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In Canada 🇨🇦 it seems when residents are supplied with recycling programs almost everyone uses them.
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Prince Edward Island led the pack for both access and utilisation: 99% of households reported having access to and making use of at least one recycling program. Overall, 97% of Nova Scotia households and 95% of Ontario households had access to at least one recycling program. Looking at provinces that lagged in terms of access to recycling programs, Alberta, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador provided below-median access to recycling programs. However, the large majority of households with access to recycling used at least one recycling program in these provinces. Manitoba was below the median for use of all recycling programs. While 90% of households in the province had access to recycling programs, only 88% of these households recycled, making Manitobans least likely to recycle.
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Not only do most Canadians recycle but over the years more Canadians have gained access to recycling programs increasing the amount of Canadians that recycle.
But what is recyclable in Canada? How sustainable are our recycling programs?
Officials from Environmental Defence tell us:
Less than 11 per cent of all plastics are recycled in Canada90 per cent of plastics end up incinerated, or in our landfills, lakes, parks and oceansOnce in the environment, plastic waste contaminates ecosystems, kill wildlife, and leach toxic chemicals
The 720 kilos per capita of waste produced annually by every Canadian is about twice what is produced per capita in Japan, and as much as 10 times what is produced by a half-dozen countries in Africa. More alarmingly, our production is seven per cent higher than per capita ouput of waste in the United States, which all but invented consumer excess.
mid-2016 revealed that Tim Hortons, while inviting customers to place their disposable coffee cups in recycling containers, was not in fact recycling the cups in most parts of Canada, but merely sending them to landfills (the cups have a thin plastic lining that prevents them from joining the paper stream in many recycling programs). Estimates suggest that Canadians use between 1.6 and 2 billion disposable coffee cups a year. These represent up to 35,000 tonnes of paper, made from more than 70,000 tonnes of raw wood, harvested from thousands of hectares of forest. "So much for preserving your resources," says Hoornweg.
"When people think their stuff is being recycled, it clears their conscience, no matter what is actually happening beyond the blue box," says Hird. "Our research shows that when their conscience is clear they tend to consume more than ever. Since Canadians started recycling in earnest maybe 30 years ago, consumerism in this country has done nothing but climb."
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