As the year wraps up, the Circular Innovation Council team can’t help but feel grateful for all the incredible support and collaboration that’s brought us here. Everything we’ve accomplished this year wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our members and collaborators.
Some things we celebrated this year:
We want to take this moment to share our sincere appreciation. Looking forward to collaborating and advancing our work with all our partners and supporters in 2026!
A message from our Executive Director on our 5 year anniversary
Against a backdrop of rapid population growth, an expanding global middle class, and increasingly scarce natural resources, the traditional linear “take, make, dispose” business model is no longer viable.
HP has adopted a “full circle” approach to its products and services, shifting to selling services rather than products.
Mariane Maltais-Guilbault
Planning Advisor with the City of Montréal’s Environment Department
Lori Koebel
Vice President of Sustainability & Stakeholder Relations at Alberta Beverage Container Recycling Corporation (ABCRC)
Chantal Rousseau
Senior Director of the Reduction, Reuse & Ecocentres Division at Tricentris
Steve Millar
Chief Operating & Sustainability Officer at Goodwill Industries
Danielle Holly
Executive Lead, North America at Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Together, these leaders bring an exceptional breadth of expertise spanning public policy, systems operations, economic development, city planning, and global circular economy leadership. Their collective experience strengthens CIC’s ability to translate circular economy concepts into action—across Canada and on the international stage.
CIC’s Waste Auditor Training Course offers a combination of lectures and workshops offering attendees hands-on experience through case studies, creation of audit plans, and development and application of auditing skills through table-top scenarios and situational exercises.
What’s Included?
Upcoming Course: February 3rd to 6th, 2026
We want to say a big thank you to our new member that joined us in November 2025. Thank you for becoming a part of our fast growing membership here at Circular Innovation Council!
Tricentris has over 25 years of history. It comprises 3 sorting centres, 1 head office, 1 glass micronization plant, and 350 employees. It also includes member municipalities and regional county municipalities (RCMs), serving 2 million citizens. Each year, it sorts and markets approximately 200,000 tonnes of recyclable materials, provides education through various services and awareness activities, manages ecocentres, and funds projects for sustainable communities.
Sustainable Kingston is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 2012. The organization’s purpose is to support the Kingston community in achieving its vision of becoming Canada’s most sustainable city.
Montréal is Québec’s largest city. This urban centre, which is located on an island in the middle of the St. Lawrence Valley, is composed of 19 boroughs. The city offers services across the island of Montréal. Its organizational structure includes political bodies, associate organizations, municipal departments and boroughs. Services to residents are provided by both the city and its boroughs.
Provectus was founded with a vision to tackle one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: food waste. With approximately 40% of post-farm produce never reaching kitchen tables, we recognized the urgent need for a solution that could divert this waste from landfills and transform it into valuable resources.
Peterborough, Ontario, is a vibrant independent city on the Otonabee River, known as the gateway to the Kawartha Lakes, blending urban amenities with stunning nature, arts, culture, and a strong heritage conservation focus.
Evoco is a material innovation company founded to defossilize the global material value chain. Since 2016, we are developing a plant-based technology platform of scalable chemistry and material technologies to help our industry partners detoxify and decarbonize high-performance consumer and industrial products.
Mantle Climate is Canada’s leading climate strategy and risk management consultancy for the built environment. They partner with their clients to align business success with climate leadership —specializing in embodied carbon, life cycle assessment, and climate resilience. Their work helps clients manage risk, lead with impact, and stay ahead in a low-carbon future.
GRT’s plant uses a unique tech stack – from mining, wastewater and other industries – to wash and sort excess soils. They remove the impurities, then treat and recycle their water on site in a closed-loop system.
At Vio, Enzo explores the waste management industry and consults organizations on best practices.
Their motivation is to be the ideal workshop to test your new recipes, produce your classics and create innovative solutions to increase your profitability. Whether you want to create dishes for retail sale or to count on a central kitchen for your establishments, your satisfaction is their priority.
The City of Greater Sudbury is committed to creating an environmentally healthy and sustainable community. They have many programs and services aimed at protecting the environment.
Their commitment to sustainability touches every step of our value chain—from responsible coffee sourcing and the impact on communities, to the recycling of our aluminum capsules and climate change prevention actions.
New Year’s Day
January 1
International Conference on Environment and Climate Change (IECC); Toronto, Ontario
January 4
Texworld; New York, U.S.
January 20-22
We respectfully acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations and we humbly extend our respect to Indigenous individuals, communities and Elders, past and present, as the traditional custodians of this land.
Circular Innovation Council is a registered charity.
Charity Registration Number: 119112118 RR 0001
