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By the later 20th Century Toronto and previously Metro Toronto have used a number of sites mostly close to the city to handle solid waste collected: Keele Valley Landfill - former landfill owned and used by Metro Toronto from 1983 (Toronto since 1998 to 2002) to deal with waste from all municipalities that now make up Toronto. Now sits idle ...
By the time the Keele Valley site closed at the end of 2002, the city had made a new deal, to ship its garbage by truck to Carleton Farms Landfill in Sumpter Township, Michigan, United States. Issues at the Canada–United States border and opposition from residents in Michigan prompted the need to look for alternate sites or expand the city's ...
GFL Environmental waste bin. GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.Founded in 2007, GFL operates in all provinces in Canada and much of the United States, and currently employs more than 20,000 people. [2]
In 1985, Laidlaw won the bid for recycling in the City of Mississauga and introduced the second commercial blue box program in Ontario in June 1986, the largest recycling effort in North America. Between 1997 and 1999, Laidlaw, Inc. exited the solid waste business after incurring heavy losses through its investments in Safety-Kleen and ...
Edmonton started their curbside recycling program in 1988. [13] In 2021, Edmonton transitioned from a bag to cart system for garbage and food waste collection. [14] On September 10, 2020, the Edmonton city council approved a 25-year waste strategy to reduce the landfill waste by 90%.
City 37,645 35,766 2018 Y St. Albert: City 68,232 66,082 2018 Y Stony Plain: Town 17,993 Y Strathcona County: Specialized municipality 99,225: Y Sturgeon County: Municipal district 20,061 Y Sundance Beach: Summer village 42 N Thorsby: Town 967 N Wabamun 133A and 133B: Indian reserve 1,001: N Warburg: Village 676 N Total Edmonton CMA : 1,418,118
Built in 1999, the Edmonton Composting Facility was the largest of its kind in North America, [4] both in volume and capacity. At 38,690 square metres (416,500 square feet) in size it was also the largest stainless steel building in North America [5] and could process 200,000 tonnes (220,000 tons) of residential waste and 25,000 tonnes (25,000 long tons; 28,000 short tons) (dry) of biosolids ...
EPCOR Utilities Inc., formerly known as Edmonton Power Corporation, is a utility company based in Edmonton, Alberta. EPCOR manages water, wastewater, natural gas, and electricity distribution systems in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia , and Ontario , and the American states of Arizona , New Mexico , and Texas . [ 4 ]