabis (Aphria)
• Top Master Grower, Kevin Anderson, head grower at Broken Coast Cannabis (Aphria)
• Top Non-Profit/Charity/Community Initiative won by Tweed (Canopy Growth Corp.) x TerraCycle for their cannabis packaging recycling program
• Top Indica Flower, Pink Kush by San Rafael ’71 (Aurora)
• Top Sativa Flower, Tangerine Dream by San Rafael ’71 (Aurora)
• Brand of the Year won by 7ACRES (Supreme Cannabis Company)
• Innovation of the Year, Renew CBN Oil by Solei (Aphria)

  The Canadian Cannabis Awards (CCAs) are an annual event that recognizes excellence and innovation in Canada’s cannabis industry. The recipients of product awards are determined by Lift & Co. product reviews and public nominations or an industry judging panel.   The full list of recipients from the sixth Canadian Cannabis Awards can be found here.  

It is now possible for clinic clients to drop their used toothbrushes, empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers into a specially designed container directly at the Dental Center. It is the company Terracycle, specialized in the recovery of this type of waste, which will handle the recycling at the Dental Center.   "We have always been very sensitive to the environment," said Dr. Isabelle Deschênes, owner of the Dental Center. "We have been recycling paper, cardboard and ink cartridges for a long time now and we are no longer offering individual water bottles to our customers. It was important, however, to do even more ... "   In addition, customers and staff using the Center's coffee machine will also be able to collect coffee capsules. The same goes for all latex and nitrile gloves; which can represent more than 2,000 gloves per month.   Ms. Deschênes adds:   "These actions to help the environment will not be the last. There is still some way to go to manage a completely green dental clinic. "

TORONTO, /3BL Media/ - Gillette, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle, announce for the first-time in Canada, that all brands of disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and razor plastic packaging are recyclable on a national scale. Through the innovative partnership consumers are invited to recycle their razors in two ways:

• Gillette Razor Recycling Program - Participants wishing to recycle their razors from home are invited to sign up on the program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-CA/brigades/gillette-razor-recycling-program-ca-en. When ready to ship their waste, they can simply download a free TerraCycle shipping label, package the razors in a secure, puncture proof package and send it to TerraCycle for recycling.

• Gillette Razor Local Recycling Solutions – Businesses, gyms, colleges, cities and community organizations are invited to become public drop-off points for the Gillette Razor Recycling Program. Participants interested in becoming a drop-off point are invited to sign up on the program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-CA/brigades/gillette-razor-retailer-recycling-program-ca-en. After acceptance to the program, they will be sent an exclusive razor recycling bin developed by TerraCycle and Gillette. Once full, they can simply seal and return the bin to TerraCycle via UPS and a new one will be sent back to them. The address listed in the account will be posted on the publicly available map of local recycling solutions on the Gillette Razor Recycling Program page.

“Through this innovative, first of its kind program, disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and their associated packaging are now nationally recyclable through the Gillette Recycling Program,” said TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky. “We are proud to partner with this forward-thinking company to offer consumers a way to divert razor waste from landfills.” “We are very excited about our partnership with TerraCycle to offer recycling for Gillette, Venus or any razor brand across Canada. This is an important first step towards sustainable solutions for shaving products and the start of an exciting journey with Gillette and TerraCycle.” said Gillette Canada Leader, Jennifer Seiler. For every shipment of waste sent to TerraCycle through the Gillette Razor Recycling Program or the Gillette Razor Local Recycling Solution, collectors earn points that can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice. The collected packaging will be recycled into a variety of new consumer products such as park benches, bike racks, pet food bowls and recycling bins. To learn more about the program, please visit www.terracycle.ca. ABOUT GILLETTE For more than 115 years, Gillette has delivered precision technology and unrivalled product performance – improving the lives of over 800 million consumers around the world. From shaving and body grooming, to skin care and sweat protection, Gillette offers a wide variety of products including razors, shave gel (gels, foams and creams), skin care, after shaves, antiperspirants, deodorants and body wash. For more information and the latest news on Gillette, visit www.gillette.com. To see our full selection of products, visit www.gillette.ca. Follow Gillette on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. ABOUT PROCTER & GAMBLE P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit https://www.pg.com/ for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands. About TerraCycle TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste®. Operating nationally across 21 countries, TerraCycle partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers, cities, and facilities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up being landfilled or incinerated. In addition, TerraCycle works with leading consumer product companies to integrate hard to recycle waste streams, such as ocean plastic, into their products and packaging. TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for sustainability and has donated over $44 million to schools and charities since its founding 15 years ago. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved in its recycling programs, please visit www.terracycle.ca.

Wishing to help the planet, the students of the 5 year old kindergarten at the Meander School are carrying out a nice project of recovering old crayons so that they can be recycled and transformed into objects of everyday life. The project is also educational and growing outside the walls of the institution. Although the project has already been advanced by the Fondation du Méandre, it is anchored this year in the class of teacher Cynthia Lachapelle.   "The project is to collect pencils that contain ink originally and that no longer work," says the teacher. The desired pencils are pens, mechanical pencils, markers, highlighters, permanent markers, dry erase markers and color, with cap or not. The pencils are mine and colored.   After the harvest, the pencils are sent to TerraCycle as part of its vast campaign "Eliminate the Notion of Waste" active in more than 20 countries. The great American firm recovers and transforms, among others, pencils into everyday objects.   "Our goal in class is more educational: we count the pencils, so that at the end of the school year, we will know how much the students have recovered," says Ms. Lachapelle.   Learn through the game   When the pencils end up on the students' table after Mrs. Lachapelle has separated the prizes, in teams of four, according to their learning, they make bales of ten pencils, while others prepare bales of five. The teacher then bundles the packages with a tie.   "We learn how to make groupings so that they can learn to count in a fun way. They do not notice it because it is done by the game. Recycling is also an activity in which they want to get involved. Despite their age, they find it important to help the planet. "   Project of magnitude   Currently, most pencils come from parents. As of October 30, 180 pencils were amassed, counted and sorted.   In addition to primary, is the secondary school directly involved in the project? The teacher replied that energy has so far been channeled to the primary level, which does not prevent interested teachers from joining the project. High school students can easily find a place to drop the pencils.   In the class of Cynthia Lachapelle, 16 students participate in the project as well as a TES (Special Education Technician).   How to participate?   If you have the pencils that no longer work (pens, pencils, markers, highlighters, permanent markers, dry erase markers and colored pencils (they can come with or without the cap that is also recycled) you can route them by your children who will put them in the boxes that we have beautifully decorated. If you do not have children, you can come and bring them to the secretariat of the Meander School where there will be a box too. The pencils can also be deposited in boxes installed at CPE station Les P'tits Budgeons and Caisse Desjardins de la Rouge.

We need a luxury tax, do not throw away your Halloween garbage, no cellular antennas near schools  and other news to read on Tuesday, November 5th. 1- "We desperately need a luxury tax." Yancey Strickler is co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and worries about the growing gap between the richest and the poorest in the country. According to him, the strictly financial value brings no real value to the economy unless that value is transformed into something else. "It's been 50 years that we think only in terms of financial value, and our situation is worsening every day," he says, saying he favors a wealth tax "that would cover the needs of base of the famous Maslow pyramid, "he adds, on Yahoo .   2- Do not throw anything! This organization will collect your Halloween waste for you. Most candy and candy bars are not recyclable and generally end up in landfills. To counter this phenomenon, traders have joined the international organization Terracycle to recover all Halloween waste that will be reported to them over the next few days. Terracycle offers those interested in boxes in which to deposit this waste. These will then be reused, recycled or composted, depending on the type of material that composes them, explains the management of the shop La Looma, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, on his blog .   3- Apple and Disney very seriously threaten Netflix. With Apple TV + launched last week and Disney + coming up next week, the war of video-on-demand services is officially launched, and it seems that Netflix and Amazon will pay the price of this new competition. "All of these players are not going to survive," predicts PK Kannan, a marketing professor at the University of Maryland, Fortune .   4- How helicopters protect cannabis plants from freezing. The plant manager at cannabis producer 48North took great steps to protect his plants from cool nights: he asked a helicopter pilot to fly over his crops. The air movement caused by its propellers pulls moisture from the ground into the air, and pushes warmer air towards the plants, which reduces the effect of cold on the shoots, says BNN.   5- The number of the day: 53% (the share of children under 11 years old who owns a smartphone in the United States). This proportion rises to 84% in adolescence, according to a survey of the firm Common Sense Media taken over by NPR .   6- Antennas of cellular networks too close to schools scare parents. Residents of a neighborhood west of Toronto boarded the barricades earlier this fall, worrying that two long masts located less than 75 meters from the local elementary school, they thought were only there to support flags, were in fact two antennas of the cellular signal transmission of Freedom Mobile. These parents are demanding that these antennas be relocated, despite the fact that Health Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society recall that there is no link between the wireless networks of these networks and the disease. "Young children are so much more sensitive to all these pollutants in the environment," says a professor at Trent University in Peterborough.CBC .   7- Peaches and aubergines soon censored on Facebook? Facebook and Instagram have decided to end the use of "emoticons or emoticon sequences to the character commonly or contextually sexual" by their users. This is difficult because Facebook does not want to censor the "suggestive elements" as a whole, but still wants to eliminate the solicitation of a sexual nature, which implies the use of images of certain fruits or objects having sometimes such connotation, says Fast Company .   8- Rising sea levels threaten three times more people than expected. Researchers at Climate Central estimate that around 300 million people will see the place where they live flooded at least once a year by 2050, unless the banks and shores are better protected and that we reduce the impact of human activity on the climate. This is more than the 80 million people previously thought to be at risk, a review allowed by a more accurate assessment of the ground level by scientists. "The changing climate will radically transform cities, economies and entire populations in our lifetime," Scott Kulp, author of the report in question, told The Guardian .   9- India will open 100 airports within 5 years! It is likely to change the face of world trade, the populous country wanting to accelerate its economic growth by facilitating mobility throughout its territory. The ambitious project also includes the construction of 1,000 new roads by 2025 to better connect the country's towns and villages. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's turn comes as India's economy slumps to a six-year low, and the return of solid growth is slow to come on the horizon, says Bloomberg .   10- Here's how to completely eliminate blind spots by car. A young American student has created a project for a science fair that is likely to inspire more than one experienced automotive designer ...  

We need a luxury tax, do not throw away your Halloween garbage, no cellular antennas near schools  and other news to read on Tuesday, November 5th.   1- "We desperately need a luxury tax." Yancey Strickler is co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and worries about the growing gap between the richest and the poorest in the country. According to him, the strictly financial value brings no real value to the economy unless that value is transformed into something else. "It's been 50 years that we think only in terms of financial value, and our situation is worsening every day," he says, saying he favors a wealth tax "that would cover the needs of base of the famous Maslow pyramid, "he adds, on Yahoo .   2- Do not throw anything! This organization will collect your Halloween waste for you. Most candy and candy bars are not recyclable and generally end up in landfills. To counter this phenomenon, traders have joined the international organization Terracycle to recover all Halloween waste that will be reported to them over the next few days. Terracycle offers those interested in boxes in which to deposit this waste. These will then be reused, recycled or composted, depending on the type of material that composes them, explains the management of the shop La Looma, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, on his blog .   3- Apple and Disney very seriously threaten Netflix. With Apple TV + launched last week and Disney + coming up next week, the war of video-on-demand services is officially launched, and it seems that Netflix and Amazon will pay the price of this new competition. "All these players are not going to survive," predicts PK Kannan, a marketing professor at the University of Maryland, Fortune .   4- How helicopters protect cannabis plants from freezing. The plant manager at cannabis producer 48North took great steps to protect his plants from cool nights: he asked a helicopter pilot to fly over his crops. The air movement caused by its propellers pulls moisture from the ground into the air, and pushes warmer air towards the plants, which reduces the effect of cold on the shoots, says BNN.   5- The number of the day: 53% (the share of children under 11 years old who owns a smartphone in the United States). This proportion rises to 84% in adolescence, according to a survey of the firm Common Sense Media taken over by NPR .   6- Antennas of cellular networks too close to schools scare parents. Residents of a neighborhood west of Toronto boarded the barricades earlier this fall, worrying that two long masts located less than 75 meters from the local elementary school, that they thought they were only there to support flags, were in fact two antennas of the cellular signal transmission of Freedom Mobile. These parents are demanding that these antennas be relocated, despite the fact that Health Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society recall that there is no link between the wireless networks of these networks and the disease. "Young children are so much more sensitive to all these pollutants in the environment," says a professor at Trent University in Peterborough.CBC .   7- Peaches and aubergines soon censored on Facebook? Facebook and Instagram have decided to end the use of "emoticons or emoticon sequences to the character commonly or contextually sexual" by their users. This is difficult because Facebook does not want to censor the "suggestive elements" as a whole, but still wants to eliminate the solicitation of a sexual nature, which implies the use of images of certain fruits or objects having sometimes such connotation, says Fast Company .   8- Rising sea levels threaten three times more people than expected. Researchers at Climate Central estimate that around 300 million people will see the place where they live flooded at least once a year by 2050, unless the banks and shores are better protected and that we reduce the impact of human activity on the climate. This is more than the 80 million people previously thought to be at risk, a review allowed by a more accurate assessment of the ground level by scientists. "The changing climate will radically transform cities, economies and entire populations in our lifetime," says Scott Kulp, author of the report in question, at The Guardian .   9- India will open 100 airports within 5 years! It is likely to change the face of world trade, the populous country wanting to accelerate its economic growth by facilitating mobility throughout its territory. The ambitious project also includes the construction of 1,000 new roads by 2025 to better connect the country's towns and villages. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's turn comes as India's economy slumps to a six-year low, and the return of solid growth is slow to come on the horizon, says Bloomberg.   10- Here's how to completely eliminate blind spots by car. A young American student has created a project for a science fair that is likely to inspire more than one experienced automotive designer ...

Responsible Battery Coalition and Argonne partner on ReCell Program to identify best practices for designing batteries of the future

   

Volunteers from the group Sherbrooke en transition (SET) headed to the CHUS Fleurimont Monday as part of the initiative, Operation Zero Butts. The goal of the operation was threefold: to make smokers aware of the importance of not tossing their cigarette butts, to divert hundreds of cigarette butts from the environment, and to recover them and send them to Toronto-based company Terracycle where the ash and tobacco are composted, and remaining material is melted into hard plastic and remolded into industrial products. “Studies have shown that a single cigarette butt can contaminate 500 litres of water. In the snow, we talk about one cubic metre of contamination. All the toxic agents released end up in our soils and waterways,” explained Karyne Blanchette, SET member and co-organizer of the ‘Operation Zero Butts’ event. 

Your Halloween candy wrappers could be turned into park benches or flower pots thanks to the initiative of a Sherbrookoise.   "Refuse, reduce and recycle are basic rules of zero waste. There is a limit to refusing and reducing sweets to children on Halloween. So we looked for a way to recycle, "says Hélène Boissonneault, instigator of a project that aims to recover all the candy packaging instead of throwing them in the trash.   The company she co-founded, PH Effect, offers lectures and workshops for a minimalist lifestyle, zero waste and decluttering.   To reduce the environmental impact of this holiday that is ranked third in terms of spending behind Christmas and back to school, the entrepreneur decided to do business with the company Terra-cycle. The latter is responsible for recovering waste that is not normally recycled in municipal collections.   The company recovers, in twenty countries in the world, packaging, pens, coffee capsules, latex gloves or even shoes.   50 collection points   The operation is simple: just buy a Terra-cycle box online depending on the type of products you want. The garbage is dumped - in this case the candy wrappers - and the box is returned to the company.   The latter then takes care of sorting the waste, according to the materials, and sending them to companies that reuse and transform them.   "They take the waste and bring it back to a raw material that they send to the right places so that it can be used to produce other objects [such as park benches]," explains Ms. Boissonneault.   This is the first year that the entrepreneur has set up this project specifically for Halloween and she was surprised by the interest aroused by her initiative. Daycare centers and schools in Estrie, as well as businesses from as far as Rouyn-Noranda, contacted her.   "We had 4 or 5 collection points initially in the Sherbrooke area, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and on the North Shore of Montreal. We were happy, but the interest is so great that we are now at a [50] pickup locations throughout Quebec, "rejoices Ms. Boissonneault.   All but cardboard   The packaging of candies, chocolate, gums and even small bags of potato chips can be collected.   Only small cardboard boxes, such as the Smarties, are not allowed since they are already recycled in the municipal recycling system.