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10 Strategies Guidebook can help you identify some of the more likely places you can start improving your business eco-efficiency. Each strategy identifies what you could do if you were to do just one thing.

Sustainable Purchasing Guide provides a framework for purchasing products and services with characteristics that make them environmentally and socially beneficial.

Sustainable Supply Chain Logistics Guide focuses on minimizing the impacts of planning, storage, transportation, and logistics involved in getting goods and services to the right place, at the right time.

Product & Service Directory provides objective, consistent information that allows users to systematically compare the environmental merits of locally available products and services.

 Product & Service Directory

Business Case Total Cost Assessment  offers a sophisticated Business Case Total Cost Assessment Web application to assist businesses evaluate the Net Present Value and Return on Investment of their eco-efficiency activities.

 Business Case TCA

Water Audit provides a sample water audit template for businesses wanting to take that first step towards making their organization water efficient. Once an audit has been completed, a program of measures or actions should be designed.

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Are you looking for opportunities to reduce waste generation and enhance recycling in the workplace?
A first step will be to conduct a waste assessment to view what is routinely "thrown out", combined with a review of existing recycling and waste diversion practices.

   Waste Prevention
+ Improved Recycling
= Waste Reduction


Contact a Business Advisor to arrange a no-cost waste assessment.

The process is simple:

  • register via e-mail or phone
  • advance contact for general operational information
  • schedule waste assessment with key contact
  • 1-3 hour on-site meeting and walk-through
  • follow-up summary report
  • assistance with recommendations 

e-mail e-mail
phone number 604-451-6575

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Fast Facts

What most people see in their garbage cans is just the tip of the material iceberg; the product itself contains on average only 5% of the raw materials involved in the process of making and delivering it. William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, 2003.