Shifting to a Circular Economy:
P&G’s iMFLUX Technology Increases Use of Recycled Plastic
iMFLUX enables high performance plastic parts from recycled resin, creating demand for a truly circular economy for the material.
Fragile Infrastructure:
When Dams Fail
In May 2020, two dams failed on the Tittabawassee River northwest of Midland, MIchigan, flooding the town.
Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Initiative installs ‘Capture’Technology with support from Nova Chemicals
Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup installs capture technology ‘seabin’ with sponsorship from Nova Chemicals
Great Lakes Company Powers Solar & Seeks to Become Even More Sustainable
Few people realize that an essential material for solar energy comes from the Great Lakes region. Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC), located in Hemlock, Michigan, is one of the world’s leading producers of polycrystalline silicon, the preferred material of leading photovoltaic manufacturers. The path to solar energy requires significant energy, however, so when HSC CEO Mark Bassett, […]
Wanted: Healthy Food Sustainably Sourced
for a Hungry World
More than thirty of the world’s largest companies positioned squarely in the global food chain call the binational Great Lakes economic region home. And, with agriculture one of the primary land uses in the region, growing and producing food has always been a vital component of the Great Lakes’s economy. Ontario and Quebec, for example, […]
COVID-19 Ready Reference
for Business & Communities in the Great Lakes Region
COVID-19. The tiny virus who could—and did–upend life as humans knew it prior to 2020, closing businesses, schools, governments, non-profits, communities, and borders in effort to contain the invisible, airborne, potential killer. By the end of March 2020, every one of the eight U.S. states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York) and […]
CGLR Program
Circular Great Lakes:
Forging a Future Without Waste
Valuable materials are lost to landfills and the environment, especially plastics. In fact, it is estimated that 22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes every year. Creating a binational Great Lakes circular economy and cleaning up marine litter is one way to close the loop and keep critical materials cycling through the regional economy.
Creating the Circular Economy in the Great Lakes Region: Lessons from the Field
A new report uses Circular Value Chain and Recovery and Reuse models to looks at three materials streams—steel, plastics, and pulp and paper—and identifies both the potential economic savings and environmental savings by 2050
Smart, Sustainable Great Lakes Cities Regional Cluster: Launched by CGLR in 2019
The Council of the Great Lakes Region launched the binational Smart, Sustainable Great Lakes Cities Regional Cluster (the “Cluster”) as part of the Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) in September 2019. With a combined GDP of US$6.0 trillion in 2017, the Great Lakes Region, home to 107 million people, would equal the third largest economy […]
Harnessing Big Data Analytics to Improve Watershed Protection: CGLR & Pollution Probe 2018 Report
Pollution Probe and CGLR released the report, ‘Water Management and Big Data Analytics: Examination of Opportunities and Approaches to Leverage Data Science, Analytics and Advanced Computing to support Watershed Planning and the health of our Great Lakes Ecosystem’ July 2, 2019. This report was made possible thanks to generous funding from the RBC Foundation, and […]