What’s driving the Organics Food Waste ban in Metro Vancouver?
Metro Vancouver has been banning materials from local landfills for over 25 years. It began with banning cardboard from landfill. The latest banded material that added was organics in 2017.Read More
Does organics recycling have to smell?
Organics collection at your home or business does not have to smell, but there is no doubt about it, it can. Organics make up almost 35% of the waste stream.Read More
How to implement an organics recycling program at your company?
Implementing an organics recycling program at work is straightforward, we promise. Urban Impact works actively with our customers to ensure that the organics collection is easy to understand, convenient, tidy and picked up regularly!Read More
Shred Days in the Community
Urban Impact is proud to partner with a number of organizations to help them to host Shred Days in the community.We recently partnered with Vancity's Mission Community Branch. Urban Impact provided our onsite shred truck and a shred driver to help Vancity raise funds for SARA for Women Society.Read More
The Three R’s of Recycling
The Three R’s of Recycling ExplainedWhile the origin of the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” or (“3 R’s”) is unknown, some think its origin was in the mid 1970’s when the US Resource and Recovery Act was passed. The 3 R’s are frequently used and are certainly the cornerstone of many municipal and commercial recycling program communications strategies. The 3 R’s are simple, well established, recognizable and are easily recalled- a great ingredient to positive communication and a good cornerstone to marketing efforts.Read More
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