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The Green Lane landfill is a landfill in Southwold, Ontario, Canada, southwest of London. It is owned and operated by the City of Toronto as Toronto’s main landfill, located 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of the city. It operates a leachate collection system and an on-site leachate treatment plant.
Toronto Solid Waste Management Services is the municipal service that handles the transfer and disposal of garbage as well as the processing and sale of recyclable materials collected through the blue box program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It serves approximately 870,000 homes and non-residential establishments. [1]
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%. The city is also transitioning into a new cart system rather from the blue bag system to dispose of waste. [15]
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 ...
It was incorporated as The Rubbish Boys Disposal Service, then in 1998 with its current name. [3] The first permanent franchise opened in 1997 in Victoria, British Columbia, [4] and a second in Toronto in 1998. In 2000, the first franchise opened outside Canada, in Portland, Oregon. [5] The chief operating officer is Erik Church. [6]
A sign notifying visitors that the site is closed. The Keele Valley landfill was the largest landfill in Canada and the third largest in North America [1] during its operation. . It was the primary landfill site for the City of Toronto and the regional municipalities of York and Durham from 1983 until 2002, and was owned and operated by the City of Toronto.
On January 1, 2019, the City of Edmonton officially annexed 8,260 ha (82.6 km 2; 31.9 sq mi) from Leduc County and the City of Beaumont, increasing the city's area to 767.85 km 2 (296.47 sq mi), with discussions of annexing an additional 2,830 ha (28.3 km 2; 10.9 sq mi) of Edmonton International Airport land still ongoing.
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 ...