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For the month of November, Green Economy London launched Workplace Green Up, a month-long engagement program full of sustainable activities that could be done at work or at home. Each week focused on one of these key areas: waste management, water reduction, environmental stewardship and energy and emissions. Not only did the Convertus team jump at the opportunity to participate, but they encouraged sites Canada-wide to make an extra effort this month to make choices that were good for them and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Waste Management <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the sustainable activities suggested for this week included promoting a zero-waste lunch day. Since this is something Convertus encourages every day, nearly everyone in London participated and sent in pictures of their waste free lunches. All the sites are fortunate enough to have a kitchen available on-site equipped with dishes, silverware and organic waste bins to promote reduced and recycled waste. In addition to the labelled collection bins which make it easier for waste sorting, Convertus has labelled e-waste and battery collection bins to ensure these non-renewable materials are recycled and\/or disposed of properly.<\/p>\n

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Water Reduction <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Convertus celebrated waste reduction by checking for and fixing leaky faucets, repurposing water, only running the dishwasher and washing machine when full and putting weighted water bottles in toilet tanks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cChecking for leaks is something we do weekly at our site and repair right away.\u201d Said Steve Capello, Maintenance Leader. \u201cWhen it comes to repurposing water, we utilize process water to manage tunnel temperatures to encourage the further breakdown of organic waste. When this repurposed water is not available, we use the rainwater from our catchment ponds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Environmental Stewardship <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a business who’s focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving finite resources, the protection, conservation and sustainability of the natural environment is aligned with our purpose to build a sustainable future. One of the activities for this week, \u201cUse environmentally friendly cleaning products\u201d is something, Convertus has been working on transitioning to over the past year where possible, to lessen water pollution, air pollution and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s more, teams in London, Ottawa, Surrey and Nanaimo came together to practice Environmental Stewardship by cleaning up litter in their neighbourhoods. \u201cThis seems to be one of the favorite sustainable activities across sites.\u201d said Ann-Marie Cooper, Communications Advisor, \u201cWe\u2019ve been doing neighbourhood clean-ups for a few years now, and there\u2019s always high engagement across sites. The teams enjoy the exercise and cleaning up the surrounding neighbourhoods. It\u2019s been quite interesting, but disappointing to see what people litter. We\u2019ve found paint cans, carpets and even full beer cans thrown on the side of the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Energy and Emissions <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the final week of Workplace Green Up, Convertus had a friendly competition at London offices to see who had the lowest carbon footprint. The results indicated that travel emissions often scored the highest, which is something mitigated by encouraging alternative transportation or work-from-home arrangements where possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Offices are generally set to 20\u00b0C \u2013 22\u00b0C, but this week\u2019s activities prompted us to start reducing the temperature to 17\u00b0C \u2013 19\u00b0C when shutting down the offices each day to reduce the amount of GHG emissions omitted due to electricity generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Workplace Green Up and Beyond\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Over the years, Convertus has made a number of commitments to address environmental issues through advocacy, education and activism outside of our everyday operations. \u201cGreen Economy London\u2019s Workplace Green Up challenged and inspired us to find new and different ways to operate sustainably and continue being a sustainability leader\u201d said Cooper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"cp_meta_data":{"_last_editor_used_jetpack":["classic-editor"],"_edit_lock":["1606850851:1"],"_edit_last":["1"],"_thumbnail_id":["1344"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"slide_template":["default"],"rs_page_bg_color":["#ffffff"],"_single_add_custom_css":[""],"_fusion":["a:20:{s:25:\"show_first_featured_image\";s:3:\"yes\";s:4:\"fimg\";a:2:{s:5:\"width\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"height\";s:0:\"\";}s:17:\"post_links_target\";s:2:\"no\";s:7:\"bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:14:\"display_header\";s:3:\"yes\";s:14:\"header_bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:12:\"main_padding\";a:2:{s:3:\"top\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"bottom\";s:0:\"\";}s:15:\"content_bg_full\";s:2:\"no\";s:20:\"image_rollover_icons\";s:7:\"default\";s:9:\"bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:16:\"header_bg_repeat\";s:6:\"repeat\";s:14:\"displayed_menu\";s:7:\"default\";s:11:\"slider_type\";s:2:\"no\";s:9:\"wooslider\";s:1:\"0\";s:9:\"revslider\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"blog_page_title_bar\";s:7:\"default\";s:17:\"content_bg_repeat\";s:7:\"default\";s:13:\"posts_sidebar\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:15:\"posts_sidebar_2\";s:15:\"default_sidebar\";s:14:\"sidebar_sticky\";s:7:\"default\";}"],"_fusion_google_fonts":[""],"fusion_builder_status":["active"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_wp_old_date":["2020-12-01"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["1"],"avada_post_views_count":["519"],"avada_today_post_views_count":["1"],"avada_post_views_count_today_date":["15-04-2026"]},"yoast_head":"\nWorkplace Green Up at Convertus - 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