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

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

Whether we like or not we live in a consumerist culture and unfortunately a longstanding part of the electronics industry is planned obsolescence and the amount of e-waste that is produced here in North America is nothing short of staggering. There all sorts of negative environmental ramifications that come from this and unfortunately a lot of smartphones that have people are moving on from aren’t processed correctly. And most of the time that’s because they’re not properly disposed of, and you’d be surprised how many of them are just tossed into the trash. Most recycling depots here in Ontario will have the ability to take e-waste, but a lot of people can’t be bothered to make that trip. All of this is really beyond the scope of a dumpster rental service for Trenton and Colborne like the one we have here at Load n’ Lift, and of course we rarely if ever have e-waste in… Read More

Roadways are an essential part of the mobility that we all need to have in both urban and suburban environments, and of course good roads are needed in more rural areas of Ontario too. Roads require upkeep and maintenance once on an ongoing basis once they’re built, as obviously there is a lot of wear and tear on them. There is an ongoing aim to find ways to reduce the frequency and severity of potholes, and there are engineers working on that. On a more positive note there has been real progress with making recycled tires part of that asphalt that goes down on roads. More can be done to increase the sustainability of roadway maintenance and, fortunately, it is being done. Our day to day is all about dumpster rentals for Colborne and Trenton area residents who are renovating properties or have the need to clean up a job site. There can other instances… Read More

There’s no getting around the fact that we need to be using plastics in our world, although there have been positive shifts with consumer product manufacturing and wooden disposal cutlery is a good example of that. We still need to find a fix for the problem of disposable beverage lids, and there are plenty more examples of how single-use disposable plastics continue to be a big problem and that doesn’t even start to touch on the issue of consumer good packaging either. Plastics don’t biodegrade, and everyone knows that. But the real issue is that they do break down into smaller and smaller pieces, and that’s what has us dealing with the problem with microplastics nowadays. Thunder Bay is about as far away in Ontario as possible from us here at Load n’ Lift, and as we’ve said many times it’s dumpster rentals in Trenton and Colborne that we know best. But there are some… Read More

There’s been a lot made of the incredible wastefulness of single-use plastics all over the world, not just here in Canada or in North America. Plastic is utilized for packaging of all sorts. But the problem is that it can’t be easily degraded in the way a cardboard box can be, for example. Plastic is hardy and durable stuff, and that’s why it’s hard to handle it properly when it’s disposed of as waste. Much of it can be recycled, but despite improvements in that regard it’s an area where we are still coming up well short. Very little recyclable plastic if any goes into the roll-off bins we deliver to customers as part of our dumpster rentals for Trenton and Colborne areas of Ontario, but when it does we do make an effort to see to it that it’s channeled properly. Doing that doesn’t mean that it’s going to be processed properly though, and… Read More

Carbon pricing may be a contentious issue in Canada, but most of the controversy around it is related to the price of vehicle fuels. It’s important to understand that carbon pricing applies to much more, and also that these initiatives are very necessary if we are to effectively address and slow the expansion of greenhouse gas emissions on a planet that has way too many people leading a carbon-intensive lifestyle. Here at Load n’ Lift our expertise falls well short of all of this stuff, and while we do dumpster rentals for the Trenton and Colborne areas of Ontario we are always going to have that bigger-picture interest in topics like this that are related better use of resources and recapturing / repurposing them where possible. Or more specifically with the development of technologies that improve the efficiency of those efforts. Parts of the aim with our waste disposal service is to avoid pollution of… Read More