More on regulations

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More on regulations

• The Ontario Waste Diversion Act created
  Stewardship Ontario to collect weight based
  packaging fees
• Mandatory paper recycling in St. Johns and
  surrounding areas began in Sept. 2005
• Other parts of the province will also require
  both business and residential waste paper to be
  recycled beginning in March 2006

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Unit 3Finding the Opportunities
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Moving in a greener direction What can you do?

• Develop new product ideas
• Refine production methods
• Make your operations environmentally friendly
• Review your marketing practices

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Developing new product ideas

• Primary sources of new product ideas
• Personal needs
• Personal knowledge of the needs of others
• The media
• Research in Business Data Bases
• Business Journals and books
• Our Heritage
• Travel and Networking experience

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Emerging but critical sources of new business
ideas

• Resource shortages
• Increasing cost for resources
• Rising energy costs
• Changing regulations
• New customer attitudes and needs
• Increasing cost of travel
• New technology

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Local Opportunities
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Local examples of Green Enterprise

• East Coast Converters developed the Billy Boot
  garbage bag from recycled resins
• Enviroplastic Lumber uses a mixture of post
  consumer and post industrial plastics to create
  an assortment of products ranging from lobster
  pots to mailboxes
• Inland Technologies recycles glycol used in the
  deicing process
• Wildland Tours develops ecotourism
  for small groups
• Eastern Newfoundland Home Builders Association
  members construct Enviro-Homes

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National Examples

• The development of Bio diesel and biomass fuels
• Future Aqua Farms integrates aquaculture and
  hydroponics to utilize fish farming wastes
• Beach Laundromat uses solar energy and energy
  recovery to reduce costs
• Vision Quests Windelectric produced ten million
  kwh of electricity for the Alberta market

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International Examples

• Product stewardship legislation in Germany
  results in the development of new technologies
  for dealing with mixed plastics
• Scottish Tourism encourages pollution prevention
  and energy conservation in tourist establishments
• Florida Power and Light implements business wide
  recycling program