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Trapping Trash and Diverting it From our Waterways Workshop
Trash Trapping Devices = Technology and innovations that help capture anthropogenic debris from aquatic ecosystems, while collecting data to quantitatively measure our impact Globally, the contamination of plastic waste in freshwater and marine ecosystems is...
One Health Circle – Under the microscope: Microplastics in our environment and policies for action on all plastics
Past Event Recording Available Hosted by the University of Calgary's One Health, on February 24th at 7pm - a conversation around the emergence of plastics as contaminants of concern. Dr. Leland Jackson (ACWA and UCalgary) and Tammy Schwass (Alberta Plastics Recycling...
Alberta Plastics Data Project RFP
The Alberta Plastics Recycling Association is now accepting proposals for the Alberta Plastics Data Project RFP. The deadline for submission is noon MT on February 10, 2021. Please submit questions and proposals to tammy [at] albertaplasticsrecycling.com Questions...
Alberta Partners Advance Plastics Data Project
Alberta Plastics Recycling Association Receives Zero Plastic Waste Funding from the Federal Government January 21, 2021 – The Alberta Plastics Recycling Association (APRA) is pleased to announce a new project to collect data on the generation of plastics within...
As Alberta seeks to become a recycling hub, experts say it needs to hold plastics producers accountable
Published in the Edmonton Journal, December 26, 2020 Recycling advocates say for Alberta to become a North American recycling hub, it needs to take plastics manufacturers to task on designing and directing where products go once they’ve been used. As part of its...
Foam Recycling Event Assesses Future Program Viability
On Saturday September 12, a round up was held for Red Deer Residents to recycle Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) (commonly known by Dow’s tradename as Styrofoam). The pilot collection event was a collaboration between NOVA Chemicals, Styro-Go, the Alberta Recycling...
Circular Logic
Alberta's Farm Plastics Recycling Economy Continues to Grow From grain bags to plastic pellets to grain bags: that’s the circular vision of the many stakeholders behind the Alberta Ag-Plastic. Recycle It! program. The aim of the three-year pilot project is to collect...
Federal announcement on plastics pollution
October 7 - Today, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the next steps in the Government of Canada’s plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030. The plan will protect wildlife and our waters, reduce greenhouse gas...
Alberta Announces Natural Gas Strategy
The Strategy, announced on October 6, lists key priorities including advancing a plastics circular economy in the province. The Natural Gas Vision and Strategy is a key part of Alberta’s Recovery Plan and shares the actions Alberta’s government will take to grow the...
Alberta’s working to make its plastics industry sustainable
September 16 - Published in the Edmonton Journal. Op-ed by Tammy Schwass Canadians have relied on the sanitary benefits of plastic during the coronavirus pandemic, with some reports showing upwards of a 250-per-cent increase in single-use plastic. As Albertans, we are...
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