

Resources: Strengthening your municipality’s circular economy initiatives
Find case studies, exercises and worksheets to help your municipality reduce waste and strengthen its circular economy initiatives.
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Resource library: Community Buildings Retrofit
Find practical case studies and guidance for planning your local community building retrofit.

Case Study: Building greener Indigenous housing

Community Efficiency Financing market guide
Guide to help Canadian municipalities assess potential home energy upgrade programs

Webinar recording: How to get a project started, tips for small francophone communities
If you’re a small francophone municipality looking to develop sustainability projects and access funding, watch this webinar to learn how others overcame common challenges.


Webinar recording: Net-Zero Circularity: Procurement
Watch this webinar recording to see how circular procurement can help put the principles of a circular economy into action.


Resources: Strengthening your municipality’s circular economy initiatives
Find case studies, exercises and worksheets to help your municipality reduce waste and strengthen its circular economy initiatives.


Case Study: How Lac-Saint-Jean’s Réemploi+ program is building a circular economy


Case Study: How Guelph-Wellington is building a sustainable food future


Piloting a new method of diverting organics from landfill


Webinar recording: How to start the conversation about circular economies in your municipality


Webinar recording: The 5 keys to a green municipal project business case
Watch this webinar recording and discover the five critical focus areas you need to address to get your project started, from financing and partnerships to integrating a triple-bottom-line approach.

Circular Cities & Regions Initiative
Interested in learning more about how the circular economy can come to life in cities and regions? Review the CCRI webinar recordings featuring speakers from leading organizations and global cities.

Case studies: 2020 Sustainable Communities Award winners


Case study: Campbell River, BC, develops plan to protect against rising sea levels


Case study: Animal-proof bins wrapped in local art get Canmore, AB, composting


Study helps set direction for new composting facility


One-stop shop for waste management sparks community pride


Pilot program proves textile recycling within reach for Canada’s municipalities


Webinar recordings: Best practices in municipal sustainability
How are cities and communities of all sizes tackling their environmental challenges? Find out from our five-part webinar series on innovations and opportunities in municipal energy, waste, water, transportation and land use initiatives.


Report: Solid waste management in Canadian municipalities
Expanding responsibility for producers to include the post-consumer stage of their products is a key solution for financial and environmental sustainability in the waste sector.

Case study: Quebec community serves as a model zero-waste example


Webinar recordings: Plastic waste management solutions for Canadian municipalities
Watch our webinar recordings to see how your Canadian municipality can reduce and better manage your plastic waste through innovative solutions and approaches.


Guide: 2018 Sustainable Communities Awards project guide: Waste
Learn how to implement the best practices and strategies used by Kitimat-Stikine, BC, our 2018 Sustainable Communities Awards waste winner.