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Load-N-Lift Disposal Blog | Waste Management News & Tips

Sunlight and Repurposing Plastic Waste For Industrial Feedstock

dateJuly 17, 2026 author
dateReading Time: 6 minutes
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When people need a reassurance of any sort the person providing it will often tell them that the sun will come up tomorrow. That’s to mean it will be a brand new day, and that means a brand new opportunity and that whatever they’re struggling with will pass. It can also be fairly said that every day the sun will rise in the East and set in the West. These days a lot of people would be happy to have some reassurances about a healthier future for the world they live in and with new technologies there is some reason to have hope about that. When people rent a dumpster in Trenton or Colborne they often have little choice about the waste that needs to go in it, but with Load n’ Lift they can be assured that it will be disposed of properly. That will be true whether it’s a sunny day or not,… Read More

New Process for Building Materials Generated from Sawdust

dateJune 19, 2026 author
dateReading Time: 7 minutes
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Being able to make use of hardwoods for building of all sort has been a huge part of what has allowed humans to develop civilizations. For providing shelter for people it’s fair to say that wood has been absolutely invaluable, and here in Canada the forestry industry is one of the biggest ones because of the demand that comes from that reality and the fact we have huge expanses of forests across the country. Using wood for construction means that it needs to be cut, and in doing so plenty of the fibre becomes sawdust. Our specialty is dumpster rentals for Trenton and Colborne, but like anyone we’ve taken a saw to wood plenty of times before too. The difference is being we never had the scientific slant required to be able to identify that sawdust can actually be repurposed, and that it doesn’t always have to be swept into a pan and poured into… Read More

Global Waste Production Surging and Outpacing Expectations

dateMay 10, 2026 author
dateReading Time: 8 minutes
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The existential realities of the fact that there’s above 8 billion people isn’t lost on most of us, and one of the unavoidable ones of those is that many people is going to mean an awful lot of waste is produced. Individual households can do their best to curtail their production of waste, but in the bigger picture there’s no getting around population growth meaning garbage-production growth. We only touch on that at the smallest of scales a dumpster rental provider for Trenton and Colborne, but even we’ve seen more waste than you’d expect from an average job site. So it’s fairly easy to envision the types of circumstances and challenges faced by global policy makers and the individual representatives from countries that meet to discuss how to best tackle this problem. What we have here is a rubbish removal service for local home and business owners, but for the decision-makers at the big table… Read More

Global Waste Production Levels Increasing Faster Than Expected

dateApril 21, 2026 author
dateReading Time: 7 minutes
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Consumption creates waste, construction creates waste, and even creation creates waste. It’s an unfortunate part of the process a lot of the time and the need to collect, handle, and dispose of waste properly has been a must for civic and municipal administrators for well more than a hundred years now. In fact it probably was an issue for the small towns all across Canada in the earliest part of the 19th century, but not nearly to the same extent. The human population has grown in leaps and bounds since then, and another unavoidable reality is that more people means greater production of household and industrial waste. So it’s not any surprise to learn that waste production worldwide is increasing. That’s not something that can be reduced with any real effectiveness if we continue to surge well past 8 billion people on the planet. Which we are well in the process of doing. So the… Read More

Landfill-Friendly Personal Hygiene Absorbent Developed Right Here in Ontario

dateFebruary 16, 2026 author
dateReading Time: 7 minutes
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Over all of the many years we have been providing dumpster rentals for Trenton and Colborne property owners and contractors / service providers we believe we’ve never seen a diaper in one of our bins. It’s quite possible we missed one but we’re fortunate that for the most part our customers understand what’s acceptable to go into the bins, and what’s not go to into them. For the most part what we collect for folks and then arrange for responsible disposal is building material waste, and the type of waste that is created when properties are demolished or undergo extensive renovations. If you need to rent a disposal bin in either town or in nearby ones like Belleville or Brighton then we’ve always got one or more just a call away. Why Disposable Hygiene Products Are a Growing Landfill Problem The reason we talk about such an odd item to find a dumpster is really… Read More

A Better and More Circular Approach to Product Lifecycles in Canada

dateNovember 21, 2025 author
dateReading Time: 7 minutes
Explore how circular product lifecycles reduce waste, support sustainability in Canada, and help businesses adopt greener, more efficient production models.

Technological advances seen in consumer products over recent decades has meant that people get better functionality and greater value out of the products they buy. But if those products are disposable then the problem that comes along with that is that these products are assembled in a way that makes them both increasingly prone for environmental pollution and much more difficult to have them broken down. The fact that plastic is around for nearly forever and doesn’t break down much if at all over time has been an issue for us for generations, but the matter of dealing with single-use consumer products has grown in scope now. Collectively we need to be better with how we manage the volume of these types of products that are being thrown out by hundreds of thousands of households in Canada every day. And we’re talking about the types of stuff that nearly everyone uses for personal hygiene, as… Read More

Gasification for Recycling of Plastics and Residues from Junked Vehicles

dateSeptember 18, 2025 author
dateReading Time: 7 minutes
Explore how gasification turns plastic waste and junked vehicle residues into clean energy, advancing Canada’s recycling and sustainability goals.

Until teleportation becomes a reality there’s going to be a need for energy and vehicles or other means of transport for people to get around and – more importantly – goods and foodstuffs to be delivered to places where people by them. Delivery trucks are an absolute necessity for all of us, and it’s important that people remember the old adage that ‘if you bought it, a truck brought it.’ But commuter vehicles have importance to people on an individual level too, and nearly all of us have a driver’s license and a personal vehicle for our families. Like any consumer product cars will come to the end of their working lives too, and that’s the case for thousands and thousand of them every year across Canada. We can maybe extend that adage shared above to cover disposal bins, and say if you rent a dumpster in Trenton or Colborne then a truck is going… Read More

Increased Plastic Waste Regulation for Canada’s Construction Industry with New Baseline

dateSeptember 12, 2025 author
dateReading Time: 6 minutes
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Even if you haven’t built anything since you were a child playing with a Lego set you’ll still be able to appreciate that there’s an awful lot that goes into putting up a building. Plus the fact that the bigger they are the more construction waste that is created. Plastic waste is going to be a part of that too, and as is always the case with plastic it’s not broken down very easily if at all and it tends to be very problematic if it’s not channeled properly with waste management. And the issue with a lot of large-scale job sites is the sheer volume of all types of waste that are created. Fortunately most developers are entirely compliant with the regulations for proper waste disposal, and this is something that’s immediately connected to what we do as a dumpster rental provider for Trenton and Colborne here in Ontario. We also adhere to all… Read More

US & Canada Establish New Standard for Reusable Food Container Recycling

dateAugust 13, 2025 author
dateReading Time: 6 minutes
The US and Canada launch a unified standard for reusable food container recycling, aiming to boost sustainability and reduce cross-border waste.

There’s no debating the fact that not nearly enough of the volume of plastic containers that can be recycled are properly handled and then either reused or the plastic is repurposed in some way. Much of that failure falls on the individuals, but a good bit of it can be attributed to insufficient governmental polices over many decades. Fortunately there is positive change occurring on both sides, and collectively as a whole cities and citizens are doing better with plastic recycling. As you’d expect there is still plenty of room for improvement though, and we’re seeing that with a new agreement between Canada and the USA that will improve plastic food container recycling. This is something that is very much needed, and all anyone needs to do to realize the vastness of this issue is to think about how much of our food comes in plastic clamshell packaging at the grocery store. Clamshell packaging is… Read More