Cleaning up after a home renovation is the least fun part of the process. Might we recommend a junk removal service or dumpster/bin rental. Using either of these, it eliminates a lot of the challenges that come with not having a vehicle to haul away those large chunks of garbage, debris, and waste. Remember, if you’ve got junk to get off your property, speaking with a local Toronto junk removal company provides an easy fix.

The average Canadian household does not have the excessive space to accommodate renovation junk. Not only that but physically taking this waste to a landfill or processing facility is not realistic. Browsing junk removal and home renovation cleanup companies, you’ll notice that some even offer same-day service. This is great for anyone with a lot of waste that needs to be moved fast. Maximize efficiency across your home renovation by partnering with a company you trust. Junk removal services can be arranged either via pick-up or through a dumpster rental.

Comprised of so many different components, electronics are not your average waste product. Proper disposal requires careful consideration and any electronics or computer waste should be separated from one’s general trash. How to dispose of electronics in Canada centers on policies designed to protect the environment. There’s so many ways electronics can be reused and/or discarded in a responsible way. There’s no excuse to let these products end up in our landfills.

Using a Waste Management Company for E-Waste

There are some provincial electronic recycling programs out there and there are also waste management companies willing to take your electronic waste. These services were designed to fill the gap that exists in garbage collection as few municipalities will pick up electronics. If you don’t have a drop-off location in your local region, you may want to seek out services from a company specializing in electronic waste and disposal of unwanted electronics.

Across Canada, food waste is a growing concern with approximately 40 percent of all food produced here being thrown out and discarded. That’s more than $31 billion annually. There are a lot of reasons as to why. In many cases, some blame grocers and organizations selling food. They’ve been criticized for throwing out foods past expiry when there are opportunities to donate. There are also reported issues with overproduction and overstocking.

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If Canada’s going to see reductions on its $31 billion in food waste, organizations like Second Harvest might serve as a guiding light. Second Harvest is a Toronto charity connecting non-profit organizations in Ontario with food suppliers and distributors. When there is excess food, it gets distributed amongst these organizations. Coordination initiatives like this serve a great purpose and, if applied across Canada, could make an immense difference.

A recent study published analyzing Ontario municipalities’ treatment of construction waste demonstrates there’s a mix of approaches, some working well and others not so much.

Construction waste varies from gravel to concrete, sand, asphalt, and more. Beyond general construction materials, millions of tonnes of reusable asphalt and concrete aggregate are produced every year in Ontario.

Though the majority of it is used in construction and road development projects, regional policies can sometimes make it more difficult to recycle these sorts of aggregate products. Sadly, the result is that millions of tonnes of otherwise recyclable aggregate is being tossed into landfills, which is a taxpayer expense.

Imagine a system where every time you put garbage out to the curb, later that month, you’d receive a bill in the mail for ‘garbage services rendered’.

This is a system supported and being proposed by some environmental groups across Canada as a way of reducing waste production. The idea behind it would essentially be a tax to municipal governments supporting waste management efforts any time one puts out garbage.

Conversely, should a home not put out any garbage, they don’t receive a bill at all. Though proponents say this incentivizes waste reduction and creates a more efficient system, some have argued it could have a negative impact on companies or households looking to avoid a bill and choosing to dispose of their waste by illegal means.

Any Toronto home or business wants to dispose of its garbage in a fast, environmentally efficient, and easy way. As a waste management company, we absolutely understand that need and we do our best to provide that with our high quality Toronto dumpster rental services. Every day, we receive requests from across the GTA requesting dumpster rentals, bin rentals, and collection services. These are just a few of the reasons people come to us seeking a bin rental.

1 – Home Renovation Dumpster Rentals

Home renovations come with a wide range of responsibilities, including applying for permits, reviewing building codes, material purchasing, hiring workers, and keeping everything on budget. Dumpster bin rentals for home renovations can help keep a project on budget and on time, making waste collection easy. Providing same day drop-off, give us a call and fill up your bin with renovation waste as needed. Give us a call when you’re done, and we’ll come and pick it up, ensuring your home renovation stays on track.

Illegal dumping is a real concern in Toronto, Ontario. Illegal dumping leads to waste getting into our waterways and potentially hazardous materials being released into our environment not having been processed.

Using dumpster rentals and bin rentals, help to support an environmentally-friendly future with no illegal dumping. Across residential, commercial, and industrial construction sites, there’s always going to be waste produced. This is an inevitability. When working on a construction site, a dumpster bin helps to provide an area to input all your waste. There are many advantages to setting up a dumpster bin. And, when hiring a dumpster rental company, pick-ups and drop-offs can be arranged as needed to ensure your construction schedule is accommodated. It’s a great arrangement to help keep things moving in the right directly and to not get bogged down in all that waste.

Demolition services in Toronto vary according to whether it is for a commercial or residential project.

Commercial Demolition in Toronto

There are two kinds of commercial demolition services – partial demolition and whole demolition. A partial demolition is selective, considering the businesses or off-limits areas around what is being demolished and working around this. A partial demolition may also consider limited budgets or strict timetables. Sometimes, a partial demolition will be recommended, especially in the circumstance of some of Toronto’s historical buildings which the City may want to retain.

It’s not every day that we see a game-changing waste and recycling technology come along. Nevertheless, using a type of bacteria, Canadian-based researchers partnering with a Toronto-based start-up have found a way to turn food waste into compostable plastic.

Genecis is a company based at the University of Toronto and they’ve been doing research into how to get the most from the city’s green bin waste. Surprisingly, the company has made a significant discovery. Using waste like banana peels and cardboard takeout containers, Genecis developed a process to produce a petroleum alternative for plastic.

We don’t usually associate high efficiency recycling with Canada’s north. That’s not to say they do a bad job at recycling but rather, a lot of the challenges we like to discuss are relevant to larger cities such as Toronto.

Despite this, something really interesting has happened in the Northwest Territories that we want to highlight. The region implemented a massive recycling program targeting waste across NWT, resulting in saving more than 325 million containers from ending up in landfills, since 2005. Spearheaded by Environment and Natural Resources deputy minister Joe Dragon, this is a huge accomplishment for a region of Canada we don’t often see in the news for such things.

Waste is not garbage – waste is resources that haven’t been refined yet. It’s time to change the conversation and the why we talk about waste. As a waste management company, we see untapped potential every day across Toronto.

The waste output of residential, commercial, and industrial facilities are considered a nuisance by those who put them out. To others though, that waste may be almost as good as gold. If Toronto’s going to change the way it handles waste management, it’s time to see waste for what it really is – that’s, above all else, a resource.

Canadian manufacturers inevitably produce a large amount of waste and in Ontario, with the sizeable number of manufacturers we have here in the province, this makes a sizeable dent in our environmental record.

The difficulty with something like manufacturing is that it’s not a sector of waste production that can be minimized by making a different choice. No matter the product, manufacturing facilities are always going to produce waste to some degree. Thereby, the challenge becomes how to reduce waste in these environments without affecting efficiency of production. This is an unpopular conversation to have, with no clear answer.

Canada has many plastic polluters, including some of the world’s biggest plastic-producing corporations. Compiling 2018’s list of top plastic polluters in Canada, some names you might recognize and other names you may not have guessed.

Recently compiled by Greenpeace, auditing Canada’s top plastic polluting brans revealed several things. Cleaning up Canada’s shorelines, five companies’ products were found in great quantities. Nestle, Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, PepsiCo, and the Coca-Cola Company were those names.

Despite the recyclability of plastic bottles and similar packaging materials, so much plastic still ends up in Canada’s waterways. Greenpeace’s Break Free from Plastic campaign launched an assessment of more than 10,000 litres of plastic garbage, ranging from food wrappers to bottles and plastic-lined coffee cups. This garbage was procured from cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. Though Nestle, Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola may seem like the ones to blame, some are looking towards consumers and their knowledge. For example, in the past, as cleanups were completed one day, the next day just as much plastic ends up washed up in Canadian waters and shores.

Are you searching for a demolition company in Toronto – we can help. Core Mini Bins is an experienced demolition company specializing in residential, commercial, and industrial projectors. With over 20 years of experience behind us, we have the knowledge and means of removing unwanted structures from a property in preparation of a new construction.

Some of the equipment we’ve used in the past includes heavy excavators, big loaders, track driven blades, skid skeet, and forklifts. From the initial stages of planning through to completion, we are a one-stop shop for all demolition and disposal. In the past, we’ve worked alongside custom home builders to assist in the removing of brick and concrete, removing garbage and waste from the premises, and supporting ongoing construction work through alternative services like junk removal, dumpster rentals, and more.

It’s not often talked about in mainstream media but for all the positive news there’s been in the last decade on recycling in Canada, there’s a crisis that has happened in the last couple years that is in need of address.

Recycling works because it provides financial rewards to the organizations and owners of the facilities who produce recycled products. When one takes away or changes the rules of the marketplace that makes something like recycling plastic financially viable, it changes the way we recycle. Today’s worldwide recycling industry has had things happen wherein it’s made it more difficult to recycle select products.

Globally, there’s been a crash in the market for recyclables. Across North America, cities are having to choose how they are to recycle bottles, cans, and plastics, sometimes opting to send these to landfills because they either don’t have the facilities or they don’t know how to derive profit from these materials. In the United States in particular, there are reports of paper-filled sorting centers with nowhere to send their materials, cities having to pay high processing fees to take materials that no longer have much financial profit attached, and some recycling centers that have shut down completely.

Food waste is a problem in Canada, the United States, and around the world. Though we may not associate food packaging with having a positive relationship to food waste, some advocates are calling for an increase on packaging.

The ‘why’ is because of the belief more packaging would prevent food spoilage, a serious issue in supermarkets and food sellers across North America. To the other end of the argument, opponents suggest this would only create more plastic waste.

How to combat the growing food waste problem is unclear but what isn’t is that the food waste issue is very real. The United States alone creates up to 63 million tons of food waste every year, which comes in at a loss of $218 billion when one considers the investment in growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food. Additionally, if one were to consider the vast array of resources used – water, land, fertilizer, labor, energy – one comes to understand the real impact.

When the average Canadian handles a food container that looks and feels like plastic, we’ve been instructed this isn’t recycling and it should be placed in the garbage. Surprisingly so, there are many packaging and plastic containers being provided out there that are in fact recyclable. The fact that they are near identical to their non-recyclable counterparts however means compostable containers are being accidentally tossed out with the trash.

Recently, the CBC published an article highlighting the increase in compostable packaging in Prince Edward Island. In this province, all restaurants have been legislated to switch to compostable packaging. This has created a challenge though for sorters at their waste management corporation. Simply put, they cannot tell which containers are compostable and which are not. Subsequently, not all Islanders are educated on how to identify containers that are and aren’t. Though initially promising, needless to say, this new system of compostable plastics is not helpful to anyone.

The Ottawa-Gatineau tornado that tore through different neighborhoods in Canada’s capital left a lot of garbage to clean up. Homes’ roofs were completely ripped off, cars overturned, and power lines left fallen on the ground.

The community has come together to help clean up a lot of what’s been tossed around and garbage removal companies have played a central role in this. As one of Toronto’s biggest garbage removal companies, we would like to take this article to salute the efforts of all of our competitors in Ottawa who have taken it upon themselves to help citizens in dire need.

Companies like ours have helped to pull fridges out from basements, clear debris from yards, unload furniture, and so much more. Small businesses have called on garbage removal companies to help regain assets that were either damaged or strewed about. The small collection of residents who are moving are also using these companies to assist in clearing out their past property.

The zero waste movement is alive and well across Canada as corporate partner, individual Canadian households, and municipalities continue to drive towards a more environmentally-friendly future. As a concept, zero waste is a very attractive lifestyle to many. Zero waste preaches a reduction in the waste we use by creating circular economic systems wherein the products we consume can then be recycled, repurposed, or remanufactured into something else.

In the last decade, Toronto recycling programs have focused on taking waste from the curb through to repurposing operations. If you’ve ever wanted to know what happens once your recycling leaves the curb and where it goes, let us share.

Toronto’s recycling program\ is available to all citizens. Detached households, semi-detached homes, apartments, and condo developments all are subject to garbage and recycling standards. Despite the availability of recycling, not all apartments and condo complexes do just that. As a matter of fact, we’ve seen several apartment buildings across the GTA in the last decade who have not made an effort to collect recycling and instead, opting for a single garbage pick-up. If your property manager is not interested in registering for recycling, that creates a very difficult situation for tenants who want to recycle.

As one of Toronto’s top dumpster rental companies, we know the ins and outs of the challenges of bin rentals in the GTA. If you are searching for a dumpster rental in the GTA, we would love to assist in finding you the right bin size for your needs.

Be it for a residential home or a business looking to dispose of their garbage quickly and easily, a dumpster rental is pretty straightforward. All that’s required is for you to give us a call and speak with one of our representatives. After a specific bin has been decided on, we arrange for drop-off and pick-up at the most appropriate time according to your schedule.

Not all plastics are made equal. Surprising to some, there are many different kinds of plastics – some of which are recyclable and some of which not. Though plastics are traditionally tossed into the blue bin, this occasionally creates complications.

It just might be time to re-think how we do recycling in Toronto and what we choose to include. A lot of the contemporary debate on plastics in recycling in Canada is spurred from China deciding it was no longer accepting foreign plastics onto its shores. It was that decision that left many North American municipalities without a defined plan on where their plastics were to go.

The City of Toronto has recently launched a new app to assist with the City’s waste disposal problem. Downloadable under the tag ‘TOwaste’, this app has been designed as an easy way to help Toronto take out its trash.

For residential waste management and pick-up, the new TOwaste app is a big deal. Free to download across iOS and Android platforms, the TOwaste app is a part of Toronto’s ongoing commitment to better waste management. The City’s Long Term Waste Management Strategy program came up with the TOwaste app as a means of supporting reuse and diversion here in the GTA.

Finding a way to remove furniture and other junk is not always easy. Even trying to find a way to lug it to a friend’s place or to a donation centre can prove to be hard. As a top Toronto junk removal company, we offer garbage and junk removal and disposal across the GTA. Specializing in waste management, recycling, dumpster rentals, and junk removal, Core Mini Bins has always had the ambition to be there for Torontonians far and wide. Now, we can be. If you are in need of removing a single item or multiple pieces of furniture, we can have same-day junk removal services on their way to you. All it takes is a phone call!

Earlier this year, China refused to continue allowing plastic waste from abroad into its borders. In response, many waste management companies across North America were left without arrangements. As things began to change to accommodate China’s ban on plastics, demand rose on certain plastics and fell on others.

This highlights the troublesome predicament many municipalities face. As much as they may like to recycle everything, what they can recycle is reserved only to the facilities that surround them and the pathways down which they can send waste.

It’s the market that dictates what can be recycled and what cannot. If there’s no demand for a given recycling product, it may eventually end up in a landfill somewhere. Across Ontario, there are plastics that end up in landfills simply because we don’t have a way to recycle them. The long-term viability of certain plastics and recycling products is up in the air at the moment, because of the lack of market there is. There are many different kinds of plastic out there. We would like to highlight a few here to use as an example of what we mean.