Instructions / Assembly
Gracious Living’s Sustainability Activities and Recycling
1. Recycle & re-uses all of all internal scrap products
2. Extensive usage of post industrial material & post consumer material.
3. Largest converter of post consumer polypropylene into Housewares
products in Canada.
4. Developed Eco line of products with significant % of post consumer & post industrial
materials
5. Developed blue bins made of 70% post consumer - originated in Ontario
6. Blue Planet program with Canadian Tire Corporation nationwide (launched January 2011)
7. Co-operate and working closely with Stewardship Ontario (SO):
(a) Our mutual goal - Utilize as much Ontario post consumer material as possible
(b) Developed the Blue Bin together with minimum 70% post-consumer material
8. Co-operate and working closely with Ontario Tire Stewardship:
a. Goal - Research & develop ways to utilize maximum amounts of rubber crumb from post
consumer tires originating from Ontario. Our goal is to include between 10% and 40% of this
material into our products.
9. Worked and researched environmental solutions with Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO),
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture , Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Clean Farms and Ontario
Electronic Stewardship (OES).