HOW TO
IMPLEMENT
WASTE REDUCTION
INITIATIVES
TO CREATE A
GREENER AND
MORE SUSTAINABLE
WORKPLACE
Members of
Waste Reduction Group
Inc.
A Little Bit About Me…
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!
Who makes up the waste management and recycling industry?
Haulers
Processors
End Sites
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 1st 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
•Traditional Recycling and
Disposal Services
•Waste Audits
•Stewardship Ontario
•General Waste
Management Consulting
•Waste Management
Strategies
•Bid Preparation
•Specialized Recycling
and Disposal Services
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