Surrey Environment & Business Awards

The Surrey Board of Trade Environment & Business Awards is presented to Surrey-based businesses or Surrey Board of Trade members. They have demonstrated exceptional dedication to environmental leadership and issues. This may take the form of hands-on work through recycling, promoting environmental awareness or education, pursuing ground-breaking ecological research, innovative environmental technology and partnerships with the community to promote the environment.

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Nominations

Nomination Form

Deadline: Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Award Categories

Small, Medium and Large Business

Is your business a part of the Resource Revolution that re-invents, re-thinks and re-defines how we use materials? Then you are a part of the circular economy. You keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them, and then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life. Participating in a circular economy means that your business or organization:

• Reduces waste
• Drives greater resource productivity
• Addresses emerging resource security/scarcity issues in the future
• It helps reduce the environmental impacts of production and consumption
• Focuses on the three priority areas: Food and Drink; Clothing and Textiles; and Electricals and Electronics – all of which are underpinned by resource management
• Implements plan to extract the maximum value and use from raw materials, products and waste, fostering energy savings and reducing Green House Gas emissions.

Submission

Please submit your nomination to:

Rhona Doria
101-14439 104 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3R 1M1
rhona@businessinsurrey.com
T: 604.634.0344
F: 604.588.7549

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2023 Winners

Small Business

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Inc.
RecycLiCo is a battery materials company specializing in sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling and materials production. RecycLiCo has developed advanced technologies that efficiently recover battery-grade materials from lithium-ion batteries, addressing the global demand for environmentally friendly solutions in energy storage. With minimal processing steps and up to 99% extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese, the patented, closed-loop hydrometallurgical process turns lithium-ion battery waste into battery-grade cathode precursor, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate for direct integration into the re-manufacturing of new lithium-ion batteries.

Medium Business Award

CTK Bio Canada
CTK Bio Canada is a research, development, and manufacturing cleantech company that produces fully biodegradable plastics. Its fully automated manufacturing facility and state-of-the-art laboratory convert wasted by-products into biodegradable and compostable plastic pellets and other high-value materials designed to break down in all environments. CTK Bio’s Edition resins are polylactic acid-free and made of waste materials designed to break in any environment and can replace traditional plastics.

Large Business Award

Pattison Food Group
The Pattison Food Group has a long track record of environmental leadership and has earned regional, national, and international recognition for these efforts over decades. The use of smart technology designs, and the LED conversion in their stores has reduced their energy consumption by more than 30% in electrical cost yearly, equivalent to powering 34 stores. Refrigeration conversion programs have reduced the environmental impact by more than 50%. In 2022, Pattison Food Group kept tons of waste out of the landfills and waste streams, diverting nearly 19,000 metric tons of cardboard and over 550 metric tons of plastic film and plastic bags via plastic bag collection bins in their stores. In July 2022, the company moved to digital weekly flyers, eliminating approximately 8 million pounds of paper waste yearly. They partnered with Call2Recycle to collect customers’ end-of-life batteries at the stores for recycling and eventually helped divert almost 4.4 million kilograms of batteries from landfills nationally. The Pattison Food Group is a founding member of the Canada Plastics Pact and is working with PAC Global to align with the Golden Design Rules, expanding their ability to use recycled plastics in all their businesses.

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