HOW TO IMPLEMENT WASTE REDUCTION INITIATIVES TO CREATE A GREENER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE WORKPLACE

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Why should you reduce, reuse and recycle?  Recycling helps to prevent environmental degradation  Recycling is good for the economy  Implementing waste reduction initiatives creates a greener and more sustainable organization – it is being responsible and it will give your organization a positive image  Recycling puts existing resources back in the loop!  It’s the law

Waste Audits  Ontario Regulation 102/94 Waste Audit & Waste Reduction Work Plan  Ontario Regulation 103/94 Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Source Separation Programs

Who is required to complete a Waste Audit? Large Manufacturing Establishments  If persons employed at the site work in excess of 16,000 hours in any one calendar month during the preceding two calendar years. Retail Shopping Establishments  If the retail establishment occupies premises with a total floor area of at least 10,000 square meters; or  If the retail establishment, regardless of its size, occupies premises in a retail Shipping complex and the owner of the retail shopping establishment is solely Responsible for the establishment’s waste management Retail Shopping Complexes  If the complex has a total floor area of at least 10,000 square meters and is occupied by establishments that sell goods or services at retail to persons that come to the establishments Educational Institutions  If the location or campus has more than 350 full or part-time persons enrolled during the calendar year.

Who is required to complete a Waste Audit con’t… Office Buildings  The owner of a building or a “group of buildings” that have a total floor area of at least 10,000 square meters for use as offices Restaurants  The owner of a “restaurant”, including a “take-out restaurant”, if the gross sales for all restaurants operated by the owner in Ontario were $3 million or more in any of the two preceding calendar years. Hotels and Motels  The owner of a “hotel or motel” that has more than 75 units Hospitals  General hospitals with teaching facilities for university medical students  General hospitals having at least 100 beds  Hospitals for chronic patients and having at least 200 beds

How we can help your company to reduce waste! HaulersProcessors End Sites  Who makes up the waste management and recycling industry?

How we can help your company to reduce waste!  Where does Waste Reduction Group Inc. fit into all of this?  Waste Reduction Group Inc. is a management company that has been around for 10 years, the company’s principle and associates have a combined experience of over 40 years in the environmental industry.  Waste Reduction Group Inc. is at the 1 st step in the chain – the retail storefront of waste reduction and recycling  We bring a variety of services all under one roof!  Our objective is to find out what you need and figure out how to achieve what you want; with our management set-up we can closely manage our suppliers and coordinate service for you

How we can help your company to reduce waste!  Consulting  Products  Services Waste Audits Stewardship Ontario General Waste Management Consulting Waste Management Strategies Bid Preparation Traditional Recycling and Disposal Services Specialized Recycling and Disposal Services

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