Approximately 90 per cent of items placed in blue boxes in Greater Sudbury end up shipped to markets down south to be recycled.
The request for information came in response to the city’s reinvigorated push for people to divert waste from municipal landfill sites as part of the city’s Sustainable Waste Strategy. Waste diversion from landfill sites is an ongoing goal, with the city’s Community Energy and Emissions Plan calling for 90-per-cent solid waste diversion by 2050.
“It’s excessively expensive to source a new landfill, and whether we’d get ministry approval to open up a new landfill is another question.” The Recycling Centre includes labour-intensive manual sorting along conveyor belts, which don’t allow much room for additional manual work such as cleaning cans and opening bags.
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