ENGO joint response to regulatory proposals regarding blue box recycling and composting.
Strengthening producers responsibility for the Blue Box Program/Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act
Tag: landfill
Blog: Landfill “shortage” claims a redux distraction from need for dramatic waste reduction
Isobel Mason, CELA Communications Intern, blogs about the distraction of alarmist warnings about shrinking landfill capacity in Ontario and the need to switch the focus from where we put garbage towards stopping generating so much of it in the first place.
Proposal to amend the Food and Organic Waste Policy Statement
Joint submission from Toronto Environmental Alliance, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Citizens' Network on Waste Management, Environmental Defence, and Health and Environment Justice Support Response to ERO# 019-2498 Download submission here: ENGO-comment-ERO-019-2498-Food-Organic-Waste-Policy-Statement
Media Release: Statement from environmental and civil society groups on Ontario’s draft Blue Box regulation announcement
Statement from Environmental Defence, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Citizens' Network on Waste Management, Health and Environment Justice Support, Recycling Council of Ontario, Toronto Environmental Alliance, Waste Watch Ottawa.
Blog: Environment is a Social Justice Issue
Overview of environmental impacts on vulnerable communities, and associated programs and resources.
Responding to Basel Convention on Plastic Waste Amendments and Canada-US Arrangement on the trade of Plastic Waste
Fé de Leon, CELA and Olga Speranskaya, Health and Environment Justice Support Fé de Leon and Olga Speranskaya write the Plastics and Waste Management Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to support strong measures on plastic waste…