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 Highlights:

  • RCA Celebrates 25th Anniversary
  • Denmark Plans Zero Waste Hotel
  • “Wide World of Waste”
    2012 RCA Conference Announcement
  • Hire an RCA Ambassador!
  • Think Green Success Story: First Canadian Load of Twine Shipped to Closed-Loop Recycler
  • Medicine Hat and Surrey Launch Apps for Waste and Recycling
  • RCA Membership Survey Results
  • From Waste to High-End Shoes
  • U of C Gets Their SustainabilityON
  • News
  • Market Updates

 Previous Issues

Connector - Fall 2011

 
Fall 2011 - Highlights:
  • RCA Means Business at its Annual Waste Reduction Conference
  • Poem: The Day After Christmas
  • Think Green Success Story: Rolling Towards Sustainability
  • RCA Honours 2011 Waste Reduction Winners
  • Waste Reduction Week 2011
  • Green Cart Pilot Gets Green Light in Calgary
  • Meet the Minister
  • Edmonton's Small Business Eco Challenge Winners Announced
  • Municipal Waste is Not Renewable Fuel
  • Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates

 Connector - Summer 2011

 
Summer 2011 - Highlights:
  • Recyclers Mean Business
  • Ray Anderson - Vision and Inspiration
  • Think Green Success Story: PepsiCo Unveils Canada's First 100% Recycled PET Soft Drink Bottle
  • A Thought on Stewardship
  • 2011 WRW Ease My Load Campaign
  • ICI Waste Diversion in Calgary
  • Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates

 Spring 2011 Connector Cover Page

 

Spring 2011 - Highlights:

  • Team Canada Antarctica 2011
  • Editorial: A Disconnect in the Big Easy
  • Think Green Success Story: Reducing Waste no Mickey Mouse Feat
  • Garbage-Free February
  • 2011 Recycling Ambassador Project
  • Reducing Confusion: Standardized Labels
  • New Member Profile: Molok North America Ltd.
  • Greener Business Stories
  • Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Winter 2011

Winter 2011 - Highlights:

  • Changes to Alberta's Tire Recycling Program
  • Stats Can Report Shows Alberta Still Tops in Waste Generation
  • Think Green Success Story: Organics Recycling at U of A
  • Baler Twine Goes Closed Loop
  • Agricultural Service Boards Pass Resolution on Ag Plastics
  • Henry Ford - The First Investment Recovery Practitioner?
  • Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Fall 2010

Fall 2010 - Highlights:

  • Building Tomorrow in Lake Louise
  • Guest Letter
  • Think Green Success Story: Calgary Blue Cart Program Wins PMI Award
  • RCA Ambassador Program Gears Up for 2011
  • RCA Honours Waste Reduction Winners
  • Waste Reduction Week 2010
  • Alberta, Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Summer 2010

Summer 2010 - Highlights:

  • Waste Reduction Week in Canada Celebrates 10 Years
  • 2010 Ambassador Program
  • Think Green Success Story: CBE's Waste Reduction Efforts
  • You call it Styrofoam… We call it Expanded Polystyrene
  • Recyclers Ready to Converge on Lake Louise
  • StatsCan Releases Household Recycling Results for 2007
  • Development of a Recycling Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit Protocol in Alberta
  • Alberta, Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Spring 2010

Spring 2010 - Highlights:

  • Province and Retailers Agree to Reduce Plastic Bag Use
  • New Member Profile: Urban Impact
  • Think Green Success Story: Yellow Pages Group Reduces Directory Delivery
  • Sitting on Broken Glass
  • Meet the RCA's Summer Ambassadors
  • The Masdar Initiative
  • Merlin Accepting Agricultural Plastics
  • Alberta, Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Winter 2010

Winter 2010 - Highlights:

  • First Annual Curling Funspiel
  • Recycling 102 Presentations
  • Member Profile: Allied Paper Savers
  • Think Green Success Story: Olympic Medals Made With Electronic Waste
  • RCA Developing a GHG Protocol for Recycling
  • CleanFARMS to Build on Successful Agricultural Waste Programming
  • The Masdar Initiative
  • ECCO MRF Open House
  • News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Fall 2009

Fall 2009 - Highlights:

  • Waste Reduction Week 2009
  • Green Procurement Policy Template
  • Think Green Success Story: Zero Waste Staff Appreciation Picnic at University of Alberta
  • Major Developments in Agricultural Plastics Recycling
  • Recycling Council of Alberta Honors Waste Reduction Winners
  • Green For Gold - Conference Report
  • Products and Packaging Contribute 44% of US GHG Emissions
  • Rural Stories
  • Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Summer 2009

Summer 2009 - Highlights:

  • Waste Reduction Week in Canada 2009
  • RCA's Ambassador Project 2009
  • Think Green Success Story: Strathcona County Gets With the Green Routine
  • News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Spring 2009

Spring 2009 - Highlights:

  • Deposit Launched on Milk Containers
  • RCA's Ambassador Program Continues
  • Think Green Success Story: Follow-up to Cardboard Ban in Pincher Creek
  • New Member Profile: Good Life Community Bicycle Shop
  • Recycle-Logic Turns Five and Celebrates by Giving Back
  • Alberta, Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates
Connector - Winter 2009

Winter 2009 - Highlights:

  • New Edmonton Facility Closes the Loop on Recycling
  • RCA President's Editorial
  • Think Green Success Story: Yes We Can - Greening the Inauguration
  • Garbage "Island"
  • Differential Tipping Fees in Alberta
  • Alberta, Canadian and International News
  • Market Updates

 

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