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Keep up-to-date on this section as Partners in Project Green gathers all of the information you require to green your bottom line, develop new business opportunities, and address everyday operational challenges in a green and cost-effective manner.

Tools available to businesses in this section include:

  • Best Practices Database - an inventory of environmental projects being undertaken by businesses in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone.
  • Financial Assistance Database - a searchable database of financial assistance to assist your companies looking to green their bottom line.
  • Online Tools - a collection of online tools to assist your company in improving its financial and environmental performance (in development).
  • Green Business Directory - a database of companies offering green products and services in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone.
  • Discussion Board - a place to share ideas, ask questions and learn about green technologies from other local businesses.

 
 

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Green Spotlight:

Unilever Rexdale

Unilever Canada’s margarine plant in Rexdale has been reducing its production costs through a wide array of energy conservation initiatives since 1999, including the following initiatives:

Employee Energy Efficiency Education & Incentives: The plant’s energy team, the Watt Watchers, has made energy conservation second nature to the plant’s 175 personnel. Energy boards posted throughout the plant offer employees a way to make suggestions and monitor the results of their energy saving ideas.

Innovation: Two of the more innovative projects at the plant include using waste oil and margarine as fuel for boilers and a water-treatment process that reduces water use and reclaims heat.

Cumulative energy cost savings since 1999 have been greater than $3.5 million with an average payback period of six months for each of its conservation projects.