Energy, Recycled Cars and Fossil Fuels
Guy Dauncey and BCSustainable Energy Association a.k.a BCSEA (he also writes EcoNews in Victoria, BC) is successfully developing the province-wide SolarBC program, to accelerate solar hot water use; the Green Landlords Project to tackle energy inefficient buildings that house low income people and advocating for better government climate action policies. Visit BCSEA’s website for some eco success stories.
Canada still has not comprehensively addressed car recycling; only 45% , according to Automotive Recyclers of Canada (ARC), are “de-polluted” (polluting fuels and fluids removed and recycled) by registered members; 75% of a car, which is mostly metal, is recycled but not all - plastics, glass, foam etc. goes to landfill. There is a product possible for every part of a car as long as we are willing to invest long term and close the recycling loop.
Some towns, cities and regions are successfully recycling all car recyclates…look to Edmonton as the world leader in recycled materials reclamation. Edmonton is aiming for 90% recovery of waste by 2013. As a recycling obssessive, Edmonton is nirvana. Those of us who live in places that keep filling up landfill, we just have to keep advocating government to ‘clean up’ - or we can support people like Guy Dauncey and BCSEA who advocate for us.