Waste

Timeline: 2023 onwards The City underwent a major Hazel McCallion Central Library renovation project and diverted 120,000 kg of City-owned items from landfill. When the library was closed for renovati…

Timeline: 2022 onwards Funded by The Regional Municipality of York’s Circular Economy Initiatives Fund, the online hub provides tools and resources to empower individuals, businesses, and organization…

Timeline: 2021 onwards Sixty-five per cent of food waste that could be eaten is produced by the industrial, commercial & institutional (IC&I) sector — restaurants, day cares, hospitals, retire…

Timeline: 2018 onwards The City of Oshawa has partnered with Diabetes Canada and York University on a textile recycling program to help combat textile waste in the City.  The textile recycli…

Timeline: 2021 onwards. In May 2021, Council approved the Textile Diversion Program and corresponding actions to help drastically increase textile diversion rates across the community through improved…

Timeline: 2018 onwards The City of London’s Wastewater Treatment Operations Division incinerates the dewatered waste solids at Greenway. A by-product of the incineration process was the heat which was…