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Product Stewardship – Completing The Circle of Responsibility
Product Stewardship – Completing The Circle of Responsibility One of the things that have become extremely important whenever we talk about the current state of the world is the need for companies to start taking more responsibility for their actions regarding the...
Why ‘Global Recycling Day’ Should Be Every Day Of The Year
At Peel Scrap, our family has been in the recycling business for more than 100 years now. We’re not sure about the exact quantity of metals we have managed to keep in circulation over that period, but it’s safe to say it’s in the millions of tons. One of the tenets of...
A Post About Mercury…And Good Dental Hygiene
A Post About Mercury…And Good Dental Hygiene After so many years in the scrap metal recycling business, we are bound to have had at least a few unusual calls along the way. In fact, we have a number of stories that could very well be the subject of some blogs down the...
Good Communication Is The Key To Successful Relationships
Good Communication Is The Key To Successful Relationships In today’s world, we are losing the ability Good Communication face-to-face to solve our problems. People text, tweet, Twitter, etc. and as a result, there is seldom, if ever, anyone to tell you to your face...
The Only Resource On The Planet That Is Not In Decline
The Only Resource On The Planet That Is Not In Decline If you haven’t figured this out, there is no need to be embarrassed. The answer is not a word that we would commonly put in the same sentence as “resource.” Resources have a special place in our ecological word...
The Dvorkin Family –– A Century In Scrap Metal
The Dvorkin Family –– A Century In Scrap Metal The history of our family in the Scrap Metal Industry begins with my Grandfather, David Dvorkin, who arrived in Calgary from Russia in 1912. In 1918 he started Western Hide & Fur and his children arrived in Calgary in...
Sustainability – The New Mother of Innovation
Sustainability – The New Mother of Innovation Writers commonly suffer from a condition that is often referred to as “writer’s block”. According to Wikipedia, this is a condition in which the author loses the ability to produce new work. We find the same type of thing...
Recycling…It’s Not the Oldest Profession, But It’s Certainly Right Up There
A brief look at recycling through the ages.