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In addition, Bunz raises awareness on its social media platforms by posting about events showcasing local artists and supporting marginalised communities.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The Bunz app is available everywhere — it just needs local people to start new communities by posting items, inviting friends and spreading the word about the platform. To date, Bunz has had inquiries from people in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK about how to start local trading communities using the app. Word-of-mouth marketing by its users has enabled it to organically expand its network beyond Toronto – with active trading networks in Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>For now, Bunz is waiting to see if these initiatives will continue to grow organically or if it will need to hire staff outside of Canada to support its growth.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>A simultaneous improvement in both ecological and economic efficiency is necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leveraging on digital technologies, the sharing economy has potential to promote the needed shifts in collective consumption behaviour.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Bunz is a for-profit enterprise offering an online trading platform where users can post and search for used goods and services to trade and earn rewards that can be redeemed at participating local businesses. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The Bunz app began in Toronto in 2013 when co-founder Emily Bitze started a Facebook group to see if she could trade with her neighbours and friends to get ingredients for a plate of pasta. From these humble beginnings, the Facebook group grew to become a thriving trading community.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>To start trading, users simply create a profile and upload a photo and description of the items or services they want to trade. In April 2018, Bunz introduced its own currency called BTZ, which users earn for participating in a daily survey sponsored by select companies. Bunz distributes 60 per cent of its revenue to users in the form of BTZ, which they can use as part of a trade or to buy things from participating local businesses, specifically cafés and restaurants. When BTZ are used to purchase something at a participating business, Bunz pays these businesses in cash. In the past year, this has amounted to over $1 million.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Bunz supports the circular economy model by:\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- enabling a local exchange of used goods aimed to extend their usage lifecycle\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- disrupting the notion that the economy relies on the manufacture of new products\u003C/p>\u003Cp>- helping people to consider ways they might meet their wants or needs through an informal economic system in which the value of both used goods and service offerings is determined by users\u003C/p>",[420,422],{"name":421,"type":243,"value":421},"https://bunz.com/about",{"name":423,"type":243,"value":423},"https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/8fb6-Toronto-Circular-Economy-Case-Studies-FINAL-for-web-AODA.pdf",{"id":23,"type":185,"cta":6,"cta_link":6,"created_at":425,"updated_at":426,"owner_id":196,"owner_relationship":189,"views":176,"owner":427,"image":428,"contributors":431,"article_locations":437,"article_industries":440,"view_count":176,"like_count":176,"collection_count":179,"content":456,"can_edit":245},"2021-07-23T15:25:02.370Z","2023-04-06T15:46:33.628Z",{"id":196,"type":5,"owner_id":196,"about":6,"job_title":6,"url":6,"linkedin":6,"email":6,"staff_of_id":6,"organisation_id":6,"organisation":6},{"id":429,"link":430,"alt":6,"source":6,"created_at":425,"updated_at":426,"article_id":23,"image_profile_id":6,"banner_profile_id":6},"6Y9oZxqAsm4=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778092747137-_v3Ilabq.jpeg",[432,433,434,435,436],{"contributor_id":196},{"contributor_id":198},{"contributor_id":4},{"contributor_id":257},{"contributor_id":310},[438],{"article_id":23,"location_id":387,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"location":439},{"id":387,"type":205,"name":390,"color":6,"parent_location_id":391,"created_at":208,"updated_at":6},[441,447,449,451],{"article_id":23,"industry_id":442,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":443},"transportation_equipment",{"id":442,"name":444,"description":445,"sector":446},"Transportation Equipment","Producing transportation equipment for the movement of goods and people by air, rail, sea, and land, including airplanes, spacecraft and military equipment, ships, boats, rail locomotives and rolling stock, motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, and related equipment, as well as repair services for such equipment","transportation_and_logistics",{"article_id":23,"industry_id":217,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":448},{"id":217,"name":219,"description":220,"sector":221},{"article_id":23,"industry_id":223,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":450},{"id":223,"name":225,"description":226,"sector":221},{"article_id":23,"industry_id":452,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":453},"consumable_fuels",{"id":452,"name":454,"description":455,"sector":277},"Consumable Fuels","Producing and refining oil, gas, and other consumable fuels related to the generation of energy",{"id":457,"score":176,"body":458,"status":244,"article_id":23,"created_at":425,"updated_at":426,"published_at":425},"fdqZ",{"title":459,"outcome":460,"problem":461,"summary":462,"solution":463,"attachment":464},"City of Toronto to start producing natural gas from Green Bin organic waste","\u003Cp>The City of Toronto’s RNG portfolio is one of the first of its kind in Canada and North America and will allow the City to reduce fuel costs for its fleet of waste collection trucks and significantly reduce its carbon footprint. By capturing, and using this natural gas, the city will decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and avoid releasing 9,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere annually.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Moreover, The City of Toronto is currently exploring opportunities to utilise landfill gas, first at its operating landfill, Green Lane Landfill, and shortly following at the closed Keele Valley Landfill. The City has estimated that both landfill projects will be concluded by 2025. Should the City choose to move forward with generating RNG at these sites, the Green Land Landfill and the Keele Valley Landfill are estimated to generate 27.66M m3/yr and 20M m3/yr, respectively.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>When disposing of waste within an engineered landfill site, not only is all material value lost, but it also entails high emissions implications in terms of transportation and methane emissions from decomposing biomass, which can potentially impact human and ecosystem health if not managed as per regulatory guidelines. Methane emissions are commonly burned as they are produced, making the problem even worse.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>As part of its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, drive economic efficiencies and improve social outcomes, the City has been exploring how it can harness the green energy potential of the biogas and landfill gas produced at its solid waste management sites. Working with Enbridge Gas Inc., the City has installed a biogas upgrading facility at the Dufferin Solid Waste Management Services site. The new infrastructure will allow the City to take the raw biogas produced from processing Green Bin organics, turn it into RNG and inject it into the natural gas grid for use by the City.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In July 2021, Mayor John Tory announced that the City of Toronto would start producing renewable gas (RNG) from Green Bin organic waste and injecting it into the natural gas grid. The RNG produced will be blended with the natural gas that the City buys to create a low-carbon fuel blend that will be used across the organisation to power vehicles and heat City-owned facilities, allowing for a reduction in GHG emissions Citywide.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Toronto’s first RNG facility has recently been built at the Dufferin facility and is ready to start commissioning. 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This method contributed to some problems such as tracking the end use of the material (a circular economy measurement approach encourages the reuse of materials), not tracking on a per capita basis (this is important as the city continues to grow), and missing large segments of the waste stream including reuse, construction and demolition debris, as well as other potential material flows.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Therefore, in the city's move towards adopting circular economy practices that allow for more transparency, traceability, and the calculation of embedded greenhouse gas emissions for different materials, goods, and services there is a need to define better circular economy metrics.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>In November 2019, the Ann Arbor City Council adopted A2ZERO: A Living Carbon Neutrality Plan to achieve a just transition to community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 in four sectors: energy, mobility, resources' usage reduction, and adaptation and resilience.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>The plan aims to eliminate 2.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually and focuses on seven strategies and 44 actions identified by members of the public, technical advisors, the peer-reviewed and grey literature, and internal staff. 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This plan includes a specific goal for municipal facilities to achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2025.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The city of Denver is a true leader in the development of climate-friendly strategies. In 2019, the city set a target of having 256 of its municipal buildings running exclusively on renewable energy by 2025. Delivering on this commitment will help the city reduce its emissions by circa 62,000 million tonnes of CO2e and save USD 1 million per year in electricity costs.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Together with the company Xcel Energy, the city developed a Strategic Energy Plan to achieve 100% renewable electricity for the 256 municipal buildings by 2025. Building from this strong foundation of energy management, the plan contains eight strategies to achieve the objective. The strategies are organised into three focus areas to reduce energy use in existing buildings, mitigate load growth from new buildings, and supply electricity through renewable sources.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Energy efficiency strategies are expected to deliver 12.6 GWh of electricity savings (11% of baseline electricity use) and will result in over $1 million per year of electricity savings. To achieve these savings, $26 million in investment is required, $1.4 million of which would come from Xcel Energy DSM incentives.\u003C/p>",[549,551],{"name":550,"type":243,"value":550},"https://www.denvergov.org/content/denvergov/en/general-services/energy-office.html",{"name":552,"type":243,"value":552},"https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/347/documents/energyoffice/Strategic_Energy_Plan_for_Municipal_Facilities.pdf",{"id":17,"type":185,"cta":554,"cta_link":555,"created_at":556,"updated_at":557,"owner_id":4,"owner_relationship":189,"views":176,"owner":558,"image":559,"contributors":562,"article_locations":566,"article_industries":569,"view_count":176,"like_count":176,"collection_count":179,"content":574,"can_edit":245},"Learn more","http://buildipedia.com/aec-pros/engineering-news/torontos-deep-lake-water-cooling-system","2020-10-01T14:34:50.544Z","2022-06-14T11:16:23.126Z",{"id":4,"type":5,"owner_id":4,"about":6,"job_title":6,"url":6,"linkedin":6,"email":6,"staff_of_id":6,"organisation_id":6,"organisation":6},{"id":560,"link":561,"alt":6,"source":6,"created_at":556,"updated_at":557,"article_id":17,"image_profile_id":6,"banner_profile_id":6},"ADg-qpcpiCg=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778092133148-8-6LpOPl.jpeg",[563,564,565],{"contributor_id":196},{"contributor_id":188},{"contributor_id":4},[567],{"article_id":17,"location_id":387,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"location":568},{"id":387,"type":205,"name":390,"color":6,"parent_location_id":391,"created_at":208,"updated_at":6},[570,572],{"article_id":17,"industry_id":223,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":571},{"id":223,"name":225,"description":226,"sector":221},{"article_id":17,"industry_id":228,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":573},{"id":228,"name":230,"description":231,"sector":221},{"id":575,"score":176,"body":576,"status":244,"article_id":17,"created_at":556,"updated_at":557,"published_at":556},"oT1s",{"title":577,"outcome":578,"problem":579,"summary":580,"solution":581,"attachment":582},"Toronto takes advantage of Lake Ontario's low temperature to operate a heat exchange system","\u003Cp>DLWC now serves over 70 buildings in downtown Toronto, displacing 1391 kg of CFC’s, 61 MW of peak electricity demand, 75% of total cooling-related electricity consumption, and related GHG emissions. Looking forward, plans for DLWC continue to support the City’s long-term goals. The next step in the evolution of DLWC will be the backbone for low-carbon heating as well as cooling.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Additionally, DLWC has generated significant additional benefits since its implementation. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>• DLWC reduces cooling tower use, saving potable water consumption and related energy used in the treatment process.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>• DLWC has contributed to economic development in the City by retaining money spent on energy within the local economy and establishing a centre for innovation in district energy in Toronto. Over the past 10 years, over $116 million of capital has been invested in expansions of the DLWC distribution network.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>• DHR has the potential to reduce GHG emissions by a projected 37,000 tCO2e per year relative to that produced by conventional natural-gas fired boilers, provide a new model for low-carbon heating in Canada, and foster further economic development for the City.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Toronto is Canada’s largest city and continues to grow at a staggering rate. This rapid growth comes with both opportunities and challenges. Economic growth exerts more pressure on Toronto’s already constrained electricity grid and makes it harder to reduce total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, it also provides Toronto with the scale and resources to invest in transformative strategies. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Addressing climate change is a key priority for the City, and its climate change action plan, titled “TransformTO”. Through TransformTO, the City has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. Since 60% of GHG emissions in Toronto are generated by buildings, the City has identified thermal energy networks as a critical strategy to meet its goals.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Since the 60% of GHG emissions in Toronto are generated by buildings, the City has identified thermal energy networks as a critical strategy to meet its sustainability goals, delineated in its climate change action plan, “TransformTO”. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Since the 80s, the primary means of cooling buildings were chiller systems that used chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants, chemicals that are particularly harmful to the ozone layer. Deep Lake Water Cooling (DLWC) has been evaluated as a system to improve the environmental performance of Toronto's energy network in the 90s, when the City experienced a water quality issue as the Zebra mussels infested the City’s potable water intake pipes from Lake Ontario, fouling the water and causing undesirable odours. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>DLWC is a system that would use cold water from the depths of Lake Ontario to supply cooling to buildings in the downtown core instead of refrigerant-driven chillers. Installing very deep raw water intake pipes could both address the water quality issue caused by zebra mussels and provide a source of water that remains a consistent, cold temperature year-round to support DLWC. Commissioned in 2004, DLWC is an example of a circular city strategy that has provided and continues to create value for the City of Toronto, its citizens, and the natural environment.\u003C/p>",[583,584],{"name":555,"type":243,"value":555},{"name":585,"type":243,"value":585},"https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/hlm/sessions/docs2019/Info_6_Circular_Cities.pdf",{"id":21,"type":185,"cta":6,"cta_link":6,"created_at":587,"updated_at":588,"owner_id":589,"owner_relationship":189,"views":176,"owner":590,"image":591,"contributors":594,"article_locations":597,"article_industries":600,"view_count":176,"like_count":176,"collection_count":179,"content":603,"can_edit":245},"2021-02-11T15:58:24.769Z","2022-06-14T11:05:30.561Z","uPN2PA",{"id":589,"type":5,"owner_id":589,"about":6,"job_title":6,"url":6,"linkedin":6,"email":6,"staff_of_id":6,"organisation_id":6,"organisation":6},{"id":592,"link":593,"alt":6,"source":6,"created_at":587,"updated_at":588,"article_id":21,"image_profile_id":6,"banner_profile_id":6},"V9fgECv9SgA=","https://kh-assets.prod.circularity-gap.world/main-image/1778092666714-LJWStIry.jpeg",[595,596],{"contributor_id":4},{"contributor_id":589},[598],{"article_id":21,"location_id":397,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"location":599},{"id":397,"type":205,"name":399,"color":6,"parent_location_id":391,"created_at":208,"updated_at":6},[601],{"article_id":21,"industry_id":318,"created_at":13,"updated_at":6,"industry":602},{"id":318,"name":320,"description":321,"sector":221},{"id":604,"score":176,"body":605,"status":244,"article_id":21,"created_at":587,"updated_at":588,"published_at":587},"4s6v",{"title":606,"outcome":607,"problem":608,"summary":609,"solution":610,"attachment":611},"City of Vancouver waste education and outreach","\u003Cp>During the 2018-2019 school year, over 170 workshops were delivered to 38 schools in Vancouver, reaching over 2,000 students.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Creating a zero-waste community requires everyone living and working in the city to change the way they view and manage waste. Without raising awareness and providing education on waste-related programmes, any efforts from the city to achieve the zero-waste strategy won't be successful.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The City of Vancouver has launched a ‘Zero Waste 2040’ plan, within which it conducts outreach and education activities. \u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Zero Waste Place is a free programme aimed at educating students about the City’s zero waste goals. Its purpose is to increase waste literacy among young students (from kindergarten until 7th grade) and to foster positive, action-oriented behavioural change. Each class receives three workshops, plus additional activities between workshops. The interactive sessions cover topics such as: litter prevention, strategies for properly sorting items, avoiding waste, and designing and managing a project that addresses waste and litter at the community level.\u003C/p>",[612,614,616],{"name":613,"type":243,"value":613},"https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/zero-waste-school-programs.aspx",{"name":615,"type":243,"value":615},"https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/zero-waste-outreach-and-education.aspx",{"name":617,"type":243,"value":617},"https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/zero-waste-vancouver.aspx",[]]