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Solid Waste & Recycling Canada’s magazine on collection, hauling, processing and disposal April/May 2014

RECYCLING EQUIPMENT Our Special Section on Technology and Solutions — pages 8-21

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Solid Waste & Recycling

CONTENTS April/May 2014 Volume 19, Number 2

Canada’s magazine on collection, hauling, processing & disposal

COVER STORY: SPECIAL FOCUS ON RECYCLING EQUIPMENT

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MUNICIPAL RECYCLING EQUIPMENT The City of London’s new recycling system.

by Guy Crittenden

IC&I RECYCLING EQUIPMENT

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Cover art by Charles Jaffe

Machinex’s system for Crown Shred and Recycling of Regina, Saskatchewan.

by Guy Crittenden

PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP EQUIPMENT Tyromer process turns scrap tires into new rubber.

by Anne Kershaw

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FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

DIVERSION: TEXTILES

Editorial

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Steps to recycling more textiles to prevent their landfill disposal.

by Daniela Siggia

Up Front

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TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY: NATURAL GAS Quebec hauler EBI Environnement Inc.’s switch to natural gas vehicles.

by Guy Crittenden

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SPOTLIGHT: HEIL/ESG Heil truck plant tour and profile of the Environmental Solutions Group.

by Guy Crittenden

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Waste Business

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Organic Matters

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IC&I Waste

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OWMA Report

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Regulation Roundup

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Ad Index

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Blog

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NEXT EDITION: June/July 2014 Editorial: Electronic waste programs across Canada. Plastics recycling. Spotlight on TerraCycle.

Landfill closure. Tips on buying a baler.

Space closing: June 3, 2014.

Artwork required: June 10, 2014.

Textile diversion, pg. 22

EBI Environnement Inc., pg. 23

IC&I Waste, pg. 38

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EDITORIAL

by Guy Crittenden “NextUse envisions plants that could process more than 600,000 tonnes of Metro Vancouver’s solid waste.”

Private Recycling vs.

Utility-Model Incineration Unwelcome side-effects of Metro Vancouver’s proposed Bylaw 280

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n the last issue I wrote a cover story about Metro Vancouver’s waste On February 17, 2014 in Vancouver, NextUse Recycling Ltd. , a Belplan, which seeks to boost the region’s recycling and composting korp group company, announced it has applied to Metro Vancouver for rates, then send the residual waste for incineration in one or more a license to build and operate a $30 million MWMRF. The license apwaste-to-energy plants. (See “Burning Ambition,” February/March plication is supported by the City of Coquitlam, where the plant would 2014 edition). I resisted the temptation to editorialize overly-much be built. (According to NextUse’s press release, the project was unaniabout the incineration part of the plan, but drew attention to some pasmously endorsed by the Coquitlam council on January 20, 2014.) sages in Metro Vancouver waste-related documents that make it clear The plant envisions generating up to 80 jobs, and using advanced officials are leaving themselves lots of wiggle room in meeting aggrestechnology to break open garbage bags and divert recyclable and comsive diversion targets by allowing some recyclable materials to be fed postable material from incinerators or landfills. The plant would be to the incinerator(s). Qualifiers include that recycling rates will hit the built, the release states, “at no cost to municipal residents” and could high numbers where there are markets for the materials; otherwise the handle about 26 per cent of Metro Vancouver’s municipal solid waste. burning of such materials will be permitted.

Simply put, NextUse wants the recyclables that remain in the waste It’s this express allowance for inclusion of recyclables in incinerator stream after source separation (e.g., the blue box). feedstock that concerns critics, and has Problem is, this is the same waste put Metro at loggerheads with a comthat Metro Vancouver wants for its incinpany that wants to aggressively go after erator. every shred of recyclable material with Using Metro’s own numbers, the reone or more proposed new mixed-waste maining municipal solid waste, includmaterial recovery facilities (MWMRFs). ing mixed multi-rez material, contains Metro Vancouver, it turns out, is 18 per cent plastics and 16 per cent using bylaws carefully written to favor paper. Stuff that “burns real good” as its plans to burn some recyclable mathey say. terial to stymie proponents of the MWMetro has proposed Bylaw 280 that MRFs — precisely the kind of conflicttreats recycling plants like the one proed, monopolistic and anti-recycling posed by NextUse as disposal facilities, Artist’s rendering of NextUse Recycling mixed waste recycling plant. behavior that incineration opponents and restricts to five per cent the amount fear. (And this, before an incinerator is even built.) of “banned material” (specifically paper and plastics) received at the Before we look at the MWMRF option and Metro’s games, let’s reMWMRFs. The outcome? The “burnable” materials (i.e., paper and mind ourselves of the situation the region faces. plastics) would be kept in the “waste.”

Of the roughly three million tonnes generated by residents and busiExperts say this is needed to make incinerators viable: 75 per cent of nesses each year, a little over half is diverted from disposal. The rest the heating value in mixed waste comes from recyclables. goes either to the region’s 25-year-old incinerator in Burnaby or to area In addition to the Coquitlam project, NextUse is examining the poslandfills (e.g., Cache Creek or Vancouver Landfill in Burns Bog). Metro sibility of building another plant in the Fraser Valley Regional District Vancouver plans to boost the diversion rate to 70 per cent by 2015, and following the FVRD’s release of a draft solid waste management plan perhaps — as an “aspirational goal” — to 80 per cent by about 2020. that prioritizes recycling. The Coquitlam facility, combined with anRecent 2012 data indicates the breakdown of current recycling. About other proposed MRF which has been substantially constructed in the 75 per cent of demolition, land-clearing and construction waste is diverted City of Vancouver and a third facility (which could be located in Sureach year from disposal. Single-family homes come in next-highest with rey), could process more than 600,000 tonnes of the municipal solid 56 per cent diversion. The industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) waste left after curbside recycling programs, dramatically increasing sector diverts 38 per cent, and multi-family homes bring up the rear at 30 recycling levels and reuse opportunities across the lower mainland. per cent. (Multi-rez was stuck at just 15 per cent in the 2011 data I reWhatever one thinks abstractly of waste-to-energy, the effects of Byported in my cover story, but I was alerted that the 2012 information inlaw 280 in diverting valuable materials away from privately-financed cludes materials diverted via product stewardship programs.) recycling plants toward taxpayer-funded incinerators run on a monopoly What jumps out is the multi-rez sector as the place where the most utility model is a significant flaw in Metro Vancouver’s scheme and “bang for the buck” can be achieved if attention is focused on pulling out should give policymakers pause. more recyclables.

And multi-rez waste is what Metro Vancouver is facing off over with Guy Crittenden is editor of this magazine. Contact Guy at the private sector. gcrittenden@solidwastemag.com 4 www.solidwastemag.com April/May 2014

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UPFRONT

Canada’s magazine on collection, hauling, processing & disposal

Dutch trade mission Fall 2014

Guy Crittenden Editor gcrittenden@solidwastemag.com Brad O’Brien Publisher bobrien@solidwastemag.com Dave Douglas Account Manager ddouglas@bizinfogroup.ca Sheila Wilson Art Director Kimberly Collins Market Production Anita Madden Circulation Manager Bruce Creighton President Business Information Group Contributing Editors Michael Cant, Rosalind Cooper, Maria Kelleher, David McRobert, Clarissa Morawski, Usman Valiante, Paul van der Werf Award-winning magazine Solid Waste & Recycling magazine is published six times a year by EcoLog Information Resources Group, a divi­sion of BIG Magazines LP, a div. of Glacier BIG Holdings Company Ltd., a leading Canadian businessto-business information services company that also publishes HazMat Management magazine and other information products. The magazine is printed in Canada.

Solid Waste & Recycling provides strategic information and perspectives on all aspects of Canadian solid waste collection, hauling, processing and disposal to waste managers, haulers, recycling coordinators, landfill and compost facility operators and other waste industry professionals.

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o you want to find out how the Dutch essentially put zero waste into their landfills? An upcoming five-day waste management themed trade mission, organized by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Toronto and Vancouver), will reveal all. The trade mission will include four days of site and policy-maker visits and one day at a popular Dutch recycling conference. What is seen is driven by the trade mission delegates, which are limited to 10.

Visit www.2cg.ca/pdffiles/dutch-recycle-package.pdf or contact Paul van der Werf at 2cg@sympatico.ca

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ORILLIA TO HOST ZERO WASTE CONFERENCE

n summer 2014, a unique Zero Waste Conference will be held in Orillia, Ontario to look at accelerated waste solutions and share a number of successful waste diversion strategies.

The evening gala on August 10, 2014 will be followed by a one-day waste forum (August 11, 2014) at Lakehead University’s Orillia campus. The event will feature speakers, panel discussions, and small group plenary sessions with various government, business and institutional leaders.

Conference speakers will share a wide range of viable, practical waste solutions about how to improve marketing and public image, while protecting the bottom line.

Visit zerowasteconference.ca

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UPFRONT WDO NEGOTIATIONS AND DECISIONS

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n April 8, Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) informed Stewardship Ontario (SO) that it is moving forward with a dispute resolution process contained in the Blue Box and MHSW Program Agreements, concerning the Management Services Agreement executed between SO and the Canadian Stewardship Services Alliance Inc. According to a public notice, WDO says while it “is supportive of SO entering into a management agreement with CSSA, we continue to have serious concerns with this agreement. Both parties have tried over the past few months to resolve these concerns, but it has not been possible to do so. WDO will be proposing to SO that the dispute resolution process be accelerated so that the outstanding issues can be resolved through arbitration if necessary and as soon as possible.”

In addition, WDO has also informed SO that it will be initiating a program cost review of the Blue Box and the MHSW programs to gain a better understanding of SO’s administrative costs to administer these programs. In the meantime, WDO will continue working

with SO, as it does with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship and Ontario Tire Stewardship, on ongoing oversight functions.

Meanwhile the WDO board is set to make an official decision before June 18, 2014 about Call2Recycle Canada’s industry stewardship plan (ISP) to recycle Ontario’s single-use batteries. While WDO has been considering the battery stewardship proposal since fall 2013, stakeholders have raised concerns over the financial impact on industry, particularly Ontario’s Raw Materials Co. in Niagara, and questioned the merit of burning batteries for use as a road aggregate Formed in 1994, Call2Recycle works on behalf of some 200 battery and product manufacturers. Single-use batteries are covered by the Ontario Municipal Hazardous or Special Waste Program Plan under the Waste Reduction Act 2002. If accepted, Call2Recycle would transition its program out of Stewardship Ontario. The organization would absorb the costs of collecting, transporting and collecting the batteries.

Visit wdo.ca

RCBC selects Australia’s Acaroglu as keynote

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ustralian sustainability expert Leyla Acaroglu has been chosen as the keynote speaker for the 40th anniversary edition of the 2014 RCBC Conference. The event runs from May 28-30, 2014 at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Acaroglu is a designer, social scientist, educator and passionate proponent of sustainability in and through design. Acaroglu’s work has included the development of one of the first online lifecycle assessment tools. She is the Director of EcoInnovators, a lecturer at RMIT University, and is currently undertaking her PhD in change-centric design.

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A Miller Waste Systems employee checks the performance of one of the two Machinex balers at the London Regional MRF.

MRF London-style The City of London Regional Material Recovery Facility

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he City of London Regional Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is a state-of-the-art two-stream recycling facility owned by the City of London that was designed, built and is currently operated by Miller Waste Systems.

Since opening its doors the MRF operation has exceeded expectations in numerous ways, from material quality to financial performance.

According to Jay Stanford, Director, Environment, Fleet & Solid Waste, the facility was designed as a regional MRF, capable of processing 75,000 tonnes per year over two shifts.

“A key foundation of the MRF was to ensure that flexibility was designed at the start,” he says, “to deal with increasing uncertainty on product mixtures, products weights and volumes, and the ongoing debate of two-stream versus single-stream processing.”

Specifically, the facility was designed so that it can be converted to a single-stream facility, expanded to process 100,000 tonnes per year, and so managers can add materials currently not being processed (e.g., film and expanded foam polystyrene), add additional equipment (e.g., a second optical sorter) and can ship loose or compacted ONP (depending on market demand).

COSTS & PERFORMANCE The capital cost of the “greenfield” facility was $22.4 million, which included a grant of $4.4 million from Ontario’s Waste Diversion Organization’s Continuous Improvement Fund. The grant covered the cost to increase the design capacity beyond London’s requirements (40,000

by Guy Crittenden “The container line can process approximately five to six tonnes per hour.”

tonnes) to the regional capacity. It also covered the costs associated with designing the building and process layout to more readily allow future conversion to single-stream processing (if desired). Federal Gas Tax funding was used to cover the remainder of the funds.

When the facility opened in the summer of 2011 it was processing approximately 28,000 tonnes per year from the City of London. Since then, seven additional municipalities (Alymer, Bayham, Central Elgin, Dutton-Dunwich, Malahide, St, Thomas and Thames Centre) have started using the MRF, which now processes about 35,000 tonnes per year running on one shift.

The MRF building is a pre-engineered building with the process area covering approximately 6,500 square metres (70,000 sq. ft.). All process functions, bale storage, ONP compactors (two) and glass load-out bays are indoors; only the residue compactors (two) are outdoors. Manual sorting enclosures are employed with dedicated HVAC for each enclosure.

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“A quality control sort just before the residue compactors allows missed containers to be returned to the start of the process for capture.”

The MRF tip floor is entered through four nine-metre-high overhead doors. A five-metre-high concrete dividing wall separates the tip floor into two spaces: one for fibres and one for containers, each providing two-days storage of material at the design throughput rate.

To minimize wear of the floor at the feed conveyor pits, steel rails are imbedded in the floor where the loader pushes material onto the two feed conveyors.

RECYCLING EQUIPMENT The MRF’s processing equipment is typical of a state-of-the-art twostream MRF.

The fibre line can process approximately 20 tonnes per hour and uses a triple-deck OCC screen, of which there are very few in use in North America), an ONP screen for fibre grade separation, plus manual sorting.

The container line can process approximately five to six tonnes per hour and uses an overhead steel magnet, fines screen, air classifier (to separate glass from other containers), perforator, optical sorter (to capture PET and mixed plastics), an eddy current separator (for aluminum cans) and manual sorting (for aluminum foil, HDPE, and polycoat).

A pre-sort station is provided that allows contaminant removal as well as the capture and convenient return to the correct stream of

Miller Waste Systems staff working on the manual portion of the container line at the London Regional MRF.

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Miller Waste Systems staff in action in the pre-sort room working on the container line.

BHS POLISHING SCREEN

Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) Polishing Screen-DRS installed in a Delaware plant, before and during a mixed recycling stream run.

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he Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) Polishing Screen-DRS速 is a highly effective and efficient separator of containers from paper. This versatile screen utilizes the patented BHS compound, in-line disc design that virtually eliminates material wrapping. This keeps maintenance costs low and material quality high.

The adjustable, three-section angled deck creates three material fractions: mixed fiber, containers and fines. Two-dimensional paper is conveyed over the screening surface while containers and other three-dimensional objects roll off the back of the screen for sorting. Small contaminates fall through the screen, keeping them out of the finished products. The result is an extremely clean container stream, resulting in maximum recovery of valuable containers and virtually no loss of fibre to residue. BHS states that its equipment offers the longest disc wear in the industry. Visit bulkhandlingsystems.com

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City of London Waste Diversion Coordinator, Anne Boyd, stands beside the optical sorter for plastic products.

Miller Waste Systems staff working on the paper sorting line at the London Regional MRF.

any cross-contamination (i.e., containers in the fibres stream and vice versa). Quality control sort stations are employed in several areas in the process, including a QC sort just before the residue compactors that allows missed containers to be returned to the start of the process for capture.

The process equipment was manufactured by Machinex, with the exception of the optical sorter (Pellenc), the overhead magnet and the eddy current (both Steinert). The MRF uses two Machinex balers that are configured to allow the use of either baler for both fibre and containers (in the event one baler is temporarily out of service).

Wesley Abbott, Division Manager, Solid Waste Management at the City of London, is pleased with the results. “Since opening in 2011 the facility has exceeded expectations, with

a residue rate of less than four per cent and a capture rate of recyclables placed in the correct stream of over 99 per cent,� Abbott says.

End market customers have been pleased as well with material from the MRF. The average per-tonne revenue from the facility typically exceeds the Reclay StewardEdge Composite Price by 10 to 20 per cent every month.

The increase in revenue coupled with the lower operating costs will result in a combination of savings and avoided costs of over $1,000,000 for London and its partner municipalities in 2014 compared to expenditures in 2010.

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Machinex’s project for Crown Shred and Recycling

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lessisville, Quebec-based Recycling equipment manufacturer Machinex is pleased with how things turned out for customer Crown Shred and Recycling of Regina, Saskatchewan.

The system installation began in October, 2013 and started operation on November 25 last year. The system can process eight tonnes per hour (tph) of residential and commercial single-stream material.

Crown Shred chose Machinex to design and build the system because the recycling equipment supplier was able to work with the company through multiple development concepts and system layouts. Machinex was also able to fit the system within the customer’s building, accommodating necessary throughputs and delivering desired end products.

Some of Crown Shred’s existing equipment was incorporated into the design, which required dismantling of the existing equipment and preparing the components for reuse in the new system.

Cory Shaw, Operations Manager with Crown Shred and Recycling is also happy with the result.

“From start to finish, the installation went according to plan,” Shaw says. “The equipment is very well built and we have had no issues in the first three months of operation.”

Shaw notes that the control system allows the company to make changes to the equipment on the fly, without shutting down the system.

“This is key for us as we change different materials a couple of times a day,” he says. “We can control the flow of material to different areas of the system, allowing for a cleaner end product.”

DETAILS AND ADVANTAGES What jumps out as special about the Crown Shred project?

Machinex says the system improves worker safety and ergonomics

Crown-ing Achievement

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Above: The Mach ballistic separator.

Opposite page: Overview of the system including view of the Mach motion floor bunkers.

“Being able to move the material without using its mobile equipment is huge for Crown Shred.” which, in turn, results in higher productivity. For instance, the inclusion of MACH Motion Floor® fibre bunkers means less use of mobile equipment.

The fibre quality control (QC) sorting conveyor incorporates Machinex’s exclusive internal container return system and a MACH ballistic separator is able to fit in a low-ceiling building space to give the 2D/3D separation the client needs.

Machinex’s standard controls system allows for multiple system recipes. This allows Crown Shred to customize the system settings for varying material streams and weather conditions.

The outdoor in-feed conveyor with metering drum gives a smooth, consistent flow of material into the system. Also, the pre-sort conveyor over bunkers removes contaminants and bulky items.

The system incorporates a MACH double-deck OCC (old corrugated cardboard) screen with a QC sorting station. The OCC is conveyed to an adjacent building space that houses the baler and the fibre QC sorting equipment.

A MACH fines screen is mounted under the OCC screen; the fines material is conveyed to an outside compactor. The fines screen is mounted on rollers so it can be moved out from under the OCC screen for easy cleaning when needed. (This feature also improves safety for maintenance personnel.)

OCC screen unders material goes into a MACH ballistic separator for the split of 2D (fibres) and 3D (containers) fractions. From there the container fraction moves under a cross-belt magnet for the removal of ferrous material. The container sorting area is a modified component from an existing system. The container sorting finishes off with an eddy current separator for the efficient capture of non-ferrous materials.

The fibres from the ballistic separator are conveyed to an adjacent

building space that houses the baler. There they undergo a QC sort and are stored in MACH Motion Floor bunkers.

RESULTS The system is achieving its design throughputs of eight tph of residential and commercial single-stream material, with low labour costs, high throughputs and enviable commodity purity. Reduced reliance on mobile equipment has resulted in lower operating and maintenance costs.

The system also lowers air emissions, and creates a more comfortable working environment for the sorters.

Asked why the company chose Machinex to design and build the system, Crown Shred mentions that the company had used Machinex previously on smaller projects and knew the supplier was up to the job.

Says Shaw, “Machinex was aware of the issues we faced on a daily basis and were able to alleviate some of those issues.”

“Being able to move the material without using our mobile equipment is huge for us,” he adds. “We still have to move some of it but not nearly as much as we did in the past. Before we would handle the material five times before it was baled and ready for shipment. Now that’s down to two times.”

Shaw highlights the system’s ability to adjust the system for changing material streams and changing weather conditions, and the fact that the system can be remotely monitored through the Machinex control system, that also allows troubleshooting.

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CP GROUP EQUIPMENT SERVES SINGLE-STREAM PLANT

The system uses two IPS balers, one for fibres and the other for multi-material baling.

(Inset) Proprietary CP Group screening technology separates fibres from containers.

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em-Con Companies teamed up with San Diegobased CP Group to custom design and install a new 20 tonne per hour single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in Shakopee, Minnesota. The new MRF began operation in November 2013 and serves the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, and has generated over 50 jobs. The system is housed in a new

60,000 square foot building and has the capacity to process 275 tonne of recyclables per day.

The advanced MRF uses equipment provided by the CP Group that includes proprietary screening technology to separate fibres from containers. An MSS Aladdin™ optical sorter separates plastics to be recovered and recycled. The system also uses a magnet for metal capture, as well as

two IPS balers: a two-ram baler for multi-material baling, as well as the Conquest™ for fibre baling.

The Dem-Con team implemented a unique forward-thinking educational room within the facility where community members and school children can view the recycling process in action.

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by Anne Kershaw “Tyromer is doing something that has never been done before cost effectively.”

What Goes Around...

Bench-scale Tyromer equipment processing rubber into a devulcanized material.

Comes around for tire polymer recycling innovator Tyromer Inc.

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n a world that sees a new crop of one billion scrap tires every year, a small Waterloo, Ontario company has found a safe and cost-effective way to turn them into a reusable product.

Tyromer Inc., a company built on a breakthrough in polymer research at the University of Waterloo, is offering a game-changing solution to what has long been an environmental nightmare. And, with the company capturing attention from rubber manufacturers and environmentalists at home and around the world, business is strong.

Tires are made with virgin rubber that undergoes a “vulcanization”

process using sulfur to harden the rubber and give tires their durability and wear-resistant quality. Until now, there has been no way to reverse the process or “devulcanize rubber” that wasn’t prohibitively expensive or didn’t involve toxic materials banned for large-scale industrial use.

In 2000, chemical engineering professor Costas Tzoganakis, Ph.D. discovered an environmentally safe way to break the sulfur bonds using carbon dioxide to make rubber from tires reusable. But it wasn’t until 2009 that efforts got underway to scale up and commercialize the technology for industrial use.

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(Left to right): Professor Costas Tzoganakis (inventor), Dr. Mo Meysami (Director R&D) and Dr. Prashant Mutyala (MITACS Post Doctoral Intern).

The new technology has the potential to revolutionize the tire industry. Currently, about 50 per cent of scrap tires are burned to recover some energy; some are ground into crumbs to use as filler in asphalt road pavement or playgrounds, but the market is only a fraction of the available supply. Now, Tyromer has developed a process for producing a high-value devulcanized rubber that can be used as a rubber substitute in tire manufacturing.

“Before, old tires weren’t good for anything else,” says Sam

Visaisouk, Ph.D., CEO of Tyromer. “You couldn’t make them into a different shape like a pair of rubber boots. This has been a major problem with scrap-tire management.”

The ability to use the crumb from old tires, devulcanize them and turn them into a rubber for making tires or other products can be seen as the ultimate in recycling. But, notes Visaisouk, Tyromer shouldn’t be confused with a waste management company.

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The AFCD is built to work with both CNG and diesel engine configurations, leaving the sides of the truck’s frame rails readily accessible for other accessories, such as large CNG tanks. To reduce install time, all AFCDs ordered arrive onsite “pre-plumbed” with each of their three cylinders already installed. Additionally, a pintle-ready apron reduces installation and/or modification costs for haulers wanting to pull a trailer in the future.

The AF design increases hoist speed for raising, loading, dumping and offloading containers. In studies, operators reported improvements of 25 to 35 percent in overall operation time, due to the single-rod type reeving cylinder and increased pump capacity. The hoist also allows a work-at-idle feature, used to reduce fuel use and emissions.

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CANADA FIBERS MRF – LARGEST IN NORTH AMERICA – USES BOLLEGRAAF EQUIPMENT FROM VAN DYK

The Bollegraaf baler’s single ram design uses a fraction of the power used by a traditional two ram baler and operates automatically without a dedicated operator. Bollegraaf balers provide flexibility–the baler can be instantly reset to switch between a variety of materials, including fiber, plastic containers, steel containers, and aluminum containers. It does not need an operator and, because of its unique features, requires far less maintenance than the recycler’s previous baler. What’s more, it runs on half the electricity cost.

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hen Canada Fibers built North America’s largest and most technologically advanced single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in Toronto, Ontario, it used Bollegraaf equipment supplied by Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. The plant owners say the new facility has the highest recovery rate in the industry, and is projected to process 350,000 tonnes per year. The goal is nothing less than a 95 per cent recovery rate of all commodities.

With double input lines, bag breaking technology, and multiple StarScreens® with unique new screening technology, Canada Fibers strives for high throughput and the highest possible recovery and purity of output, while reducing operational costs.

Specialized sorting equipment including ten Titech optical sorting units, 22 vacuum hoods (for the high film content in Toronto’s material), a Lubo PaperMagnet®, two PaperSpikes® (to sort OCC and boxboard), and glass breaker screens.

The facility’s throughput has been measured as high as 60 tonnes per hour, with Titech recovery units at the end of the system making sure that all commodities are recovered.

At the end of the system a Bollegraaf HBC 140F baler bales the paper grades, and a Bollegraaf HBC 120 compacts all containers into homogenous bales. Their pre-press flap, no-shear design allows less loading cycles and distributes the material evenly, resulting in denser bales. Visit vdrs.com With a recovery rate up to 98 per cent, the PaperMagnet® separates light 2D materials, such as paper, cardboard and foil from 3D and/or heavy materials, such as containers, bottles and stones. The PaperMagnet is perfectly suited to recover paper, cardboard and film from a polluted single- or dual-stream flow with great accuracy. The principal of separation is based on a belt conveyor that’s put under a steep angle and that creates a vacuum force at the belt surface. Due to the design of this vacuum conveyor, the light 2D materials are transported to the top discharge side of the conveyor. 3D parts roll or slide back to the bottom discharge side of the conveyor due to shape and/or weight. Other heavy materials discharge at the bottom (also due to weight). By adjusting the parameters, conveyor speed and airflow, an optimal adjustment can be achieved for different material inputs and separation qualities for the 2D or 3D fractions. Depending on the size and composition of the material input, recovery rates of 98 per cent can be established.

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The autosort features faster valves that sort waste with superior accuracy, less maintenance (with no external lamps or A/C unit), and the higher integration of hardware boosts reliability.

Flying BeamÂŽ technology also increases reliability and saves energy. This autosort is the first near-infrared (NIR) scan system not to require an external light source.

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feedstock and are committed to quality control, Visaisouk says. “We have to produce a material that meets the stringent requirements of the tire industry.”

AirBoss of Kitchener, a major custom rubber compounder in North America, has given a great deal of technical assistance and advice to help Tyromer develop its Tyromer Tire-Derived Polymer (Tyromer TDP). AirBoss might well be the first to introduce this product globally to its customers.

Recognizing the urgency of the global problem, Tyromer has adopted a business model that enables the company to make an impact as soon as possible. The owners decided to focus on joint ventures close to home, but to licence the technology globally as a way to ensure international markets have timely access to the solution. (Tyromer already has a licencee in France and by the end of the year expects to have signed five or six in various countries.)

“With this technology, Tyromer is doing something that has never been done before cost effectively,” says Ross Bradsen, Business Development Director and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Lead at Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).

“Scrap tires can now be diverted from landfill and reused instead of being burned or stockpiled, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental risk,” he says. “This technology also prevents us from having to wipe out precious rainforest to create rubber plantations because of humans’ insatiable demand for rubber.”

OCE co-invests in industry-academic collabHighest Efficiency Composting & Lowest Electrical Use orations to commercialize innovation originating in the province’s publicly-funded colleges, uniCombining BDP’s fully automated, agitated In-vessel Composting System (ICS) versities and research hospitals. The organization with BacTee’s ultra efficient, negative aeration/ventilation and odor control has supported the development of the technology systems maintains the highest quality compost with the lowest energy and worked with Tyromer to bring it to market. consumption and smallest facility footprint The energy cost savings associated with Tyromer TDP are significant, especially given that only about 20 per cent of the weight of the tire — the tread — is actually used.

“We throw away about 80 per cent of the original produce,” says Visaisouk. “If you go to a fancy restaurant and spent $100 on a meal and only eat 20 per cent of it, the waiter is going to ask you what’s wrong? People just throw the tire away without thinking.”

Given the ubiquity of rubber products, applications for Tyromer TDP are expected to extend well beyond the tire industry. This includes the automotive, mining and multiple manufacturing sectors that use billions of pounds of rubber.

The biggest challenge faced by the company, says Visaisouk, is skepticism that a small Ontario company has actually found a solution that has eluded large corporations.

“When you come up with a big solution like this, everyone doubts it can be done. But we’re Don Mathsen, Chief Engineer Richard Nicoletti, Product Manager not going to fight those battles. We work with Grand Forks, North Dakota Greenwich, New York willing partners to produce this material.”

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DIVERSION

by Daniela Siggia “Around 98 per cent of textiles are recyclable, yet 75 per cent of used textiles end up in landfill.”

Bundles of recyclable clothing and textiles: this sort of material has no place in a landfill.

Textile Recycling Textile Waste Diversion Inc.’s adventures in the world of cloth

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orth Americans discard an estimated 12 million tonnes of textiles each year, accounting for approximately five per cent of landfill volume. In Ontario alone the textile recycling industry is valued at an estimated one billion potential dollars. Yet, until recently, it has existed under the radar, despite its potential as an economic driver for communities.

Incomplete perspectives and sensationalized reporting has caused a cynicism among the general public toward the textile business that has, unfortunately, discouraged the recycling of textile waste; integral operators have not been embraced by communities. Misperceptions are one of the biggest obstacles the industry faces.

The US EPA has done extensive research on textile waste, since several American cities are following European Union goals of complete textile landfill bans in order to encourage innovation in the textile market. The EPA estimates the textile reclamation sector can employ 85 times more people than the practice of disposing these materials.

Canadian studies estimate that for every dollar invested in green technology, seven full-time and 15 indirect jobs are created, whereas landfilling and incineration create only one job for every dollar. Furthermore, municipalities benefit from reduced disposal costs. The private sector absorbs these, and generates sustained revenue through taxes, license fees and fines.

Textile recycling is good for the environment, too. Every tonne of textiles that’s reused prevents the release of 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Every pound of textiles made from recycled instead of raw material saves 717 litres of water. The US EPA says that if all the textiles were recycled that could be, it would equate to taking a million cars off the road. The environmental impact would be more significant than recycling glass.

Around 98 per cent of textiles are recyclable, yet 75 per cent of used textiles end up in landfill, where they resist decomposition and leach toxins.

Motivated by languishing textile waste diversion rates, some industry changes offer hope. For instance, new registered charities and community-driven for-profit companies have emerged that are changing the textile culture and adding value economically and environmentally.

One company, Textile Waste Diversion, won a 2013 Gold Operator Award from the Recycling Council Of Ontario (RCO) for its commitment to sustainability. The company is revolutionizing the industry by setting a new green standard and inspiring competitors to do the same. This community-driven for-profit company offers a refreshing transparency in an industry that has operated in the shadows in the past.

Textile Waste Diversion is also investing in green technology that will transform how the textile waste stream is managed.

According to the company’s internal statistics, 11 used clothing donation bins in a small but densely-populated urban neighbourhood can yield two tonnes of textiles annually. This is done by partnering with property and business owners willing to host community donation bins in support of the program.

Elevating the public discourse around textile recycling is essential in order to motivate property and business owners to get involved.

Textile Waste Recycling is now expanding into the industrial waste sector, providing sustainable local textile waste management solutions that honor sensitivities around vendor “brand value” protection.

European green technology and programs has been the inspiration for valuing local waste processing in this country.

The fact is, foreign markets are shrinking and local sustainable innovation is needed in order to keep this industry viable in a changing global economy.

The shift to sustainability in the textile reclamation sector will only reach its potential with public support. In order for municipalities across the country to maximize the benefits this community-building industry offers, local residents must be educated about the harmful effects of textiles in landfills, and the benefits of engaging with integral organizations (private and non-profit) doing good work. Positive public awareness and education around this issue must be a priority, as it is in Europe and the United States.

Canada must (and can) do better.

Daniela Siggia President of DS Environmental Consulting Ltd in Orangeville, Ontario. Contact Daniela at dsiggia@yahoo.com

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by Guy Crittenden “EBI owns 102 waste trucks and plans to eventually have its heavy vehicles operate on natural gas.”

EBI’s CNG trucks in front of the Berthierville subsidiary company EBI Environnement

Innovation in La Belle Province EBI Environnement Inc. embraces new technology, natural gas

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BI Environnement Inc. is a company that illustrates the evolution of traditional waste services into today’s higher-technology business.

A privately-owned family-run business since 1960, EBI was founded in Berthierville in Quebec’s Lanaudière region by Jean and Rolland Sylvestre as an integrated waste management company. The Sylvestre’s four sons now run the company, with Pierre Sylvestre as president, René as vice-president, Michel as CEO of a subsidiary company in Costa Rica, and Bernard as director of machinery sale/purchase.

EBI now has offices outside Berthierville, including Montreal, Joliette Sorel-Tracy and St-Thomas, Quebec. Operations include municipal and IC&I waste, and involve everything from waste pickup and sorting to salvage, recovery, recycling and product containment. The company has also branched into excavation services, snow removal, heavy machinery rentals, park planning and heavy vehicle mechanics.

Landfill and cogen plant Since 1978, EBI has operated Dépôt Rive-Nord — a technical landfill site in the Lanaudière Parc de technologies environnementales.

Company specialists apply the technical landfill techniques set out by the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement, de la Faune et des Parcs (MDDEFP). As soon as waste arrives on the site, it’s spread out in thin layers before being downsized by a compactor, then covered with a thick layer of sand.

The 65 hectare landfill site is surrounded by five square kilometres of protected area (eight times the landfill area itself).

A watertight, secure landfill like EBI’s naturally generates biogas for decades. Ten years ago EBI was the first Quebec company to capture and process this kind of biogas from its landfill site, producing enough energy to power 10,000 homes and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

Three hundred wells are linked to a powerful vacuum system through a network of approximately 20 kms of underground ducts. The biogas collects at a processing station that processed more than 7,000 sq. m. of biogas per hour which is then sent to Quebec consumers through the Gaz Métro distribution network.

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generation plant in Quebec, which produces no new greenhouse gas emissions. The plant produces two types of energy from the collected biogas: electricity and heat. For a 25-year period, the plant will generate some 9.4 Megawatts of electrical energy directed to the Hydro-Québec distribution network. Electrical energy is produced from seven generator sets, six of which are in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition to being used in the building, heat also warms heat the leachate water to increases wastewater processing efficiency. (Overall, an energy efficiency rate of 64 per cent is achieved with the cogeneration plant, 25 per cent higher than for a non-cogen plant.)

Transshipment centre & natural gas In 2011, EBI opened its new waste transshipment centre in MontréalEst. With four compacting systems and modern equipment, this is one of largest and best performing centres of its kind in North America.

EBI operates sorting centres as well as ecoparks in cooperation with

municipalities, where citizens can dispose unwanted items and household hazardous waste. All materials are classified and bundled except for glass, which is stored in containers. Everything is then shipped to processors to be given a second life.

EBI currently has 82 trucks that operate on natural gas including front-end loaders, side loaders, rear loaders as well as roll-off trucks and 10 fifth-wheel tractors.

Equipment also includes two public compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling stations with 300 hp compressors, as well as a slow refuelling system for EBI’s trucks. The company plans to add two more public stations in the coming months.

As noted, in 2003 EBI became the first Quebec company to capture biogas from its landfill site, convert it into natural gas and distribute it via TransCanada Pipeline’s network. In 2008 the company started to think about converting its fleet of trucks from diesel to natural gas. Economics was the main driver as natural gas is more affordable than diesel (See

Montreal fast refueling station, which has a similar fill time to that of diesel, is mainly used by clients.

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EBI’s subsidiary company, EBI Energy, collects biogas and transforms it into natural gas.

our supplement on natural gas vehicles in the February/March edition), but also because its use lowers greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition, EBI’s ability to generate this fuel itself made the decision even more logical for the company.

At the time there was very little information available and the company had to start a major research and development process. Analyses were completed and meetings were organized with the residuals management companies in the Inited States that had already started switching their fleets to natural gas.

Savings from natural gas None of EBI’s waste collection vehicles are CNG conversions; instead, the company relies on factory-built natural gas trucks. In the long term, it plans to have all its trucks operate on natural gas. EBI owns 102 waste trucks and plans to eventually have its heavy vehicles operate on natural gas, for a total of 400 vehicles with CNG.

The natural gas trucks are Peterbilt because, EBI says, “they are well-known trucks that have a good resale value while being very resistant.”

The trucks’ engines were bought from Cummins Westport — the only company that manufactures natural gas engines. The main body supplier is Labrie because of that company’s expertise in the natural gas area.

Fleet Manager Ghislain Lapointe, Fleet Manager, is happy with the adoption of CNG trucks.

“Most drivers are very satisfied with the performances of the engine, and also with the reduction in noise (fewer decibels), which the new trucks provide,” Lapointe says. “The filling method is also faster, not to mention that there is no smell of fuel anymore.”

Company President Pierre Sylvestre’s opinion is even more pointed.

“We will never purchase diesel trucks again,” Sylvestre says.

EBI already had experience with its landfill biogas facility that feeds natural gas into the pipeline network. It was a natural step to developed this expertise in the installation of refuelling stations; the company now offers diverse specialized services to different companies interested in switching to natural gas. Its own stations are connected to the Gaz Métro distribution network.

EBI has two types of refueling stations: slow refueling (which allows filling during the night) and fast refueling (which has a similar fill time to that of diesel). Slow refueling is mainly used for EBI’s waste collection trucks while the fast system is mainly used by clients.

A standard truck uses 200 cubic meters of natural gas per day, which corresponds to 40,000 cubic meters per year per truck.

Guy Crittenden is editor of this magazine. Contact Guy at gcrittenden@solidwastemag.com

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by John Nicholson “Rigid plastics represent one of the fastest growing segments of plastics recycling.”

Plastics Reuse & Recycling Innovation A look at JBI, Inc. and Entropex

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ntrepreneurs considering the commercial development of new plastics recycling technologies in Canada would be foolhardy if they ignored the affect China has on global markets. The global market for plastics recycling is estimated at $5 billion. Prior to last year, China was the dominant player as importer of approximately 70 per cent of the world’s plastic collected for recycling (based in information provided by UN Comtrade).

In 2013, Chinese authorities began a self-imposed crackdown on sub-standard waste imports into the country. The result of the new enforcement activities was seen in statistics supplied by China’s General Administration of Customs. For example, third-quarter data from 2013 shows a 35 percent decrease in waste plastics imports from the previous year.

The news from China may sound encouraging to Canadian-based plastics recyclers.

It’s also promising that only a small fraction of the world’s waste plastic is currently collected for recycling. In the United States, for example, 2012 data from the U.S. EPA shows that only one million tonnes of plastic was collected for recycling while 29 million tonnes was sent for disposal.

capacity to recover 50,000 tonnes per year of plastic that would otherwise end up in landfill.”

The future looks bright for Entroprex as rigid plastics represent one of the fastest growing segments of plastics recycling. According to Steve Russell, vice president of plastics for the ACC, rigid plastics recycling has nearly tripled since 2007.

JBI Plastics

A number of North American companies focus on turning waste plastics into fuel. JBI, Inc. is one such company. Founded in 2006, JBI currently has a facility in Niagara Falls, New York that converts waste plastic into fuel oil using a patent-pending technology referred to as Plastic2Oil™.

JBI trades on the OTC:QB with the symbol JBII. Reading the company financial reports shows that the business of turning waste plastic into fuel can be both a technical and financial challenge. The company did not show a positive net income for the 2010 through 2012 reporting years, but was able to increase revenue each of the past reporting years. Last autumn JBI closed its Thorold, Ontario Plastic2Oil facility as a cost-reduction measure.

Positive developments for JBI include Entropex promising developments in the supply of plasEntropex is a great example of a Canadian tics and encouraging 2013 third quarter results success story in plastics recycling. Headquaron fuel production volumes and cost of protered in Sarnia, Ontario, the company has reduction. Comments CFO Nicholas Terranova, cycled plastic since 1978.

“Our third quarter metrics show a step in the Entropex’s recycling process — called Entropex founders Keith and Kevin Bechard (Keith pictured right direction for JBI.” RigidReclaim™ — integrates plastics sorting, here) are committed to upcycling the mixed rigid plastics Prior to 2012, JBI’s business plan focused cleaning, processing. The key to the technol- they process into the highest level of newly manufactured on sales of fuel for revenue. Since that time, ogy, and what has made the company a suc- commodities. the company has focused on joint ventures and sales of its Plastic2Oil cess, is its ability to convert a commingled, contaminated mixed-rigid Processor system. The company has yet to announce the sale of a mawaste stream (types 1 through 7) into segregated, highly pure and comchine, but is in talks with various companies. mercially valuable resins.

It’s a common view amongst waste professionals that plastics recycThe process can handle up to five per cent impurities (i.e., metals, ling will continue to increase through the efforts of the industry associapaper, non-rigid plastic). The final product replaces virgin resin in a tions, governments, stewardship organizations and the general public. multitude of applications.

That’s good news for the plastics recycling industry. Whether new reThe company’s innovation and longevity has not gone unnoticed. In cycling facilities will be located in North America or elsewhere in the 2012 Entroprex won the Gold Award for Excellence in Waste Reduction world remains to be seen. from the Recycling Council of Ontario and also, last November, the Innovation in Plastics Recycling from the American Chemistry Council John Nicholson, M.Sc., P.Eng., is a consultant based in Toronto, (ACC).

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SPOTLIGHT

Give ’Em Heil A look at Environmental Solutions Group (ESG) and a tour of Heil’s truck plant in Fort Payne, Alabama

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n April 2, 2014, I joined the Heil 2014 media event, organized

by Heil’s Director of Marketing Ken Snover. After attending an informative dinner near the company’s headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, our group piled into a tour bus the next morning for the 45-minute drive to nearby Fort Payne, Alabama (home for the eponymous music band that shares the state’s name).

The day began with a morning conference room presentation in which various division heads from parent company Environmental Solutions Group (ESG) described Heil and its sister companies and their key products. Then we donned protective eye- and hearing-wear and headed onto the plant floor of Heil’s large waste and recycling truck fabrication plant.

The event offered an excellent chance to understand a major innovator in the waste and recycling equipment space.

INSIDE ESG

The front entrance of Heil’s truck plant in Fort Payne, Alabama

by Guy Crittenden

“Better weight distribution means less refueling, Cooper pointed out."

In a Heil conference room, ESG President Patrick Carroll spoke first.

Carroll, whose bearded appearance reminded me vaguely of British super-entrepreneur Richard Branson, described ESG’s “Team Terra” values and mission statement, centered on team building and entrepreneurial risk-taking.

“Have you every learned anything from doing it right the first time?”

Carroll asked, noting that mistakes were part of the innovation process.

“And we don’t sort out differences of opinion here via email, either,” he said while describing the company’s culture of idea-generating meetings, both formal and around the water cooler.

“The only thing we don’t tolerate is unethical behavior,” Carroll said, adding that one violation of that code and you’re gone.

Having visited different trade show booths of product lines that are now ESG divisions, it was interesting to learn from Carroll how the company came together just a few years ago, and how the divisions flow with one another.

The Heil Company (heil.com) was founded by Julius P. Heil in Milwaukee in 1901 as a welding company that soon found its way into refuse trucks and special waste equipment that are now sold in 150 countries. (Many vintage photos line the walls of Heil’s offices.)

In 2010 Heil was acquired by behemoth multinational engineering firm Dover Corporation (dovercorporation.com), which is active in 36 different markets and turns over $8 billion in annual revenues. Dover is a diversified global manufacturer that delivers innovative equipment and components through four major operating segments: Energy, Engineered Systems, Fluids, and Refrigeration & Food Equipment. Dover’s financial support allows Heil and its sister companies to “put their pedal to the floor” with new research and products.

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Leadership through the years (left to right): Julius P. Heil, Joseph F. Heil and Joseph F. Heil, Jr.

in 1993) joined Heil. In that year another company — Bayne (a lift systems company founded in 1968 and acquired by Dover in 2001) — joined in the newly-formed Environmental Solutions Group conglomerate.

Curotto-Can, founded in the 1990s, was acquired by ESG last year, and the company is working closely now with ZeroWaste Energy, LLC — a provider of European dry anaerobic digestion systems for organic

waste streams. Parts Central is another division that rounds out the ESG vision, offering quick supply of OEM parts for collection trucks to reduce downtime.

Whereas vertical integration is common in the services side of the waste industry, Dover/ESG’s interesting play vertically integrates the equipment and systems side.

“ESG operates as an independent, entrepreneurial business unit,” Carroll said. “We call it ‘winning through customers’” — the company’s slogan for listening carefully to customer needs, then innovating products to address those needs.

“We always start thinking in terms of ‘how does the customer benefit?’” Carroll says.

“That’s the starting point. If it doesn’t serve the customer we don’t invest or we might end up pushing something on the customer they don’t want.”

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ESG’S CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM From the presentations it was clear ESG is closing the equipment loop for customers in the municipal and IC&I waste and recycling services market. The divisions form a kind of circle in which all the equipment needs of a client can be met, starting with collection vehicles (Heil, Curotto Can, Bayne, Big Truck Rental), through recycling plants and equipment (BHS) and ending with organics processing (ZeroWaste Energy).

One of the most compelling parts of this circle is that organics received by ZeroWaste Energy plants can be converted into compost and CNG fuel for waste and recycling trucks. In other words, a waste services fleet can be fueled from the material it collects, freeing itself of the vicissitudes of oil and gas energy markets, while achieving a carbonnegative footprint.

Driving this loop is that ESG’s combination of systems saves customers money. Customers can buy or finance leading-edge equipment that achieves 80 to 90 per cent diversion from disposal, while actually lowering costs. CNG trucks, for example, reduce fleet operating costs by 20 to 30 per cent; add in other system components and efficiencies and ESG says customers typically realize potential savings of between $3 and $6 million per project.

MODULAR RECYCLING PLANTS An interesting equipment and systems offering from ESG is the Marathon Recycling Solutions materials recovery facility (MRF) delivered collaboratively with Bulk Handling Systems (BHS). The system offers a unique compact footprint 10 tonnes per hour residential single-stream MRF that’s great for smaller applications and can be a key component in reducing waste to landfill.

Smaller communities with tight budgets will find that financing options like leasing packages allow immediate positive cash flow when replacing antiquated equipment, and better revenues from the higher recovery of purer recyclable materials. Diversion rates of 40 to 60 per cent save money also by extending the life of local landfills. The MRFs incorporate a mix of automated and manual systems to diver different streams into bunkers. Automation can be increased via the use of sensors and other technology. The systems utilize modular cubic space efficiently.

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John Curotto, co-inventor of the Curotto-Can system, demonstrating the equipment on Heil’s new Odyssey automated front loader (AFL). Curotto drove tour participants in the truck, picking up and emptying recycling carts arranged around a large track. Participants had a chance to operate the joystick that dumps the can load into the top of the truck body.

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Anatomy of a Truck Plant A look inside Heil’s Fort Payne, Alabama operation Ken Snover (middle) guides participants in Heil’s 2014 media event. In this photo the group is in front of the truck chassis prep building where cabs and chassis of different types from different manufacturers are equipped with electronics and cables to match waste and recycling bodies being manufactured in an adjacent building. About a quarter of this building was destroyed last year by a tornado and since repaired. The company had operations up and running within 48 hours and met all customer delivery deadlines.

Welders work on a truck body on the initial fabrication and assembly line inside the plant, turning large sheets of steel that come in the main delivery door into a basic truck body within only a few hours.

Different truck bodies move down the line, where workers use hoists and chains to move items around. Although there is some robotics, unlike auto assembly plants with their conveyors and robots, Heil’s plant relies heavily on hands-on craftsmanship from a highly-trained workforce of 600 people within the plant.

Workers at each stage of fabrication conduct a quality check before the item moves to the next station, where another quality check is conducted before the item is accepted for further fabrication.

Hydraulics are also test early in the assembly process, before paint, so problems are detected and solved before the whole truck is put together.

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1. A view of the paint shop, with a spray booth open on the

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left, and closed on the right. Each truck body is prepped and painted with the basic colour of the customer’s fleet before being attached to the chassis.

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2. After painting and assembly of the truck body onto its specific chassis, each vehicle moves to an open area where specialists connect electrical systems and cabling.

This process is a marvel of logistics and just-in-time delivery. Only about a day or two’s parts are kept in the plant at any given time, with vendors responsible for supplying the right parts at the right time.

3. After each vehicle is painted it’s driven across the lot to a detailing building where the customer’s special paint stripes, decals and logos etc. are applied to the truck. A special environmentally-friendly coating is applied to the vehicle to protect it from any overspray during the detailing process, which washes away easily after everything is dry.

4. A finished truck for customer Republic Services parked on a hillside where all new vehicles sit once every last final touch has been put on the vehicle. Trucks in this position are now ready for delivery and highway driving.

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(above) A brand-new Odyssey truck with Curotto-Can attachment inside the Fort Payne plant. (above right & far left images) Looking at the CNG gas tanks installed inside the Odyssey’s tailgate, where they’re easy to fill and don’t add to the vehicle height (an important consideration for many customers).

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A BETTER TRUCK John Curotto — a fourth-generation hauler who invented the CurottoCan system — described the thinking behind Heil’s new Odyssey automated front-loader (AFL) truck — a lynchpin of ESG’s loop-closing strategy.

Clearly excited about the development of his “dream” collection vehicle, Curotto described the Odyssey as a “purpose built truck” designed bumper to bumper to incorporate features that bring a new level of performance and safety to customers. Curotto spoke of proactive engineering for the future, instead of what he calls “reactive engineering.”

The Odyssey solves many issues that arise when truck bodies re simply “add ons,” Curotto said. Instead, Heil’s AFL system integrates all its features into the vehicle, including a short wheel base that allows the AFL to perform well in cul-de-sacs. The short dump arm, at the front,

allows for alley collection and efficiency compared to side-loaders.

“We show the customer how to make more money,” Curotto said, outlining a rapid-fire list of efficiency gains that include energy efficiency and the cleanest collection in the market.

“Some programs are achieving a four per cent contamination rate, even in single stream,” Curotto said before launching into how profit can be maintained when programs switch from a 96 to 32 cart, and how the collection arm and Curotto-Can system lower cart loss and damage (which can run at 8 to 12 per cent in some jurisdictions) and save a city millions.

The Curotto-Can and AFL save program operators a lot of money in ways that streetwise John Curotto was happy to point out, essentially transforming a commercial waste vehicle into a residential powerhouse.

“In single stream programs many large items are set out that don’t fit in the recycling carts, like refrigerator boxes and so on,” Curotto said.

Side-loaders can’t pick these up, so operators often need “chaser trucks” to pick up the oversize loads: another expensive vehicle with drivers and salaries.

“Also, with a side-loader if there’s a problem with the arm, that truck asset is offline until the unit is fixed,” Curotto said. “The AFL allows

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ORGANICS TO CNG FUEL Eric Herbert, CEO of ZeroWaste Energy, LLC explained that his company is working closely with ESG in a business partnership designed to deliver the “Smartferm” anaerobic digestion (AD) system to customers of all sizes.

The licensing of the system, Herbert said, resulted from a long search for the world’s best organics processing technology, and uses a closely-controlled “dry” batch process that avoids the operator troubleshooting and downtime often associated with “wet” processes.

The system is as close as you can get to “plug and play” with AD processing: Smartferm doesn’t require specialized operators, and can be monitored remotely.

Smartferm modular, scaleable installations reduce fleet costs by generating the CNG to fuel the vehicles out of the organics they collect, while using about 10 per cent of the energy to power the facilities themselves.

“Unlike wet AD, which is more of a wastewater treatment plant approach, dry AD was specifically developed for solid waste and offers a better return on investment,” Herbert said, adding that the system can everything from process pristine food waste to the dirtiest organic fraction from a mixed waste MRF and generate clean gas and great compost, “which a wet system would not do.” He added that all the components are built in the USA so it’s not a matter of buying European plans and being told, “Have fun building it.”

Herbert referred to the plant the company developed for the City of San Jose, California that opened in November, 2013 and is the largest AD plant in the world. All piping and equipment for the plant was fabricated in an Alabama ESG plant where it was tested before assembly. The plant will process 90,000 tpy for the first phase and produces 1.6 MW of energy to get green energy credits. San Jose is considering using the plant to generate CNG in the next phase.

A new Smartferm plant will open in south San Francisco, California this summer, as well as one in Montgomery, Alabama that will convert 12,500 tonnes of organic waste to CNG for that city’s new vehicles.

change out of the front piece of equipment so the truck is back on the road quickly.”

Savings in fleet maintenance derive from the AFL’s use of pressure, flow and voltage technology similar to rear loaders, not a lot of new technology with computers, etc. This fits with most customers’ existing business model. Fleet standardization means a single platform and common parts, which helps maintenance crews control costs and keeping trucks on the road.

“Drivers also appreciate what we call ‘eyes forward safety,’” added Jayson Thorp, Product Manager for ESG Residential Clients, noting that with an AFL like the Odyssey the driver can usually remain in the cab and not have to continually look back or get out of the truck to operate a side arm. The Odyssey has improved ergonomics and the truck doesn’t rock back and forth, to the detriment of workers’ bodies. Plus a single multifunction joystick facilitates ease of driver training.

Where there may be up to seven proximity switches in most AFLs, the Odyssey uses just two sensors, which also eliminates cart damage.

There’s no need for operators to enter the hopper to retrieve lost carts, etc. There’s less to maintain, with no decel valves or proximity switches to maintain and adjust, and no Mac Air valves.

Another interesting feature is the Heil CNrG (pronounced “synergy”) compressed natural gas fuel delivery system that’s integrated into the vehicle tailgate. This means there are no visible tanks and — since they’re not on top of the truck — concerns about added height are avoided.

“Some customers can’t handle an extra foot in height,” said Andy Cooper, Product Manager for ESG Commercial Clients. “There’s less concern about overhead obstacles such as low-hanging tree branches, etc.” (This feature is available on the Half/Pack, Half/Pack Freedom, Odyssey HP and Odyssey HPF.) The system enables use of lower cost D-ring fall restraint systems, too.

Better weight distribution means less refueling, Cooper pointed out,

Street view of the Curotto-Can in operation, showing the Bayne lift arm grabbing a collection cart and tipping it into the can, which (when full) lifts over the front of the truck to dump its load into the truck body. The system brings commercial waste front-end loader efficiencies to residential waste and recycling collection.

and that the trucks have a greater range with their higher-capacity fast fill (an issue with CNG technology, that often utilizes slow overnight refueling, since compressed natural gas heats up quickly when forced rapidly through hoses.) The trucks can be fueled as fast as diesel and normally only have to refuel every other day.

“Customers save money because they can use existing CNG fillings stations,” Cooper said. “A customer with a small fleet of, say, ten trucks, can add one CNG truck without having to build a fill station.

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by Paul van der Werf “A multi-disciplinary approach is required to develop a holistic framework for food.”

The Thin Green Line “Food as food” versus “food as waste”

“ … I eat, like, maybe once a day. I know we can’t afford to get groceries every week.”

— A 26-year-old mother in London, Ontario

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n February 28 I attended an Ontario event presented by the London Community Foundation (lct.on.ca) to determine the feasibility of setting up a local Food Planning Council to implement London’s Food Charter, which envisions that city as a “food secure community.”

Our society has strange inconsistencies: We have an obesity epidemic while demand at food banks grows.

At the “Food Waste Management Solutions Workshop: Getting the Most out of Unavoidable Food Waste” hosted by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, on March 6, the Provision Coalition (provi-

sioncoalition.com) presented data that shows, for instance, that every year up to 40 per cent of food (estimated at $27 billion) is wasted from all sources in Canada.

This translates into about $2 per Canadian per day. We need to change how we produce, sell and consume food to reduce this waste, and the waste management industry can play a role. We need a “green line” to demarcate “food as food” versus “food as waste.” (See diagram.)

The waste management industry benefits from food crossing the green line, which conflicts with the need societally to use as much as possible to feed people.

The diagram shows, in general terms, the path of food from production to sale and consumption and the opportunities for food to cross the green line and become a waste, which must then be managed as such. It also highlights the three key opportunities (green arrows), which are exercises in economic and social prudence, to avoid this green line. The economic and social benefit of food decreases while environmental impact increases from the top to the bottom of the diagram.

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O R G A N I C M AT T E R S Beyond the green line On the waste side of the green line are the various familiar processes via which food waste is normally managed. Some of these can capture energy and return organic matter and nutrients back to the soil. Life-cycle assessment can determine, case by case, the benefits of each process to help waste generators determine the best management method.

Keeping food on the “edible” side of the green line really represents waste reduction. This is where the conflict lies. Consumer culture tells us we can always buy more things, including food. We overlook the durability (i.e., shelf life) of food, often throwing items out that are just fine.

We forget that “best before” dates don’t mean “worst after.” We obsess about liability.

Should it be left to food producers, retailers and consumers to work all this out? Some think so. Yet the waste management industry is right at the green line between “food as food” and “food as waste” and could help reduce what ends up in landfill.

the production, sale and consumption of food to prevent it crossing the “green line.” This includes such diverse sectors as agriculture, transportation, retailers, consumers and the waste management industry.

Food’s greatest economic, environmental and social benefit is achieved when it enters someone’s mouth. We have a responsibility to help direct more of it there.

Paul van der Werf is President of 2cg Inc. in London, Ontario. Contact Paul at paulv@2cg.ca

Solutions Two key areas need to be addressed. The first is to properly quantify just how much food waste is generated along each part of the supply chain.

The second is to identify what is now considered “food waste” along the lines of what is edible versus that which has passed that point.

As I listened to the Provision Coalition’s presentation it occurred to me that the authors are using largely “top-down” data (i.e., created largely from interviews and desktop research) to make their estimates. There are obvious gaps in the data.

Conversely, the waste management industry has been developing its own “bottom up” estimates. As I discovered while completing the 2014 Ontario Organic Waste Report there continue to be considerable data gaps, particularly for IC&I waste. The gaps can be closed by taking primary waste composition data (from waste audits) and rationalizing it through the modeling of this data.

Much of this data is available, although in disparate places. The model that needs to be created to rationalize this data is pretty straight forward. Ultimately this “bottom-up” data needs to be conjoined with the “top down” data to complete the estimate.

While refining the estimate of food waste generation we must ask (and quantify): What part of food that currently crosses the green line can be pulled back and used for its intended purpose? This can be used to ultimately direct more edible food to those who need it and also improve our grasp of true market opportunities for waste diversion.

The London Community Foundation event revealed that a multi-disciplinary approach is required to develop a holistic framework for

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by Diane Blackburn “A grain bag, for example, is 250 feet long and produces 270 lbs. of plastic waste.”

Bale wrap in the field.

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ld MacDonald had a farm… those familiar lyrics from a folk tune became a timeless nursery rhyme circa 1917. While nursery rhymes evoke images of bucolic harmony, the reality of farm life is anything but idyllic. Farming is a tough business.

The evolution of farming practices has also meant changes in the wastes that a farm generates. Nowadays, there are plenty of urban-looking wastes stacking up behind the barn, and many of those wastes are plastic.

Plastic is used in every aspect of farming operations, be it fertilizer jugs or ground cover, and contamination makes it very difficult to recycle. And so another “farm tradition” comes to the fore: burning. This disposal method is illegal in most jurisdictions, but it’s an easy way to get rid of waste when there are no programs for reuse or recycling.

Loose (before baling) and after baling.

Burning is not a conscientious choice, but in the absence of stewardship programs, it’s cheap, hard to detect, and therefore still present in the agricultural community.

The champion of sustainability that now invites farmers to change traditional behaviors is a national organization known as CleanFARMS, headquartered in Toronto but making its influence felt from coast to coast. In 2012 CleanFARMS won the Ontario Minister’s Award for Environmental Excellence and in 2013 the Gold level achievement for Program Operator in the RCO annual awards program.

CleanFARMS is a national, not-for-profit industry stewardship organization committed to environmental responsibility through the proper management of agricultural waste, with the emphasis on inorganic wastes.

So what are these wastes, and what volumes are we talking about?

First off, there’s agricultural film: silage cover, bale wrap, greenhouse film, trip tape and twine. Next there are grain bags, seed bags, lumber wrap and poly woven bags. Finally, pesticide and fertilizer containers as well as their obsolete contents, and animal health waste (meds and sharps).

CleanFARMS already runs successful programs for a couple of troublesome wastes, but is striving to bring more high-volume wastes into the mix, which requires new programming and the cooperation of all the players that are affected.

In 2013 Ontario Farmers returned more than 114,000 kilos of obsolete pesticide and 4,400 kilos of animal health medications for safe disposal under a CleanFARMS program that rotates through Canada every three years and which is a joint effort with Canadian Animal Health Institute.

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Alberta can also take a bow for recycling 35,800 kilos of obsolete pesticide in its designated jurisdictions. Since the program took hold in Alberta in 2002, that province has returned 305,000 kilos of this hazardous waste for safe destruction.

In conjunction with the safe disposition of the actual pesticides and fertilizers, CleanFARMS runs a program to return the 23 litre (or smaller) plastic jugs in which the product is sold, thereby reducing the incidence of burning. In the 25 years since this take back program was launched, 96 million jugs have been returned across Canada.

CleanFARMS members include such giants as Cargill, Bayer Crop Science, Crop Life (CleanFARMS corporate parent), Dow Agro Science, Agromart Group, AgraCity and a host of others. In the org chart of agriculture, farmers are often characterized as “producers” which is not accurate. Farmers are consumers of products created and sold by the aforementioned corporations. They are the rural equivalent of John and Jane urban dweller, looking for better recycling options, but on an industrial scale. A grain bag, for example, is 250 feet long and produces 270 lbs. of plastic waste. One bag!

At a recent waste stewardship workshop hosted by CleanFARMS, all the issues were put on the table and a blueprint for moving forward was facilitated. Bringing a plan to fruition will take time, goodwill and common sense processes that serve all parties. The best solution, it was concluded, was market driven, devoid of regulatory imposition, while

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With gritty tenacity, CleanFARMS will play a key role in making these early program pillars a reality because it has the entrenched expertise and experience to keep all Canadian farmers true stewards of the land.

Diane Blackburn is Events Manager for the Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) and produces the RCO’s annual Waste Minimization Awards. This column regularly profiles finalists and winners from that awards program, and others across Canada. Contact Diane at events@rco.on.ca

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by Rob Cook “It will be a challenging year for both municipalities and the private sector.”

Setting the Agenda OWMA 2014 Annual Conference & AGM

The well-attended conference and (inset) OWMA President & Chairman of the Board Cal Bricker.

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he Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) recently hosted over 140 members and guests at the Annual General Meeting in Toronto, featuring conference presentations, networking events and keynote political speakers.

The conference program included important issues of interest to the waste sector such as: “The Circular Economy”; “CSA Recycling Guidelines”; “MPAC Landfill Assessment”; “Bill 91 — A Status Report & Prognosis” and “Waste Management Master Plans — A Municipal Experience.”

The presentations were excellent, the questions were challenging, and the discussion was lively. Keynote political speakers included NDP Environment Critic Jonah Schein and the Honorable Jim Bradley, Ontario’s Minister of the Environment, both speaking about recycling and the way forward in Ontario.

The day-long conference style program included both a business meeting for members and a gala dinner featuring a speech from the environment minister.

The business meeting confirmed the following new members of the Board of Directors for 2014: Denis Goulet (Miller Waste Systems) and Ed Glavina (Safety-Kleen Canada Inc.). The outstanding contributions of two directors not seeking re-election were acknowledged throughout the day.

“Both Nigel Guilford of Miller Waste Systems and Pam McAuley of Hotz Environmental Services Inc. have served the membership and

waste sector well for many years and will be missed,” said Cal Bricker, OWMA President & Chairman of the Board.

The following individuals were elected or re-elected to the Board of Directors for a two year term: Joey Neuhoff, Covanta; Paul van der Werf, 2cg Inc.; Jim McKay, HDR; Denis Goulet, Miller Waste Systems; Norm Lee, Regional Municipality of Peel; Michael Cant, Golder Associates; Jay Stanford, City of London; Dan Pio, BFI Canada; Ed Glavina, Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. and Francis Veilleux, Bluewater Recycling Association. They join 11 other Directors completing the first year of a two-year term.

The 2014 OWMA Officers were confirmed as: • Cal Bricker: Chairman/President • Jake Westerhof: Secretary/Treasurer • Mike Watt: Immediate Past Chairman • Rob Cook: Chief Executive Officer Chair Cal Bricker set the agenda for 2014 by outlining the OWMA strategic objectives and action plans for the important issues and challenges of the year ahead. It will be a challenging year for both municipalities and the private sector and throw in two elections (municipal and possibly provincial) and the challenges become more significant and unpredictable.

Visit owma.org Rob Cook is CEO of the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) in Brampton, Ontario. Contact Rob at rcook@owma.org

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by Rosalind Cooper, L.L.B.

Recycling Regs in BC and Ontario BC packaging and printed paper EPR Multi-Material BC (MMBC) has announced that a new organization has been selected to manage the post-collection system for MMBC’s residential packaging and printed paper recycling program, which takes effect on May 19, 2014. The new organization — Green by Nature EPR — was founded by three companies: Cascades Recovery, Emterra Environmental and Merlin Plastics.

Under British Columbia’s Environmental Management Act, the recycling regulation requires that every producer of residential packaging and printed paper products that intends to sell, offer for sale or distribute products to residents in the province must, as of May 2014, operate, or be a member of, an approved plan for end-of-life management of their products. MMBC is the industry-led stewardship organization responsible for the recycling program. Its plan was approved by the government in April of 2013. Under the plan, businesses that sell residential packaging and printed paper to residents are financially responsible for covering the costs of the recycling program. Industry members of MMBC, called stewards, will pay fees to support the program.

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“The new organization, Green by Nature EPR, was founded by three companies.”

will not have to provide detailed reporting. Small businesses can be exempted from reporting and recycling costs if their annual revenues do not exceed $1,000,000 and if they supply less than one tonne of residential packaging and printed paper per year to residents. (For more about the program, see the “Blog” column in this edition, page 46.)

Ontario standards for recycling vehicles, aggregates The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has released a technical discussion paper that proposes certain requirements be implemented to create new environmental standards for end-of-life vehicle processing.

There are some 700 end-of-life vehicle processing facilities in Ontario with approximately 600,000 vehicles retired each year, and the environment ministry seeks to ensure consistency and sound environmental operation of all facilities.

The proposed standards require that all end-of-life vehicles have their contaminants removed prior to crushing or shredding. Contaminants include a wide variety of materials, from fuels and lubricating oils to lead acid batteries and parts containing mercury. Under the standards, a notice for the vehicle (containing the name and address of the facility at which the vehicle had its contaminants removed, the date of the removal

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Eligible end-of-life vehicle processing sites will be permitted to register on the Environmental Activity and Sector Registry, instead of requiring an individual environmental compliance approval, provided operations at the site meet specified eligibility criteria. One of those criteria are that the facility does not engage in waste management activities that involve disposal of waste by depositing into land or thermal treatment.

In addition, the facility can only receive and manage certain types of waste, namely: end-of-life vehicles or their parts; metals; refrigerators, freezers and other kinds of appliances, lawn mowers, etc. The facility cannot accept or manage any PCB, radioactive or biomedical waste and must not use any shredding or rotary shearing/shredding equipment.

The ministry has recommended phase-in of the standards over two years to provide adequate time for industry to adapt to the new requirements.

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has posted its response to the Standing Committee on General Government’s Report on the Review of the Aggregate Resources Act. In 2012, the Standing Committee was directed by the government to develop recommendations to strengthen the Aggregate Resources Act. In October of 2013, the committee tabled a report containing some 38 recommendations directed at doing so.

The MNR has outlined its approach to removing barriers, and for creating incentives to increase the use of recycled aggregate materials. This approach includes an assessment of the cumulative impact of aggregate operations on water resources and increasing the transparency of aggregate operations (by making information accessible to the public).

The government also focused on the collection of new data to improve rehabilitation efforts, particularly on agricultural lands. The intent is to take a collaborative approach to increasing and standardizing fees. The government also indicated its intent to review the application process for new pits and quarries, and changes to existing sites.

Prior to implementation, the government intends to hold discussions with key stakeholders.

Rosalind Cooper, LL.B., is a partner with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in Toronto, Ontario. Contact Rosalind at rcooper@tor. fasken.com

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Company Page # 2gc/Waste Management Consulting Services . . . . . . . . 44

Company Page # Liebherr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

BDP Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Machinex Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Big Truck Rental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Mack Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Bulk Handling Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Municipal Waste Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Ontario Waste Management Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Chevy Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Paradigm Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Conestoga-Rovers & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Scotts Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

EBI Natural Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Trux Route Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Environmental Business Consultants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Union Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Environmental Solutions Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Eriez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Walinga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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by Allen Langdon “The total number of BC businesses that are expected to register with MMBC is approximately 2,000 to 3,000.”

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s Multi-Material BC enters the final days of preparation for the ers in recycling in their local communities to be part of the integrated launch of its program on May 19, 2014 the organization has reprovince-wide MMBC post-collection system. The system will employ ceived its fair share of media coverage prompted by detractors of 570 British Columbians and bring $32 million in new investment to the the program. While a few groups driven by their own particular interests province. have made a last-ditch effort to try and derail the program, behind the Through all of this activity, MMBC is part of the evolution of recycscenes the planning is full steam ahead and on track as staff put the ling in BC and the latest among more than 20 EPR programs introduced final pieces in place to establish Canada’s first industry-managed and in BC over the past two decades that have seen industry assume responfinanced extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for packaging sibility for end-of-life management of items such as beverage containand printed paper. ers, electronics, paint, used oil, tires and batteries. The intention of EPR One of these steps was the announcement that MMBC would introis to encourage producers to make and sell products that are more durduce curbside recycling to two of North and Central BC’s most popuable, more environmentally sustainable, and ideally never become waste lous communities, Prince George and Quesnel. This final addition to at the conclusion of their use. the collection network means MMBC will provide recycling collection BC’s Recycling Regulation shifts responsibility for managing resiservices to 1.25 million BC households in 88 communities, beginning dential recycling of packaging and printed paper from taxpayers to the in May. It also added to the number individual businesses that produce it, of communities where curbside colsuch as retailers and manufacturers. lection is possible for the first time Rather than businesses individually through MMBC’s packaging and assuming the costs and complexities printed paper stewardship program for of creating a system of collection and areas such as Terrace, Smithers, 100 recycling, MMBC was formed to act Mile House, 108 Mile House, Kaslo, on behalf of its members, to share and Nakusp. All will, for the first time, costs and capture the economies of have their recyclables collected at the scale necessary to operate an efficient curb. program.

Adding these communities was Despite this shift in responsibila significant milestone in MMBC’s ity, the program`s actual impact on goal of increasing access to curbside small businesses (a sector that has recycling across the province. It’s also expressed concern about the program) evidence of MMBC taking solid first is expected to be limited. The total Photo courtesy of of the Ridge Meadows Recycling Society, District of Maple steps towards achieving the govern- Ridge, BC. number of BC businesses that are exment-mandated 75 per cent recovery pected to register with MMBC is aprate for packaging and printed paper — a significant increase over the proximately 2,000 to 3,000 — a fraction of the approximately 385,000 current 50-53 per cent province-wide rate. Additionally, the MMBC probusinesses in BC. This is, in large part, because most small businesses in gram will enable many BC residents to recycle new categories of packthe province do not supply packaging and printed paper to residents, and aging not commonly included in current curbside, multi-family building therefore are not affected by the Recycling Regulation. In addition, the or depot recycling programs. The materials include milk cartons, foam BC Ministry of Environment recently announced its intention to exempt packaging, plant pots, aluminum foil packaging, certain types of plastic very small local businesses from the Recycling Regulation. film packaging, and drink cups.

So, as the program is launched on May 19, MMBC’s focus remains Another key development was the selection of Green by Nature on working with its members and partners to reach the environmental as MMBC’s post-collection processor, that will manage the processgoals as prescribed in the Recycling Regulation, divert packaging and ing and marketing of approximately 185,000 tonnes of packaging and printed paper from landfills, and build an effective and efficient recycprinted paper material after it’s been collected from curbside houseling system that can serve as a model in North America. holds, multi-family buildings and depots across the province. This new organization was founded by long-standing BC recycling companies Allen Langdon is Managing Director of Multi-Material British Cascades Recovery Inc., Emterra Environmental and Merlin Plastics Columbia (MMBC) in Vancouver, BC. Contact Allen at Green by Nature will engage more than 20 subcontractors that are leadalangdon@multimaterialbc.ca 46 www.solidwastemag.com April/May 2014

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