Innovating Canada
Circular Economy 2023
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UN Treaty Is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to End Plastic Pollution
Negotiations for a UN treaty to end plastic pollution highlight that tackling this issue isn’t a utopian ideal, but an urgent mission. With the latest research indicating that there are over 170 trillion plastic particles floating in the ocean, it’s clear that plastic pollution is a global problem that needs a global solution. The Second...
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Utilizing the Circular Economy to Boost Innovation and Competitiveness
To address the climate crisis, we must first fix the economy by moving away from our current linear industries and supply chains. By adopting a circular economy approach, Canada has a unique opportunity to simultaneously foster innovation, enhance competitiveness and supply chain resiliency, and achieve its net-zero climate goals, benefiting the long-term prosperity of people...
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Addressing Climate Change and Natural Resource Protection through Circularity
The circular economy is key to combating climate change and driving sustainable economic growth. Discover how to unlock its power. As the urgency to combat climate change grows, it’s becoming clear that current efforts to cut carbon emissions will fall short. For Canada to achieve its climate targets, we need to think beyond tailpipes and...
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Making Fashion Circular or How to Make Your Wardrobe Circular
As citizens who buy clothes, we play an important role in making fashion circular. The 7Rs of circular fashion make it easy! Just as in the traditional 3R waste hierarchy, reduce is the most important R in fashion as well. We buy 60 per cent more clothes today than we did 20 years ago, and...
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The Beverage Industry — Pioneers of Producer Responsibility
The Canadian beverage industry is leading the way in its embrace of the circular economy and enhanced producer responsibility. Over the past 40 years, the Canadian beverage industry has emerged as a frontrunner in its commitment to developing world-leading extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems. Across Canada, producers take full financial and operational responsibility to collect...
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How a Battery Recycling Hub Hopes to Charge Kootenay’s Economy
With a feasibility study underway, this Western Canada region is poised to become a hub for recycling EV batteries. Metal Tech Alley, is looking to transform the West Kootenay region in British Columbia into a major hub for recycling lead and lithium-ion (electric vehicle (EV)) batteries — and, in the process, to promote sustainability and...
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How Canada’s Railways Are Moving the Circular Economy Forward
Parliamentarians are studying electronics, metals, and plastics recycling. Rail is green transportation and Canadian railways are growing the circular economy. Canada’s railways are a backbone of our economy. They also help underpin the circular economy and enable its expansion. Rail is green transportation. While moving 50 per cent of Canada’s exports, railways represent just 3.6...
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Don’t Bin Bottles and Cans! Canada’s Beer Industry Leads the Circular Economy
Bringing all beer containers and packaging back to an authorized return location is the choice that makes Canada’s original circular economy work. Waste is a choice. That’s the fundamental idea at the heart of the circular economy. Sometimes it’s a choice made by consumers, sometimes by government, often by business. But somewhere along the way,...
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We All Play a Role in the Success of the Paper Packaging Circular Economy
The paper packaging industry is an extremely successful example of how the circular economy can function. As a circular economy, the paper packaging industry mostly uses recycled materials to provide innovative and environmentally sustainable packaging solutions for Canadians. The industry uses a renewable resource from sustainably managed forests and primarily utilizes recycled content for the...
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Paving the Way: Canada Plastics Pact’s Ambitious Journey to a Circular Plastics Economy
In the heart of Canada, a transformative shift is taking place — one that aims to redefine our relationship with plastic. If you’ve recently strolled through a major retailer, amidst a sea of plastic packaging, you may have noticed a glimmer of hope. Among the shelves, you might find a Dove refillable deodorant stick from...
