$30 Million Retrofit for Ontario Recycling Facility

06 February 2012

Houston, Texas based Waste Management is to build a single-stream recycling centre in Cambridge, Ontario, that will process up to 550,000 tonnes of material a year.

The company said that it has already acquired the property and existing plant and will now begin a major $30 million retrofit of what it claimed will be the largest private-sector recycling facility in the province.

According to the company, the Cambridge facility, scheduled to begin operations later this year, will use advanced technology that includes magnets, screens and optical scanners to separate, sort and process a variety of materials including C&S waste, residential and commercial cardboard, paper, glass, plastics and metals.

The company said that the new facility will also process e-waste, batteries and lightbulbs.

Waste Management claimed that the single-stream recycling facility will eliminate the need for customers to separate recyclable materials prior to collection, making it easier for customers to recycle and often leads to an increase in recycling of 20% to 30%.

The company also said that the 126,000 square foot (11,700 square metre) facility will create approximately 80 local jobs and is one of a number of projects that it is undertaking in Ontario.


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