Seacore Wins York Region
Sustainability Award for 2019
We are very honoured and appreciative to be the 2019 recipient of York Region's Business Champion Award for Sustainability. Thank you to ClimateWise for the nomination and thank you to and Federal Minister Mary Ng for presenting the award. Thank you also to all the businesses we have worked with in building our sustainable programs over the years. Since 2009, Seacore has actively put an emphasis on reducing our carbon footprint and to become part of the Green Economy. We felt this was extremely important to us and we initiated many programs because it was the right thing to do as opposed to just looking at the profitability of it.
Our Environmental Program over the years has expanded quite a bit. From modifying our warehouse to lower our energy consumption to co-founding the world's first sustainable seafood alliance in Sea Pact, Seacore has been dedicated in becoming a leader in our seafood industry with respect to sustainability. Here are some of the goals we have obtained in our sustainable program, which we call internally BlueTrees:
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Cardboard Recycling Program
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Brown Corrugated Box Program instead of white, bleached ones
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Paper Recycling Program
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Organic Waste Removal
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Modified Warehouse Lighting to Reduce Energy Consumption
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Installed Light Motion Sensors in offices and washrooms
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Hands-Free Faucets to conserve water
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Hand Dryers used to reduce paper consumption
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Aerodynamic Tractor Trailer Skirts for all of our Highway Trucks
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High-Speed Roll-up Doors to Reduce Energy Consumption
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Zero Emission Trucks - now 100% of our fleet has been changed – equipped with DEF diesel exhaust fluid that makes the air coming out without emissions.
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Our entire facility Display Lights were changed to LED lights to reduce Energy Consumption
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Re-usable Totes Program for Customers not wanting to use Cardboard Boxes
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1,000 Evergreen Trees planted annually by the Seacore community
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Co-founder of SeaPact: A global first of its kind for a pre-competitive alliance for improving our fisheries and aquacultures in order to make them more eco-friendly and sustainable. www.seapact.org
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OceanPrime Sustainable Seafood Program
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Environmental Company Policy
