RESOURCES AND TOOLS

FEATURED RESOURCES:
Greening your business: Report on Business & the Environment: Manufacturing 2011
Report on Business and the Environment: Manufacturing 2011
This report, created through a partnership between RBC & CME, urges leaders of manufacturing companies to consider the business risks and opportunities embedded within the environmental sustainability challenge and to take action. Advantages of becoming a cleaner, greener manufacturer include new market opportunities, lower costs and reduced risks. The report also highlights the top sustainability challenges for manufacturers and showcases examples from other companies leading the way.
Business Value of Toxics Reduction and Pollution Prevention Planning
Business Value of Toxics Reduction and Pollution Prevention Planning
BLOOM's experience shows that companies need a mix of strategies to make a business case to implement pollution prevention and sustainability measures. This report includes an analysis of the business value of pollution prevention planning and toxics use reduction for 63 BLOOM clients, based on environmental performance improvements and the financial metrics of cost avoidance, business risk reduction and competitive advantage.
Cleaner and Greener Manufacturing
Web Portal
Cleaner and Greener Manufacturing Web Portal
This resource developed by CME and BLOOM is a one-window information-sharing web portal, where companies can download toxics reduction resources, share toxics use reduction experiences, and use web-based software to develop their toxics reduction plan consistent with Ontario's Toxics Reduction Act, 2009.













 

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P2 TOOLS:


TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE and INCENTIVE-BASED PROGRAMS:

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PUBLICATIONS:

The Bloom Centre for Sustainability has an article published in Journal of Cleaner Production Vol 14, No 6-7, 2006 on the adoption of P2 practices by SMEs in the Greater Toronto Area.
 
Download our version of the PDF here.
 
Please note that single copies of the article can be downloaded and printed only for the reader's personal research and study.


REGULATORY PROVISIONS:


Below are links that emphasize and help define
the concept of Pollution Prevention by industry sector:


Autobody:


Automotive:


Metal Finishing:


Printing:


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