We're totally funded by our customers, who
are the residents of P.E.I., and I don't mind sharing that we charge each islander $205 to collect curbside waste, compost, and recyclables on an annual basis. For that $205 we recycle all the materials we can. We send some to an energy-from-waste facility where we can incinerate safely. The materials we can't send there go into the one remaining landfill that we have.
That landfill is not simply a hole in the ground. It's fully lined. All the leachate, all the water collected on the site, is treated in an on-site treatment system.