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A few words from the Mission Statement of the Recycling Council of Ontario: The Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization involved in policy, education and project work around the issues of consumption, waste generation, reduction and diversion, and recycling. The RCO believes that society must minimize its impact on the environment [...]

There has been a lot of social and political pressure for fair trade products including coffee, chocolate and diamonds.  I think we all feel a responsibility to support products that have been placed into the market place using safe and ethical practices and without abuse of child labour laws.  The fact is that mined gold [...]

Beware of Greenwashing in the gold business… Greenwashing is the practice by any business, in any industry, of dressing up in an “environmentally friendly” image when the reality is that their business is no more environmentally responsible than any other business. In the gold business there are companies that present an image that they are [...]