Sustainable Community Plan for the Town of Collingwood

Minimizing Resource Use
What are Some Actions you would like to see made in the Nottawasaga region to move towards sustainability?
(priorities are identified with an (*) asterisk)
BMWT Staff Council Committee
Public
Sustainability
Members
Committee
*Alternative • Promote businesses energy – • Education youth, Active transportation *Develop an energy *Pay full price for what • Strategy on energy
encourage that use recycled /move industrial users (through bike lanes, strategy
we use for businesses and water
towards products – alternative all
(water and waste) sidewalks. Attractive *Develop water and and individuals
• Municipal buildings –
energy lifecycle options - solar • Awareness of routes, safety, waste strategies
• Develop an energy waste, water, energy
panels • Examine on south bans for facing programs
connectivity between • Explore methods strategy
audits, retro-fitting
roofs ‘useless’ activities,
municipalities to move
• Prohibiting drive-thru
for discouraging • Water needs to • Waste – working
*Target clothes 0% lines, lawn landfill
people out of cars)
banks and
bottled water from stay in watershed with the County,
impact watering
restaurants
• Round-abouts, urban aquifers
• Implement source composting available
• Setting Better insulation targets to of
design standards • Explore new
water
free in TBM- should
• Limiting plastic bags
reduce residential/commerci
energy and
water use –
•
• ‘Dark Sky’ approach initiatives for new management plan be in Collingwood as
Encourage/educate
al industrial
individuals,
on why we are doing • Use water as a
development e.g. (MOE to fund)
well.
business, town
it
revenue generator (with
district energy
• Alternative building
• Procurement • Procurement policies
conservation)
• Infrastructure
techniques
policies, reduce
– for waste in
Give incentives – • Cost efficiency (LED
replacement
respond to positive
Lights)
• Grey water
toxic products,
buildings, also
• Assist in advocating
• Consider
buildings, non
suppliers to the
for regional
• Be careful about • Wind generation (top • Alternative energy –
incineration
escarpment
Town
packaging
business case
of elevator, other e.g. wind
(biomass)
aggregates. • Packaging of the
• Increased use of
around this cost of
options?)
• Continued upgrade of
• Consider
Favour companies products – FCM
alternative energy
services (water)
distribution
increasing
that are
Strategy
(solar, wind,
• Stormwater
• Natural gas
composting
environmentally • Design standards –
geothermal)
management ponds –
distribution centre
• Explore other
responsible
higher standards for
• Decreased use of
use of ponds
and bio-diesel
waste
• Increase amount municipal design (ie.
carbon based
• Green Roof – sewage
• Stop water from
management
of recycling
Gold not anything
energy sources
treatment plant
leaving our
technologies • Legislate reduction less)
watershed (bottled
• Agriculture –
of waste
• Pesticide By-law –
water)
protection of the land or
• Take leadership in more superior than
use of the land for
reducing toxics
provincial proposed
• Partnerships
further development
and carcinogens legislation
• Clean filtered grey
• Environmental
• Ban plastic bags
water
features – tap into the
• Set specific targets
• Tougher recycling
available resources
guidelines
• True use of recycled
products
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