Safety-Kleen Canada launches program in Quebec.Safety-Kleen Canada has launched a used oil recovery program in Quebec. The company says it guarantees to recycle used motor and lubricating oils it collects in the province to prevent them from being burned in facilities and polluting pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. the air. Used oil collected in Quebec is re-refined at Safety-Kleen's facility in Breslau, Ontario Breslau is a community located within the township of Woolwich, part of the Waterloo Regional Municipality in Ontario Canada. Separated from the city of Kitchener by the Grand River, Breslau is named after the former Prussian city of Breslau, now capital of Poland's Lower Silesia. , and returned for re-sale in Quebec. Under the recovery and recycling program, any Safety-Kleen Performance Plus lubricating oil customer that designates Safety-Kleen as its collector for used oil and used oil containers will not be charged any environmental charges, fees or levies on its purchases of oil and oil containers, and Safety-Kleen will pick up the used oil and used oil containers for free. "There are no up-front fees or back-end charges," Pierre Gendron Pierre Raoul Gendron CC (1916 – February 16, 1984) was a Canadian academic who was the first dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Ottawa from 1953 until 1962. In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Safety-Kleen says its used oil recycling program is an environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] alternative to a used oil collection and burning program designed by the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI CPPI Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance CPPI Canadian Petroleum Products Institute CPPI Commission for Patient and Public Involvement (UK) CPPI Church Planting Progress Indicators CPPI Crystal Preparation Prime Item ) and recently proposed by Recyc-Quebec, a Quebec government agency, and Societe de Gestion des Huiles Usagees (SOGHU), a group of large lubricating oil brand-owners, including major members of CPPI. If this program is implemented in Quebec, Safety-Kleen is concerned that it will lose its supply of used oil to those who would burn it. "Quebec produces used oil that can be recycled back into high-quality oil, comparable in quality and performance to new oil," Gendronsays. "The SOGHU program encourages the burning of used oil as a one-time fuel, and that oil then has to be replaced. The choice for consumers and the environment is clear--reuse and recycling or pollution and continued dependence on imported oil." Gendron says that Safety-Kleen has filed a legal challenge to the SOGHU program, alleging that it is inconsistent with the government of Quebec's waste reduction policies, which promote the reuse and recycling of resources. He says the SOGHU program also ignores a Supreme Court of Canada The Supreme Court of Canada (French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian justice system.[1] ruling about environmental measures anticipating, preventing and attacking causes of environmental degradation Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. . |
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