Our Partners

Since 1964, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has been training the experts, innovators, and professionals who shape our economy – across BC and around the world, with five campuses and over 50,000 students enrolled each year. Through its unique applied education model, students gain the hands-on technical skills, real-world experience, and problem-solving ability needed to embrace complexity and lead innovation in a rapidly changing workforce – including for the emerging circular economy.

Canadian Tire Corporation is committed to operating as a sustainable Canadian brand. We recognize that climate change poses a serious risk to the health of our planet and, as a Company, we have made it a top priority to be more energy efficient, use fewer resources, produce less waste, and provide our customers with more options to reduce their own impact on the environment. As one of Canada’s most trusted brands, our sustainability strategy focuses on innovations throughout our business that create positive environmental and social outcomes for Canadians while delivering productivity gains and economic benefits.

Nearly 60 years ago, Cascades became a pioneer in the circular economy by making products from recycled materials. This logic continues to underpin its business model today – Cascades supports the circular economy by offering eco-designed products that are recyclable or compostable for which inputs are sourced responsibly.

1.5 million tonnes of material recovered by its recovery division in 2020
2.2 million tonnes of recycled fibre used in Cascades products in North America in 2020
13,112 tonnes of recycled plastics used in Cascades food packaging in 2020

CDETNO is a non-profit organization that promotes, stimulates, and supports the economic development and employability of Francophones and Francophiles of Northwest Territories. Together with their partners, CDETNO develops services and tools to support all Northerners. CDETNO recognizes that minimizing economic leakage creates greater diversity and prosperity. Thus, it is leading the pilot of a new network of NWT organizations, called “Circular Economy North”, to increase collaboration among local businesses and accelerate circular economy activities.

CIBC is making investments to create positive change for their team, clients, communities, and our planet, and contributing to a more secure, equitable and sustainable future where everyone’s ambitions are made real. CIBC’s environmental, social and governance commitments are focused on accelerating climate action, creating access to opportunities, and building integrity and trust. This includes CIBC’s goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operational and financing activities by 2050.

Coast Waste Management Association is a highly regarded non-profit membership association serving the solid waste industry in coastal British Columbia and beyond. With over 160 organizations as members comprising an active network of over 780 individuals, we connect at all levels of an organization and across the industry. For over 25 years, CWMA has provided forums for growing networks, connecting, knowledge sharing, and supporting our members to help cultivate best practices.

The GI Hub is a not-for-profit organization, formed by the G20, that advances the delivery of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive infrastructure. We create data-driven resources that help decision-makers, policymakers, and practitioners create positive impacts through infrastructure. In 2021 the G20 welcomed our circular economy roadmap, which provides high-level guidance on transitioning infrastructure towards a circular economy. We are now continuing this work by defining innovative circular economy practices under the roadmap’s transition pathways.

GS1 Canada is a member organization (MO) of GS1 Global. As a trusted, strategic industry partner, GS1 Canada works to identify and address common business issues to enable best-in-class supply chain, enabling organizations of all sizes to meet Canadian trading partner and regulatory requirements. GS1 Canada is a global leader in data quality, providing a primary source of truth for the highest quality, perpetually cleansed and updated bilingual product content for Canadian industry.

Lambton College is a nationally recognized research college with six established research centres focused on collaborative research in biotechnology, materials, information technology, manufacturing, energy, and water. In 2022, Lambton established the Lambton Circular Economy Innovation Platform (LCEIP) to enhance existing research centres and groups by increasing access to resources and capacity to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations focuses on the Circular Economy.

The Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) is a multi-disciplinary, interdepartmental research hub at the University of British Columbia (UBC) fostering collaboration between local, national and international R&D sectors to create new opportunities for multidisciplinary research in related emerging areas through shared knowledge and network-based funding. MMRI works extensively with partners in the circular economy space, including providing seed funding for feasibility studies to SMEs via NRC-IRAP, knowledge dissemination activities, networking and partnership building, among other value-adding initiatives.

The W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology within McMaster University’s Faculty of Engineering is dedicated to student-centred experiential learning through flexible, adaptable and innovative programs and teaching using state of the art resources and facilities. Our learning environment emphasizes hands-on education and transferable skills to produce engaged graduates ready to serve a diverse community and societal needs. In 2019, the W Booth School launched a professional certificate course in Circular Economy and is expanding on this with a graduate level course in the Winter of 2023.

At National Bank, we exist to have a POSITIVE IMPACT in people’s lives, by building long-term relationships with our clients, employees and communities. Supporting sustainable development is part of our mission and we believe the business community has a key role to play in building the world of tomorrow. We’re powered by the energy, ideas and passion of our many change partners, and we appreciate the opportunity to make a difference, including in finding ways to support the transition to a circular economy.

Initiated in 2008 by the Toronto Pearson, and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), Partners in Project (PPG) is a member-based program partnering with businesses and our municipalities to collectively advance social and environmental sustainability across the Greater Toronto Area. PPG’s Circular Economy Leaders Consortium, in partnership with TELUS, aims to support businesses in reaching their facility waste reduction and diversion goals and advancing circularity and climate action across the business community.

Passive House Canada is a national non-profit professional association that advocates for and educates on the Passive House high-performance building standard that sharply reduces greenhouse gas emissions and provides resilient structures that can withstand extreme weather related to climate change. Their mission is to make the International Passive House standard of building performance understood, achievable, and adopted by government, industry, professionals, and the public across Canada through education, advocacy, events, and building projects.

Scotiabank is a leading bank in Canada and a leading financial services provider in the Americas. We are guided by our purpose: for every future. A better tomorrow – where our customers, employees and communities all thrive – benefits everyone, including our Bank. Our diversified geographic footprint, varied business lines, and large customer and employee base give us a responsibility and an opportunity: we can help address important social, environmental, and economic challenges while positioning our Bank for success.

ShareWares is an impact-driven business based in Vancouver that supplies and sanitizes reusable containers for events, cafés, restaurants, and other food and beverage businesses. ShareWares offers a suite of complementary and a la carte products and services, including an advanced washing service for reusable containers, a supporting app for businesses and customers to easily adopt reusables, and product development consulting to assist businesses in transitioning to reusable products and packaging.

Toy Share Experience provides toy rental service in the Metro Vancouver area allowing parents to choose toys from a catalogue on our website and rent them for a day, week, or month. We also offer monthly subscription plans. The toys available are for toddlers and preschoolers. We follow strict sanitizing protocols to ensure the access is safe. We firmly believe that our children’s relationships with toys need to be modified, going from the present consumerist model of toy overconsumption and accumulation to a more balanced one that benefits the environment, creating a truly circular economy.

Unwrapit is a relationship-building platform for forward-thinking people. We enable businesses and event professionals to give low/no waste, sustainably-minded gifts at any scale to gift recipients who unwrap and claim their choice of a gift within our customizable virtual platform. We have designed the waste and pollution out of corporate gifting by giving businesses the opportunity to send non-physical gifts in a personalized way without requiring a major shift in business operations.