Alberta Agriculture and Forestry and Provision Coalition partnered with two bakeries in Alberta - Byblos Bakery and Calgary Italian Bakery Ltd. - on a food and resource conservation initiative to explore the opportunities on prevention of food loss and waste, as well as related utility consumption, within their operations. This initiative involved piloting of Provision Coalition’s on-line Food Loss + Waste (FLW) Toolkit in tandem with a food waste prevention assessment conducted by Enviro-Stewards at each facility.
The FLW Toolkit, which is part of Provision’s online Sustainability Management System, is the only Canadian resource accessible by all food and beverage manufacturers to assist in quantifying in-plant avoidable food waste, calculating its dollar value, and conducting a root cause analysis to developing cost effective FLW reduction strategies. It is available free of charge to food processing and other industry members. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
 Case study on the Calgary Italian Bakery Ltd. “This project has provided us with valuable insight on how to improve our operations. The Calgary Italian Bakery Ltd. has a long-standing commitment to the community and our role as a local business. We understand now that with a few relatively simple process changes and upgrades we can find significant production savings for the company and the environment.”
-Louis J. Bontorin, VP Sales and Administration
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 Case study on Byblos Bakery
“It is a fairly simple equation for business that when you streamline operations you improve profitability. This project did exactly that by exploring food loss + waste in our operation and the related utility consumption. At Byblos, we are also concerned about our impact on the environment and now we are a step closer to that goal with an achievable greenhouse gas reduction target of 500 tonnes per year.”
-Joe Swiston, General Manager
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We would like to thank our project partners:
 
For more information, please contact:
Victor Cheng
Senior Industry Development Officer - Clean Energy & Biorefining
Phone: (780) 638-3158
Email: victor.cheng@gov.ab.ca | | 
Alberta Agriculture & Forestry
Bio-Industrial Opportunities Section
O.S. Longman Building
4th Floor, 6909 - 116 Street
Edmonton Alberta T6H 4P2
Phone: (780) 644-8118
Email: biobranch@gov.ab.ca
Bio Processing Innovation Centre - Grand Opening and Open House
September 21, 2017
1:00 - 3:30pm
5520 - 36 Street, Edmonton, AB
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