Forum 4 - Green Chemistry in Action by Kayla Sanchez

Industrial Sector

sanchezkay_kay — 2017-11-12 21:32:08 UTC

Food and Beverage Sector

sanchezkay_kay — 2017-11-12 21:34:55 UTC

KEY ECONOMIC FACTS: Ontario Food and Beverage Processing Industry
$40.7 Billion
in annual revenue
130,000
direct jobs
3,000
processing businesses
Majority of businesses
< 99 employees

Client

sanchezkay_kay — 2017-11-12 21:36:21 UTC

Gay Lea Foods

Problem Area:

sanchezkay_kay — 2017-11-12 21:37:03 UTC

sanchezkay_kay — 2017-11-12 21:38:31 UTC

Gay Lea Foods functions in a competitive business community featuring high price pressures and complex regulatory concerns. As well as the cost of energy, water and wastewater used by Gay Lea Foods rising. Due to the high payments of these utilities there is an effort to raise efficiency to reduce the cost and abide with municipal sewer use by-laws.
To support processors like Gay Lea Foods there are utility and municipal programs available which propose and implement energy, water and resource efficiency and conservation practices. But, the time required to investigate and put together applications