Recycling Product News July/August 2020, Volume 28, Number 5

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GROWING BEYOND T ECOWASTE IS TAKING IT ONE STEP AT A TIME IN TRANSITIONING FROM C&D LANDFILL TO C&D MRF, WITH THE HELP OF HALF A DOZEN LIEBHERR MACHINES BY KEITH BARKER, EDITOR

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cowaste Industries is a privately owned, family-run C&D landfill operation that has been in the business for 50 years. The company currently operates on 330 acres in Richmond, B.C., with a small transfer station in nearby New Westminster (both municipalities border Vancouver). According to Christian Dietrich, GM of their waste management division, one of the current goals is to transform from a company that is landfilling the bulk of their incoming mixed

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C&D stream to one that landfills only about 20 percent. Dietrich says over the course of the last decade Ecowaste has started to take in an overall wider range of materials, including more mixed waste C&D materials from both residential and industrial sources. “Our main focus is on the construction and demolition industry, mostly in terms of landfilling of material,” explains Dietrich. “We recycle roughly 25 percent of what we do handle and the rest is for landfilling.” Most of the mixed demolition waste they bring in, of which the largest volume is waste wood, comes through less than half a dozen privately run transfer facilities, in and around Vancouver and nearby Surrey.


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