It's a sure sign of spring in London. The snow is melting and long-buried cigarette butts are resurfacing. "Basically all litter that's been piling up becomes that much more visible," said Jay Stanford, the director of fleet and solid waste at the city. So, where do they all go? For the past few years, butts collected in the city's pole-mounted bins have been sent to Terracycle, a company that specializes in recycling unusual products.

Vancouver-based recycling company TerraCycle has launched a new program aimed at recycling plastic writing utensils that are often simply discarded when they run out of ink.

From cigarette buts to flip-flops, Tom Szaky of TerraCycle believes everything can be recyclable. In Tom Szaky’s vision of the new economy, nothing is garbage. Not cigarette butts. Not dirty diapers. Not even used tampons.

Canadians can now recycle flexible food packaging waste from Hain Celestial products through the company’s new TerraCycle programs.

RICHMOND HILL, ON, Dec. 1, 2017 /CNW/ - Staples Canada and Earth Day Canada have issued a call for entries for the annual Superpower your School Contest. Environmentally conscious elementary and secondary schools across Canada are invited to enter the contest for a chance to win one of 10 prizes of $20,000 in new technology from Staples.

RICHMOND HILL, ON, Dec. 1, 2017 /CNW/ - Staples Canada and Earth Day Canada have issued a call for entries for the annual Superpower your School Contest. Environmentally conscious elementary and secondary schools across Canada are invited to enter the contest for a chance to win one of 10 prizes of $20,000 in new technology from Staples.

Apart from newspaper, plastics and glass, there are many things in your home which can be recycled. Any home generates a lot of garbage, and most of this garbage contains things which can be put to use again, including used diapers. A company in Canada is extracting the plastic and paper from used diapers and recycling that to make plastic components, recycled paper, tubing and roof tiles. This just goes to show that almost everything can be recycled these days.

Now more than ever, it’s important that we reduce our ecological footprint to create a greener world for the future. Scouts Canada has always encouraged members to do their part to create a cleaner environment, whether it be through litter cleanups or leave-no-trace initiatives that encourage people to leave the surrounding environment the way they found it. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to be green, and there are so many things you can recycle!

Now more than ever, it’s important that we reduce our ecological footprint to create a greener world for the future. Scouts Canada has always encouraged members to do their part to create a cleaner environment, whether it be through litter cleanups or leave-no-trace initiatives that encourage people to leave the surrounding environment the way they found it. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to be green, and there are so many things you can recycle!

I recently experienced some great customer service, via Twitter no less, and I thought it would be worth writing a quick blog post about.