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there's a move in the mumctpal waste sector to find newâ€"ways of making money for towns and cities by encouraging companies to tap into the value of what society is thnmrmg away. We more waste a municipality can sell. the less it has to spend of taxpaycr dollars t6 manage garbage. Hopefully consumcm would buy m as well. wading to higher lecycling rates â€" relieving the pressure on Iandfilk But if households started raiding more. municipali~ ties could strike deals with a neiv breed of cntrcpreneurs who understand garbage equals dollars. Thirty to 40 per cent of North Amen‘can naryck’d materiaLs am: going m China. India and South America. where demand is growing- “wre is a booming market for aluminum cans â€" which fetch the Westprice of all materials â€" as well as PET and HOPE plastics Muir said. b To mad the first two pans of the Memland special report. visit yorkregionxom , ‘ Peel sells much of the material that comes to this plant in Brampton to China and the United States, where it is reused in new prodm‘ts such as aluminum cans m ptastic bottles. The legion's total take is‘ about $10 million a year. ‘ ‘Ihe North Nuancan waste stream contains about $8 billion to $10 billjt'm worth at valuables. said Wes Muir of Waste Management Canada. a private recycling and disposal company. ' "WWW WOW A tattered basketball shoe. a Donald Duck plastic toy. VHStapesandadmmpéonsmpuophysitmemdma sorting mom ,al Camda’s lamest waste recovery plant. These are some of the more unusual items setters have pulled off pmduction llnm of the Material Reoov; cry Facility (MRI?) in Brampton. where Reel Region's residential blue box items arrive to be separated. sorted and bundled. In the 11.8.. for example. Texas-hm ’I‘errabon is developing technology that converts organic materials and commercial food wastes into Organic sizle which la they made into a high-amne- gasoline. “way are using what's in our green bins In a world ofdlminishlng landfill spam. ilfs important to find sustainable ahemau'ves in dealing with waste. said Maioolm McNem. the chief financial omcer. m m logy em 7' "Bxiiy'bfiic'muauom W "n scale but when commercially ready has the potential to pro- cessmomnnesofmwasteada‘yw mewpeofsystem “If you stand around here long will see all sons 9! Peel waste supervisor Kevin Mehlcn- hacher said. .1 Only about 45 per cent, of recyclable items fmm households across Ontario ever make it to one of these plants Mom than half of munician garbage goes to landfills instead A major challenge for municipalities is finding ma: ms for recyclable materials. “Recycling has been amund for three but the problem is that end markets have not been estab- lished for many materials." Mr. Muir said. TURNING GARBAGE INTO MONEY MAKING WASTE INTO GASOLINE §.O$3§.3.Zoq?§- 95 3010: 5.81:? 2d mowâ€"u 8 075m. :3? Bi moan. >33?! .354... 93:23 w .33 an! Vangâ€"$33353... sang? «is... Oman-E... . that could some day pay to get Ontario's organic waste 'lhe push to View wasleusa rcsmuce “- mislead ofasa problem â€"â€" has also seen companies convert trash into°new products. a model known as up-(z'ydr'ngr , r Toronto's Thermal Green Innovative [ham ’l‘echnoknp‘es a byproduct uf the numufauurer EF. Wake-r Inc. to develop pmd- ucts such as holding ponds for irrigation, synthetic turf. landfill cowrsandhnersmsmllasgrwnroofs. . Other companies are taking regular household consumer waste and flipping it. Tetracyrle. founded in 200! by Princeton University freshman Tum Salty. produces mom than 1500 prod- But thcsg industries are m their infancy and municipalities need solutions now. incineration may be a mute mom communi- ties are willing to take. said Uniwrsity of Toronto pmfessor Philip They are made. in pan from the mamâ€"density polyethylene foam We generated by Iii-f Walter [or a range of industrial prod~ nus. Thcrma bi an example of how waste thafi currently being landfifled could he profitably ucts. ranging from dufiel bags made out of old KooI-Aid and Del Monte drink pouches to park benches and tables made from plastic coan Only about I per bent of waste in Ontario in. incinerated now. me only msidemial mum-tutor is the Angoan Powcr Energy BY (AMY What's PAP£ R AND PACKAGIsz‘How muéfism SOME STEWARDSHIP DNTANO. 2009 “GUNS L: Fku lath in future TRASH TROUBLES GlAP'lIIG VII“ 00. GAIIAGI Plpcv‘bucd pat Wang HUMCIPIUTIES NEED SOLUTIONS NOW Alummum pat tag: 09 A ulllOubub "Inn IUD-V Ha mt packaqmg omnnpptm space 5nd autoan Pnnted papa recycled and what‘s 615902;! of namely )IR\$ “(WEN Cl '0'“? Donald Campbel. Than: Charmmh‘ Dean Tweed L-‘THE HAMILTON SPfCTATOR This is done by forcing manufacturers to mdo-ugn prndlu'ts \ they can be reused or requiring manufactunrrs and husmvssvx I pay a ywemmcm-impnsed fee on hani-mâ€" n‘t'yrlv pmdm Ix Ontario could legislate PPR polities similm In the Yumpcnn Union. which fode pmducers to make cars and packaging 1am” to take apart in pious to be reused. But there is no move toward that kind of poliw in Omaha at the moment. Mr. Winfield said, From Waste Facility in Brampton. The plan! burns about Em tonnes of mostly midcntial waste and generates nmc megawatts of continuous energy -â€" enough to power 5.0001061“) hnnws. Advocates say incineration is _an acreptablc uylutmn lxx‘uuw ll germ-rates energy fmm matmal that would nlht-rm'w hu- Iamt filled. Critics say incinerators cause air pollution and that the n u N m1m5mu'mt materials to hum ‘â€" su‘rh a". paper and pLNk â€"-~ are also highly recyclable. “I am. not Saying (incineration) Is a good Idea. but its maybe something you Will mom of.” Mr. Byvt added. whmv morth is municipal waste managevmm. Experts say one of the moss! Important mlutmm m {inlays landfill problems is. In {our manularmrvrs In (‘n'uu‘ mun- rm» able products. an approach known as mm'ndul pmduu't n-spnn» sibilit‘y (EPR). “liPR is efl'ectively making what goes imu the mm.» \tnum m.) pmbiem of the people who put the products imu the llldlh't m the firm place." York Univetsity environmental sludws prul'cwn Mark Winfield said. '