i-WasteNot Systems
Mallorytown, ON
Company Overview
Our company is the leader in providing high-quality, economical materials (waste) exchanges. We operate the software and web service. Local administrators control the waste diversion using a control panel, and local marketing mechanisms.
We provide private and public community goods and materials exchanges, for industrial exchanges, reusable building materials exchanges, residential community exchanges-or any combination of the above. For examples, see www.2good2toss. com (Washington State), www. foothillswasteexchange. com (Recycling Council of Alberta and CleanCalgary), www. madisonstuffexchange. com (Madison, Wisconsin). Other eg's available.
Reuse of materials reduces global warming by reducing the consumption of energy and materials reduces landfill problems saves costs of disposal saves energy required for disposal assists charities and provides goods to low-income people
Our websites report on their own successes, and permit people to self-register and place listings directly.
We can customize and deploy a website for 1. your community, 2. your company, 3. a group of companies (industrial malls and parks) 4. government department or 5. groups of departments, and for other uses. Customized and deployed to your community in record time, because we use a template system with all the bells and whistles built in, and turned on or off at the click of a button. quickly and easily.
Company Information
Physical Address
1048 Thousand Islands Pky.
Mallorytown, ON K0E 1R0
CA
Mailing Address
1048 Thousand Islands Pky.
Mallorytown, ON K0E 1R0
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: QBC Management
Number of Employees: 5
CA
We design, construct, host and operate waste and materials exchange and other web services that let you concentrate on reducing waste, promoting economic opportunities and reducing costs for your company or community.
Our Recyclopedia service provides your community with an Online Guide to Reuse and Recycling. Our Food Exchanges help local producers find local consumers. Or they can encourage Food Retailers to put food into the mouths of local people who lack it. The Text Exchange service encourages reuse of Textbooks in College and University communities. State Surplus Systems help state administrators move surplus Federal and State goods to those who can receive it under the legislation.
We work to make companies and comunties more sustainable, with less waste and better local trading systems.
www.2good2toss. com Washington State's popular waste diversion system.
www. foothillswasteexchange. com Alberta's successful industrial waste diversion project
www. madisonstuffexchange. com
Suite 10 119 West Pender St Vancouver, BC V6B 1S5 Canada
phone:
(604) 683-6009
fax:
(604) 683-7255
email:
rcbc@rcbc. bc. ca
web:
www. rcbc. bc. ca
February 17, 2004
James Ruttan I-Waste Not Systems #403, 207 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC
Dear James:
The Recycling Council of British Columbia is very interested in and supportive of your new technology that allows easy, local access to information suitable for materials exchange.
As you know, any material that can be reused, in either its original form or in an alternate manner, reduces the volume of waste going to landfill. And less waste to landfill accomplishes a number of things it helps to reduce green house gas emissions (which can lead to serious climate change issues) generated in the land fill, it reduces the emissions created by lengthy transport to a waste site, and it lengthens the life of existing landfills by limiting the volumes being deposited. As well, it can reduce the costs for businesses thereby facilitating start-up and ongoing operations, to the benefit of our entire community and it reduces the need for virgin materials, reducing the impact on our environment.
RCBC operates a materials exchange (the MEX) that aims to accomplish those goals listed above. Currently our exchange is primarily manual. We list and record potential items along with requests and attempt to make the matches. We have recently posted the active list on our website, but this is a static list that is manually updated approximately monthly. In spite of these functional limitations RCBC has helped to place thousands of tonnes of materials.
We are very interested in expanding our Materials Exchange and making it more available to local users. Since we have demonstrated expertise in this area (the management of an exchange) we believe that RCBC is the ideal choice to facilitate a provincial exchange, in fact it would be an extension of what we are already operating.
In British Columbia, the Regional Districts and municipalities are generally not interested in expanding their responsibilities to include management of a materials exchange. Since RCBC is already doing this, it makes sense to facilitate this in a more significant fashion. An expansion of the MEX, with districts or municipalities listed on the website, along with marketing to increase the exposure of this service would have a significant impact. In addition, specific categories to address specific areas such as C & D (construction and demolition) waste would increase diversion of these bulky and problematic items.
I look forward to learning about your progress with this project, and offer our support in any way that it may be possible.
Sincerely, Natalie Zigarlick, CAE Executive Director
Contacts
Products
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Food Exchange
Encourage and enable producers to sell locally produced food in your local community. Producers can manage their own listings. Consumers can post 'Wanted' ads. Customized for local conditions.
Can also be used to encourage producers and retailers to give good food that would otherwise be wasted to those in the community who need it.
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Industrial Waste Exchange
World's best system for encouraging byproduct synergy. One company's waste becomes another company's material-saving landfill costs. Other companies benefit from reduced acquisition costs. The online system is designed to match the needs of waste exchange managers and brokers-making it easy to work with companies in your region to enable matching one company's waste with another company's needs.
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Recyclopedia
Online guide to Take-it-Back programs, Reuse and Recycling Services for local communities and regions. Linked to a municipal waste management site, or an Environmental Group website, or as part of a Residential Waste Exchange, this service puts knowledge on HOW to reuse and recycle into the hands of citizens.
- Residential Waste Exchanges
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Ride Share System
Matches commuters and other travellers lacking transportation with those who have it. And encourages car pooling.
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State Surplus Systems
Under U. S. law, Federal Surplus Materials are distributed in specific ways with specific time limits on advertising them. Our system matches these requirements, and inexpensively enables state officials to distribute surplus materials to municipalities, school boards, non-profit groups and others.
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Textbook Exchange
Great for University and College Communities to help students reuse good used Textbooks, and save money.
Additional Information
541510
AH00-Environmental Protection, E000-Environmental Services, E199-Other Environmental Services
Washington, Wisconsin
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