Tag: waste
City of Vancouver launches cigarette waste recycling program
The City of Vancouver launched a new pilot program called “The Cigarette Waste Brigade” to recycle cigarette waste (i.e. cigarette butts). It is the first cigarette waste recycling program in the world. The program launched in November 2013 with the installation of 110 new cigarette recycling receptacles in downtown Vancouver. The goal of the program […]
Global Natural Resource Supply and Demand
This past Tuesday, August 20th was an annual milestone that most of us were probably unaware of – Earth Overshoot Day. On Monday analysts projected that we consumed more and produced more waste than our planet can replenish or reabsorb. The first day when this happened was December 29th in 1970, and Earth Overshoot Day […]