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.
Turtle Island Helps Hospital Divert 18 Tonnes of Waste from Landfill
Turtle Island Recycling is a leading recycling and waste-diversion company because we believe that it is the socially responsible thing to do but also because it saves you money.
We've grown in the last 20 years to become an award-winning environmental leader with more than 450 employees and nine offices across Ontario and Canada.
That's because we're committed to ongoing research and development and finding new ways to improve our recycling processes to divert as much as possible from landfills.
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.
Each year, CKHA uses thousands of polypropylene plastic wraps, which until now had been directed to landfill. The wraps - which do not break down - are used to seal surgical instrument trays and to keep their contents sterile until they are used in Operating Rooms and Emergency Departments.
A waste audit clearly revealed that tons of blue OR wraps were going into the garbage. CKHA wanted to find a way to recycle them and avoid putting them into landfills.
Chatham Kent Health Alliance contacted Turtle Island Recycling for help. Our environmental team worked with the hospital performing 15 months of exhaustive research and planning to find the perfect solution before we officially launched the program earlier this year.
CKHA's Green Team initially researched a Tennessee hospital's wrap recycling program but, unfortunately, the local municipality didn't have the necessary facilities to recycle the instrument tray wraps, which were made of woven fibres.
CKHA presented Turtle Island Recycling with the 'product' and we indeed found a new recyclable market for the material. Samples were tested for the type of material and physical properties. Once these were identified, we used our commodity knowledge to find a home for the once solid waste material.
By placing recycling receptacles in all areas that use instrument trays, hospital staff now disposes of wraps using designated recycling containers, rather than regular garbage receptacles destined for landfill.
The new recycling method is expected to divert as much as 18 tonnes of waste from landfill annually the hospital is already saving a lot of money by not having to pay for dumping all that tonnage.
A collaborative partnership was born between Turtle Island Recycling and the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance and they became one of Canada's first hospitals run such a unique recycling program.
Turtle Island Recycling will always look for ways to divert as much material as possible from the landfill, whether the idea comes from us or our customers. We'd like to see more hospitals across Canada find similar solutions to waste management. Chatham-Kent plans to make this wrap collection program a lifelong commitment.
This program is a perfect example of what caring people and teamwork can accomplish.
Turtle Island Recycling wins 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.
To learn more about Chatham-Kent Health Alliance's efforts to conserve energy, visit the Energy Matters link on their website, www.ckha.on.ca or visit Turtle Island at www.turtleislandrecycling.com.
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