Press Release
Retail Commodity Survey, January 2024
Retail sales reached $56.3 billion in January, an increase of 2.5% compared with the same month one year earlier. Higher sales were reported in 11 of the 18 commodity classes.
Biennial Waste Management Survey: Waste Diversion, 2022
Canadian households and businesses diverted almost 10 million tonnes of waste from landfills in 2022, unchanged compared with 2020. Instead of being buried, diverted material finds a second life through recycling or composting.
Environmental protection expenditures by businesses, 2021
Canadian businesses spent $26.6 billion to protect the environment in 2021, an increase of 16.3% from 2020. Businesses allocated three-fifths (60.2%) of these expenditures to resource management activities, while the remaining expenditures (39.8%) were devoted to environmental protection activities. In four years, the share of resource management expenditures increased from 51.0% in 2018 to 60.2% in 2021.
Physical flow account for greenhouse gas emissions, by gas type, 2018 to 2021
Data from the physical flow account for greenhouse gas emissions for industries and households are now available upon request by gas type for reference years 2018 to 2021. Gas types included are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), in CO2 equivalents.
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