Environmental Sustainability
Every year in Western Canada, we recycle 1 billion pounds of raw material and collect and recycle 62 million pounds of used cooking oil. Rendering these materials has the same effect on greenhouse gas emissions as removing 150,000 cars from the road each year.
Our rendering processes are designed to reduce energy and water consumption while minimizing environmental impacts. We also use the most efficient odour control technology available to the industry. Process air is captured on every piece of equipment and directed to thermal oxidizers, which use heat to combust the air at high temperatures and destroy associated odours. Valuable heat is recovered as steam to support a full-circle processing system.
Our entire system is environmentally efficient and safe. We also recognize that environmental improvement projects typically have multiple benefits. When we installed low volume pressure wash stations in our Vancouver facility we were able to reduce the process water usage by 5%. This project not only reduced our water requirements through a drought summer, it improved the cleanliness of our facility and vehicles, and also reduced the volume of wastewater requiring further treatment.
By installing 12 new high pressure, low volume systems in our Vancouver plant, we reduced water usage across the facility by 5%.
We are standardizing our Environmental Management System to be consistent with the latest internationally recognized standard of ISO 14001.