Canada´s Exhibition Place Wins Gold Waste Minimization Awards


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On October 18, 2007 The Recycling Council of Ontario held the 2007 Ontario Waste Minimization Awards, and honoured City of Toronto’s Exhibition Place with a Gold Facility Management Award, which recognizes buildings that showcase an internal waste minimization program.

 

The Recycling Council of Ontario’s 24-year tradition honours those who demonstrate excellence and leadership in the creation of waste reduction/diversion initiatives.

 

The Awards are integrated into the celebration of Waste Reduction Week in Canada (WRW), when communities across the country are encouraged to promote the 3R’s principles and help others understand and adopt the benefits of waste free living.

 

The Waste Minimization Awards recognize provincial waste diversion champions in business, municipalities, institutions, education, not-for-profit, the media, as well as individuals.

 

As part of the 2004 Development Concept Plan, the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place initiated an Environmental Plan.

 

Guiding principles fundamental to the Environmental Plan include the promotion of sustainable development, environmental initiatives and leading edge green technologies and practices across the 192-acre site. Partnerships between Exhibition Place, the City of Toronto and other levels of government, not-for-profit climate change organizations, and the private sector have been instrumental to the achievement of the Environmental Plan.

 

Exhibition Place is committed to be a world leader in energy-efficient technologies. Some of our environmental initiatives include: a goal of energy self-sufficiency by 2010; waste-diversion recycling, and composting programs rendering the site 80% waste-free by 2010; a wind turbine producing 1.2 million kilowatt hours of energy annually; hydrogen fuel-cells to power utility vehicles; an urban forestry program including lake-water irrigation of the site; venue naming rights for Direct Energy Centre with fees earmarked for energy conservation projects, our tri-generation program using a natural gas-fired generator to produce an estimated 12.0 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
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