Winnipeg, MB - Members of the public are invited to an open house to learn about the new 4R Winnipeg Depot and other enhancements at the Brady Road Resource Management Facility (Brady Landfill). The open house, a drop-in format, is Thursday, January 23, 2014, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the St. Norbert Community Centre, 3450 Pembina Highway. Information will be available on developments to help shift the primary focus from landfilling to recycling, including recent upgrades, improvements scheduled for this year and plans for the future.
Highlights of improvements over the last two years include a new compost pad to turn the yard waste from the seasonal curbside collection program into thousands of cubic metres of nutrient-rich compost, and a new system to capture and flare landfill gases, which helps to reduce landfill and reduce the annual greenhouse gas emissions from the landfill.
This summer, a two-year pilot program will begin composting about 20 per cent of Winnipeg’s biosolids (nutrient-rich by-product of sewage treatment) in a new $7 million complex, and Winnipeg’s first 4R Winnipeg Depot is scheduled to open this fall.
The 4R Winnipeg Depot is one of the programs in the Council-approved Garbage and Recycling Master Plan designed to reduce garbage and increase recycling. The depot will be a convenient “one stop shop” where residents can drop off materials that can be recycled, reused, composted, or resold. It will have three distinct drop-off areas - FREE-cycle Row, FEE-cycle Row, and Garbage Disposal.
FREE-cycle Row will accept all the recyclable items that are managed by the City of Winnipeg (e.g., curbside collection, recycling depots), and Producer Responsibility Organizations (e.g., scrap tires, household hazardous waste, electronic waste).
For $5.00 per load (less than â� tonne), FEE-cycle row will accept materials such as brick, concrete, ceramics/porcelain, tree wood waste, lumber, scrap metal, major appliances and oversized rigid plastic (e.g., patio furniture). There is a charge for these items because they are not supported by the Producer Responsibility Organizations. The fee is designed to cover the costs to manage the materials.
Garbage Row will contain drop-off bins for materials that can’t be recycled, composted, resold or reused and will be the permanent disposal area for small loads of garbage.
Long term plans include a new larger facility to process all the recyclable materials, more than 50,000 tonnes per year and growing, from blue recycling carts and a green business park, which will host companies that reclaim and reuse materials that would otherwise be buried in the landfill (e.g., electronic waste).
Members of the public that are unable to attend the open house can find more information and provide feedback by Friday, February 14, 2014:
- by commenting on the City’s website at wwdengage.winnipeg.ca
- by email at wwdfeedback@winnipeg.ca
- by mail to City of Winnipeg, Water and Waste Department, 1199 Pacific Ave, Winnipeg MB, R3E 3S8, Attention: Brady and 4R Depot Consultation