About the company:
BGIS Global Integrated Solutions is a leading provider of integrated facility management services worldwide, managing over 40,000 facilities globally. Committed to sustainability, BGIS implements programs and technologies to help clients reduce waste, water, and energy consumption, driving towards a more sustainable future. They serve a diverse range of sectors including critical environments, healthcare, education, government and public sector, oil, gas, and resources, utilities and infrastructure, retail, media and technology, and financial services.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Circular Procurement
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Busch Systems is dedicated to supporting waste diversion efforts by offering cutting-edge products and services that enhance recycling programs in various industries. With over 35 years of experience, Busch Systems is recognized as a highly-rated brand in the industry. Through initiatives like Project RISE and partnerships with organizations like Plastic Bank, Busch Systems continues to innovate and lead in promoting sustainability and waste reduction.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
At Busch Systems, our commitment to sustainability drives us to prioritize the use of post-consumer recycled materials in manufacturing. By incorporating PCR content, we minimize the production of new plastics, closing the loop on recyclable waste. Through innovative methods, we maintain high-quality standards while actively reducing environmental impact. Our dedication to eco-friendly practices ensures that each container contributes positively to waste management solutions worldwide.
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The Carton Council of Canada (CCC) collaborates with carton manufacturers to advance carton recovery and recycling efforts nationwide. Through financing campaigns and optimizing sorting processes, CCC fosters the sustainability of carton packaging as a renewable and low-carbon solution, promoting its environmental benefits for today and tomorrow.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:Ā
Grow the collection and recycling of food and beverage cartons
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Castle Compost is involved with environmental writing, and designing children’s illustrated adventure books to help teach composting. Additionally, all their books contain post-consumer fibre.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Composting and using all resources wisely
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CD SONTER is a renowned sustainability consulting firm that specializes in partnering with a wide range of properties, including office buildings, retail centers, and educational institutions, to implement effective waste optimization strategies and sustainable practices. With over 30 years of experience, CD SONTER prioritizes client interests, offering independent expertise to navigate environmental regulations.
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Viking Recycling is a firm that specializes in diverting heavy, durable materials like PVC from landfills, keeping millions of lbs of Construction and Demolition (CRD) waste out of landfills. As a verified recycler, they offer sustainable services for architects and designers through their Circular Partners program, supporting projects and communities nationwide.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Reusing, recycling, keeping materials out of landfills through highest and best uses. We have a Zero Landfill Policy, meaning we won’t accept anything we don’t have a solution for. We are also lobbying with the city of Toronto to advance further their sustainability goals by including Construction, Renovation and Demolition materials on their radar when it comes to policy changes and transformation.
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Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Education and Promotion of the 3R’s
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The City of Pickering oversees various sustainable initiatives in Pickering, Ontario. This includes their Community Climate Adaptation Plan, developing Integrated Sustainable Design Standards, and their Backyard Tree Planting Program.
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The City of Richmond is committed to environmental sustainability through its Circular City Strategy, aiming to achieve a 100% circular economy by 2050. This strategy emphasizes responsible consumption, waste minimization, and resource optimization, exemplified by innovative projects like the Recycled Asphalt Pavement pilot diverting tonnes of asphalt from landfills and promoting circularity in infrastructure development.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
The City of Richmondās vision for circular economy is to maximize the value of resources, by design, through responsible consumption, minimizing waste and reimagining how resources flow in a sustainable, equitable, low-carbon economy.
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The City of Windsor is dedicated to fostering Windsor’s development through various sustainable initiatives, including through actions that contribute to its transition to a circular economy framework.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Continuing to move the City of Windsor towards a circular economy.
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Coast Waste Management Association (CWMA) is a membership association serving the solid waste industry across British Columbia and beyond, comprising over 200 member organizations and 1000 individual participants. CWMA facilitates discussions, networking, and learning opportunities to address the challenges and opportunities of solid waste management, fostering environmental leadership and best practices among its members.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Finding best practices to bring awareness and ideas to the industry
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Corbec Inc. was founded in 1965 and stands as a premier galvanizing provider, delivering high-quality services to the construction industry. With four facilities spread across Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime provinces, Corbec emphasizes environmental stewardship by aiming for low carbon footprint in the construction solutions they provide.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Solutions in design and construction with lowest carbon footprint for the full life cycle.
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The County of Wellington, situated in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, is an integral part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe region. With a focus on sustainability, the county oversees various initiatives and activities aimed at promoting environmental responsibility and community well-being in Wellington and its surrounding areas.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
The County gained experience in building a circular economy of food during the partnered Our Food Future project. Our staff continue to use their expertise in areas of solid waste services, procurement, agricultural support, and economic development to support circularity in our community. Our municipal climate change plan sets the targets which underscores all of this work.
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CSA Group is a global organization specializing in Standards Development and Testing, Inspection, and Certification services worldwide. They enhance safety, social good, and sustainability through the advancement of standards and expert testing across various industries and markets.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Standards Development
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Dreams Jumper is a firm that focuses on recycling textiles and sells sustainable bedding and bathing items. They also receive new and worn textiles such as clothing items from customers so that they may recycle the linen, which supports a circular economy model within the fashion industry.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Our priorities in the circular economy include actively fostering circularity within the fashion industry, educating individuals on the principles of circular economy specific to fashion, and working towards the elimination of textile waste.
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Earthware specializes in providing reusable containers and sustainable food packaging solutions for both food providers and consumers, and they have also collaborated with some restaurants to combat single-use packaging waste that often ends up in landfills. Their initiatives promote environmental sustainability by offering reusable alternatives to traditional disposable packaging.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Reduce waste produced by 450 million single-use takeout containers, both plastic and compostable, that end up in landfills in Alberta every year by providing a reusable container solution for restaurant takeout and delivery.
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EcoSchools Canada is the Canadian National Operator of the international EcoSchools program under the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), and it aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Being part of a global network of other 74 national EcoSchools programs, EcoSchools Canada contributes to a worldwide community fostering environmental education and sustainable practices in schools.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Education and Awareness, curriculum-linked content development
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EcoWool Canada is dedicated to sustainability, upcycling wool and fiber waste into valuable products while supporting farmers. Through the conversion of organic materials, they strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and foster a thriving circular economy. Additionally, EcoWool offers ecowool pellets and conducts workshops for fiber education, contributing to waste diversion efforts and promoting environmental consciousness.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Utilizing waste, reducing chemical use, increasing carbon sequestration through natural means, improving soil, and sustainable rural development
About the company:
EFS Plastics was founded in 2007 and has emerged as a prominent player in the plastics recycling sector, focusing on PET, HDPE, LDPE, and PP resin recycling. With strategically positioned facilities across North America, EFS Plastics diverts millions of pounds of plastics from landfills annually, preserving resources and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Their custom compounding process ensures the production of high-quality recycled resins, tailored to meet the diverse requirements of customers, fostering a circular economy and sustainable practices.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Receiving post consumer plastic scrap for processing, and offering high quality post consumer resins for product and packaging manufacturers, PCR production
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Emterra Group is an international enterprise that specializes in designing and implementing cost-effective recycling and waste reduction programs and advisory services. They transform waste into resources, operating across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Michigan, while leading by example to promote zero waste goals.
Priorities in the Circular Economy:
Resource recovery, waste reduction, material quality, and innovation and technology.
Circular Innovation Council is a registered charity.
Charity Registration Number: 119112118 RR 0001