GFL Buys Turtle Island Recycling

Green for Life (GFL) Environmental Corp. and Turtle Island Recycling (TIR) Corp. have just joined forces, transforming GFL into southern Ontario's largest waste management company

Diversion Partnership

The Delta Chelsea Hotel in downtown Toronto and Turtle Island Recycling Corp., have now exceeded both hospitality industry standards and municipal targets for landfill diversion.

Building Owner Savings

Toronto's Waste Management Levy became effective immediately, which means thousands of dollars out of your pocket if you're a landlord or multi-tenant building owner in Toronto. Find out how Turtle Island can save you thousands

BOMA Sweep

This was an unprecedented year for Turtle Island Recycling's partner, Northam Realty Advisors, at the 2011 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of the Greater Toronto Area awards.

Art and Recycling

Art critics may say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but in the real world, beauty is in the eye of the pioneer - the visionary - who seems to see what the rest of us miss.

Recycling Soap Saves Lives

Did you know that 9,000 children die each day from preventable diseases that are completely avoidable, simply by washing regularly with a bar of soap?

Stepping Up

If you think stepping up for the environment is easy, then try tackling 1,776 stairway steps straight up to the top of one of the world's tallest freestanding structures.

Hospital Diversion

Turtle Island Recycling is pleased to announce a new groundbreaking partnership with Ontario's Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) to recycle instrument tray wraps - the first of its kind in Canada.

Northam Sweeps 2011 BOMA Awards
Turtle Island Partner Recognized for Environmental Excellence

This was an unprecedented year for Turtle Island Recycling's partner, Northam Realty Advisors, at the 2011 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of the Greater Toronto Area awards.

Northam's buildings - 2 Carlton, 2180 Yonge Street, and 483 Bay Street - didn't just win BOMA Awards this year - they literally swept the awards, once again raising raise the bar on environmental excellence in the commercial real estate industry.

BOMA celebrated building and management excellence at its 13th annual Celebration of Excellence dinner April 27, 2011, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

About 500 real estate professionals showed up to recognize their peers at what is considered the commercial real estate event of the year. The awards program consists of the following categories:

Certificate of Building & Management Excellence (recognizes quality in buildings and their management teams)
Buildings of the Year Award
Earth Award (recognizes the ultimate in environmental management)
Pinnacle Award (recognizes excellence in two categories this year: Above & Beyond and Innovation

Northam Realty virtually swept the awards, winning a total of 10 prizes among the three GTA buildings entered: 2 Carlton, 2180 Yonge and 483 Bay Street.

All Northams's buildings received Building and Management Excellence Awards in their respective categories.

Four buildings received BOMA BESt (formally Go Green) Awards. One building received the top environmental award in Ontario - the Earth Award. Two buildings received the Building of the Year Award.

Here is a breakdown on each award as presented to each winning Northam Realty building:

In 2009, Bell Trinity Square - as a partner with Turtle Island Recycling - was also awarded LEED EB Gold Certification, making it the first office building in Toronto with this qualification. LEED is a third-party certification program which outlines unusually high standards for management systems and procedures. It is an internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings and homes and recognizes environmental responsibility in such areas as energy use, recycling, water and air quality.

As a long-time environmental partner with Northam Realty, Turtle Island Recycling looks forward to many more years as its premier waste management and recycling services provider.

BOMA Building and Management Award of Excellence	BOMA BESt Awards (Environmental Certification Program)
2 Carlton Street Canada Square - 2180 Yonge Street 483 Bay Street	(1 lowest - 4 highest) 2180 Yonge St. Level 2 2190 Yonge St. Level 3 2200 Yonge St. Level 3 483 Bay Street Level 4
The Earth Award (Environmental Building of the Year in Ontario)	TOBY Awards (Outstanding Building of the Year in Ontario)
As winner of The Earth Award - Ontario's most prestigious and comprehensive environmental award - 483 Bay Street (500,000 sq. ft. - 1,000,000 sq. ft.) is now invited to compete nationally in Newfoundland in September 2011.	Northam surpassed all other management companies by winning in two of the five TOBY categories. This means that 2180 Yonge (250,000 sq. ft. - 499,999 sq.ft.) and Bell Trinity Square (500,000 sq. ft. - 1,000,000 sq. ft.) also qualify to compete at the national competition in Newfoundland in September 2011.

Dedicated to Helping Business
Turtle Island Recycling helps win awards simply because we've made a serious commitment to the environment and, for us, recycling isn't just our business: it's our way of life.