Why the war on plastics can do more harm than good

by Calvin Lakhan Recently, I had the pleasure of giving a guest lecture to a group of Fleming College students enrolled in the waste management program. It's always so exciting to see how many young and curious minds are entering the space - the future of waste management research is a bright one. As part

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Ontario's big cities face looming landfill shortage after change to approvals process

Managing risk Critics have raised environmental concerns related to landfills, particularly with respect to possible groundwater contamination. It's a concern that Calvin Lakhan, a waste researcher at York University, can understand. "There's a lot of safeguards put in place to mitigate or completely avoid a lot of the environmental hazards that landfills could pose. With

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Reduce, reuse and rethink: Re-defining our goals for a waste management system

For the first time in my career, issues surrounding waste management have now become part of mainstream discussion. Whether it be my neighbors asking me “Can this really be recycled?” to growing concerns surrounding single use plastics, people (both the public and policy makers alike), care now more than ever regarding what is happening to

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Switching from traditional single-use plastic pods to compostable pods could reduce plastics by the height of more than 4,000 CN towers annually

Kraft Heinz Releases Maxwell House Compostable Coffee Pods in Canada Post Doc Calvin Lakhan, industry expert and leading environmental researcher at Toronto's York University says, "Both brands and consumers have a critical role to play in driving sustainability forward through innovative technology and developing solutions that balance the demands of modern society with the needs

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