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The information that emerges about circular economy is often fragmented by types of strategies, regions, people involved and sectors of activity. For a real change in the economic model to take place, it seemed essential to create a convergence forum for the exchange of information. Therefore, Québec Circulaire's mission is to bring together the variety of initiatives, tools, and expertise related to circular economy in Québec that are currently dispersed and will be multiplying in the coming years. \n\nHaving begun its transition to circular economy in 2014, Québec serves as a pioneer in North America. 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The next steps will be held in November and December 2022, consisting of defining the vision to be integrated into the first roadmap, the establishment of roles and budget, and getting the guidelines validated by the city council. Following these steps, the writing of the roadmap will be able to start in December 2022.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The 2023-2030 Residual Materials Management project plans to invest $211,000 over the next seven years in human resources and professional fees to support the deployment of the circular economy.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>As critical economic and industrial hubs that are home to over 50 percent of the global population, cities drive 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, 80% of global GDP is generated in cities and ⅔ of global energy is used in cities. 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The theme of governance was chosen to explore in more detail the actions that the city could consider to support in an effective way the transition to an economy affecting different sectors.\u003C/p>",[285],{"name":286,"type":153,"value":286},"https://www.quebeccirculaire.org/initiative/h/une-premiere-feuille-de-route-en-economie-circulaire-pour-la-ville-de-sherbrooke.html",{"id":288,"type":196,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":289,"updated_at":290,"owner_id":232,"owner_relationship":117,"views":108,"owner":291,"image":292,"article_locations":296,"article_industries":301,"view_count":108,"like_count":109,"collection_count":141,"content":306},"18362","2022-08-03T15:41:34.622Z","2026-05-31T09:22:51.266Z",{"id":232,"type":120,"owner_id":232,"about":16,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":16,"organisation":16},{"id":293,"link":294,"alt":16,"source":16,"created_at":289,"updated_at":295,"article_id":288,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"FJMB4bDY7gc=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778088581405-LsCJKJFc.jpeg","2023-04-14T16:36:29.688Z",[297],{"article_id":288,"location_id":298,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"location":299},"6050610",{"id":298,"type":130,"name":300,"color":16,"parent_location_id":132,"created_at":133,"updated_at":16},"Laval",[302,304],{"article_id":288,"industry_id":210,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":303},{"id":210,"name":212,"description":213,"sector":214},{"article_id":288,"industry_id":216,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":305},{"id":216,"name":218,"description":219,"sector":214},{"id":307,"score":109,"body":308,"status":156,"article_id":288,"created_at":289,"updated_at":295,"published_at":289},"RGH4",{"title":309,"outcome":310,"problem":311,"summary":312,"solution":313,"attachment":314},"Giving a last chance to discarded food resources","\u003Cp>Such a project allows producers to generate income by providing another way out to their surpluses, professionals to have access to fresh products at reduced prices and also, for food security organisations to benefit from fresher food at low prices or through donations for people facing food insecurity issues. In addition, restaurants and grocery stores can buy local products that have reached maturity or are not calibrated, at a competitive price to process them. Overall, it provides societal and environmental as surpluses are being enhanced through the work of restorers and processors, with the ultimate goal to reduce food waste.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Food losses are estimated at 2.2 million tonnes per year in Canada. Laval farmers are no exception. Hunger has never been so present in Laval towns and countryside. The increase in the price of food increases inequalities even further and accentuates the urgency of acting to feed individuals with fresh, healthy and nutritious products.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>A local food network can tackle the food waste challenge while providing a wide range of environmental, social and economic benefits.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Thus, le Conseil régional pour l'environnement has been implementing the 'Last Chance Operation' project, with the aim of helping local producers to sell or donate their agricultural surplus in a local food network. The producers have access to a network of more than 600 restaurants and grocery stores, and 150 community organizations in Quebec. Direct access to more than 1,000 organizations and professionals aims to create reciprocal opportunities. By creating stronger links between producers and professional markets, the pilot project aims to disseminate information more directly between supply and demand for fresh food.\u003C/p>",[315],{"name":316,"type":153,"value":316},"https://www.quebeccirculaire.org/initiative/h/operation-derniere-chance.html",{"id":318,"type":113,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":319,"updated_at":320,"owner_id":232,"owner_relationship":117,"views":321,"owner":322,"image":323,"article_locations":327,"article_industries":330,"view_count":321,"like_count":109,"collection_count":141,"content":338},"18361","2022-08-03T15:14:44.708Z","2026-05-31T05:45:07.102Z",7,{"id":232,"type":120,"owner_id":232,"about":16,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":16,"organisation":16},{"id":324,"link":325,"alt":16,"source":16,"created_at":319,"updated_at":326,"article_id":318,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"nEHBbYItFjw=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778088580823-NScAnmi7.jpeg","2023-04-13T15:51:00.354Z",[328],{"article_id":318,"location_id":127,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"location":329},{"id":127,"type":130,"name":131,"color":16,"parent_location_id":132,"created_at":133,"updated_at":16},[331,333],{"article_id":318,"industry_id":177,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":332},{"id":177,"name":179,"description":180,"sector":175},{"article_id":318,"industry_id":334,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":335},"personal_products_and_services",{"id":334,"name":336,"description":337,"sector":140},"Personal Products and Services","Producing and providing leisure and personal products and services for consumers, such as cleaning products, sports equipment and toys, personal and beauty care products, as well as domestic and personal services such as caretaking, cleaning, hairdressing and other beauty treatment, funeral and related activities",{"id":339,"score":109,"body":340,"status":156,"article_id":318,"created_at":319,"updated_at":326,"published_at":319},"Zh7-",{"title":341,"outcome":342,"problem":343,"summary":344,"solution":345,"attachment":346},"Sharing goods between neighbors instead of buying new ones","\u003Cp>The sharing economyhelps reducing the consumption of the inhabitants and packaging waste. Besides, it enhances the life cycle of goods while improving relations between neighbors and helping the community save money through a circular and functional economy. It contributes in reducing consumption, mainly by changing mentalities in favor of degrowth, sobriety and therefore new ways of consuming and owning goods.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The current dominant economy is linear in its processes: it takes resources, makes goods, and quickly wastes them. This is polluting, wasteful and causing greenhouse gas emissions to spiral upwards. Therefore, it is absolutely essential to transforming the way we produce and use goods.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The sharing economy has already proven a wide range of successful applications to be no longer limited to a theoretical concept. Providing environmental and social benefitis, this is what the Circule platform is doing in Montréal.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In order to extend source reduction, Éco2Québec has developed a sharing platform called 'Circule' to encourage neighbors to rent goods from each other instead of buying them. To create this platform Éco2Québec has financed the project by themselves, without external support, while hiring a well-known Tunisian company to minimise costs. The municipality of Laval, among other partners, has been supporting the project.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The new consumption model proposed by Circule, which is to maximise the use of an object between neighbors leads to a better use of resources, which decouples the use of a good and the consumption of energy and raw materials. Rental transactions are carried out between an owner of the object and a tenant, and by paying a commission to the Circule platform. Circule will allow the owner to take charge of the complete life cycle of the object (use, maintenance, reuse, waste and end-of-life management).\u003C/p>",[347,349],{"name":348,"type":153,"value":348},"https://www.circle-economy.com/circular-economy/what-is-the-circular-economy",{"name":350,"type":153,"value":350},"https://www.quebeccirculaire.org/initiative/h/plateforme-circule-location-d-objets-geolocalises-entre-voisins.html",{"id":352,"type":113,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":353,"updated_at":354,"owner_id":232,"owner_relationship":117,"views":355,"owner":356,"image":357,"article_locations":361,"article_industries":364,"view_count":355,"like_count":109,"collection_count":141,"content":370},"18360","2022-08-03T14:24:34.265Z","2026-06-01T00:18:37.766Z",34,{"id":232,"type":120,"owner_id":232,"about":16,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":16,"organisation":16},{"id":358,"link":359,"alt":16,"source":16,"created_at":353,"updated_at":360,"article_id":352,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"ZhemYUreAIE=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778088580267-RnGhUMCI.jpeg","2022-08-16T12:02:31.803Z",[362],{"article_id":352,"location_id":127,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"location":363},{"id":127,"type":130,"name":131,"color":16,"parent_location_id":132,"created_at":133,"updated_at":16},[365],{"article_id":352,"industry_id":366,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":367},"logistics_services",{"id":366,"name":368,"description":369,"sector":248},"Logistics Services","Providing air, water, rail, and land transportation and related services for the distribution of goods, such as air freight, air courier and logistics services, maritime freight, marine courier and logistics services, rail freight, rail courier and logistics services, land freight, land courier and logistics services, including package and mail delivery and customs agents, as well as storage and warehouse facilities",{"id":371,"score":109,"body":372,"status":156,"article_id":352,"created_at":353,"updated_at":360,"published_at":353},"LM0i",{"title":373,"outcome":374,"problem":375,"summary":376,"solution":377,"attachment":378},"A mini-hub for improved urban logistics","\u003Cp>More broadly, this project is supporting a modal shift towards adapted and low-carbon vehicles, and contributes in reducing several kinds of pollution, such as air and noise pollution. A \"mini-hub\" can avoid a certain amount of tons of CO2, while ensuring a better cohabitation between the urban population and roads users, and providing them with improved road safety and health conditions.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Last-mile logistics in urban areas are not efficient enough, representing 30 to 60% of distribution costs and 20 to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions from delivery. For several years, the growth of e-commerce has increased the need for parcel delivery in urban areas, a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic which has increased the pressure on local businesses, which are little or ill-prepared to face the this requirement.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>A mini-hub contributes in shaping the transition towards electric and shared mobility, mainly by improving the delivery sector and its environmental footprint.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Therefore, in many major European and American cities, some urban logistics spaces have been demonstrating their effectiveness in mitigating these externalities and transforming urban logistics.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The project supported by Coop Carbone is deploying a shared urban infrastructure (“mini-hub”) to promote a “softer” model of urban logistics.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Such an initiative is expected to have a more adapted delivery/collection method in an urban context, by improving the vehicles used for delivery services, mainly through electrification, and reducing greenhouse gases emissions. Such a shared urban infrastructure is supporting the access and the competitiveness of local, smaller and medium-sized businesses to sustainable delivery.\u003C/p>",[379],{"name":380,"type":153,"value":380},"https://www.quebeccirculaire.org/initiative/h/mini-hub-partage-de-logistique-urbaine-durable.html",{"id":382,"type":113,"cta":16,"cta_link":16,"created_at":383,"updated_at":384,"owner_id":116,"owner_relationship":117,"views":199,"owner":385,"image":386,"article_locations":390,"article_industries":393,"view_count":199,"like_count":109,"collection_count":141,"content":399},"16776","2022-06-22T15:43:46.191Z","2026-06-01T13:48:57.168Z",{"id":116,"type":120,"owner_id":116,"about":16,"job_title":16,"url":16,"linkedin":16,"email":16,"staff_of_id":16,"organisation_id":16,"organisation":16},{"id":387,"link":388,"alt":16,"source":16,"created_at":383,"updated_at":389,"article_id":382,"image_profile_id":16,"banner_profile_id":16},"aHZzKIrwv5g=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778088579627-6nlh7dcQ.jpeg","2022-08-04T10:18:24.456Z",[391],{"article_id":382,"location_id":127,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"location":392},{"id":127,"type":130,"name":131,"color":16,"parent_location_id":132,"created_at":133,"updated_at":16},[394],{"article_id":382,"industry_id":395,"created_at":128,"updated_at":16,"industry":396},"retail",{"id":395,"name":397,"description":398,"sector":140},"Retail","Providing goods on the Internet, through mail order, or television, or providing goods in stores, including apparel, electronics, furniture, food and drug, etc.",{"id":400,"score":109,"body":401,"status":156,"article_id":382,"created_at":383,"updated_at":389,"published_at":383},"btHB",{"title":402,"outcome":403,"problem":404,"summary":405,"solution":406,"attachment":407},"Transforming production waste into vermicompost to feed garden pollinators","\u003Cp>B Factory is currently in the process of creating their first batch of vermicompost.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>If they make more compost than they can use, they will collaborate with Équipe Zéro, a local landscaping company that exclusively uses bike transport and tools powered by rechargeable batteries. They can sell their surplus compost or trade it in exchange for other services. Alternatively, they may share the compost with the community or get authorisation from the city to plant a second pollinator garden in the park.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>During production of B Factory's beeswax food wraps, paper towels are used and end up in the compost.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>This initiative has three main goals: 1) Reduce paper towel waste by 50% by the end of 2022 2) Educate the community about the benefits of vermicompost, and 3) Feed the in-house pollinator garden to support the bees and the environment and make the community beautiful.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Instead of putting their paper towel waste in the city compost, B Factory has started a vermicompost to make their own compost and feed the pollinator garden that faces their workshop. 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In addition, upcycling 1 full corporate workstation saves enough energy to power 10 houses for an entire day and is equivalent to planting 10 trees. Overall, on average, Réseau•B upcycle 3,500 modular system components and over 150 tonnes of metal a year.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>On average, new corporate furniture produces 40 times more greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than refurbished corporate furniture.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Founded in 1991, when concepts such as the circular economy and sustainable development were still new, Réseau•B is one of the largest corporate furniture refurbishing companies in Canada. Their know-how and unique customer experience allow them to provide guaranteed high-end customized service.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>As an expert partner in LEED projects, Réseau•B works with customers, architects, designers and building managers on office environment planning projects, generating value by adopting an innovative and eco-friendly approach to corporate furniture. Their environmental commitment is driven by three basic concepts that form the core of their vision for profitable and sustainable development.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Concept 1: Upcycle/reuse\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In all the products around us, Réseau•B sees materials with tremendous value-added potential. Whether in terms of refurbishing furniture or packaging products for delivery, they try to make the best use of components that are no longer useful.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Concept 2: Recycle\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>They reduce the waste generated as much as possible and sort various materials from the refurbishment process on a daily basis to ensure high-quality recycling and help create new eco-friendly materials.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Concept 3: Reduce\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Above all, environmental commitment involves recognizing the problem of overconsumption. Réseau•B’s eco-friendly furniture solution allows customers to considerably reduce their environmental impact by opting for the circular economy.\u003C/p>",[442,444],{"name":443,"type":153,"value":443},"https://www.quebeccirculaire.org/initiative/h/valorisation-de-mobilier-corporatif-reusinage-haut-de-gamme.html",{"name":445,"type":153,"value":445},"https://www.reseaub.com/",[]]