Environment committee  The only thing I would add to that is that the discussion so far has been about the role of the federal government or other governments. I say, quite frankly, the challenge ahead of us is really for us to hit our targets, whatever they may be. In my area, that's waste diversion i

Environment committee  I'm saying in our presentation that there are more than 240,000 tonnes of C and D within this market. I'm only handling 51,000 tonnes of it right now. My certificate is limited to that. I'm going to build a new plant and I'm going to go after another 100,000 tonnes. So in total I

Environment committee  No, I take everything. The issue here is that when you're building a house, you don't have the ability to keep separate cans around the property. You can't have a 40-yard container for wood and a 40-yard for all of the different materials. In putting it into my process, you put i

Environment committee  It's broader than that. I'll take residential for sure—new home building, all of the new developments that we have around here with the different developers, such as Mattamy and others. They come to us. We become involved in the LEED program. We give reports to people such as t

Environment committee  Sorry, what was the first part of your question?

Environment committee  On the environmental side, of course the operation has to be environmentally sound. We take all of the steps we can to safeguard the environment, even as to where our plants are located, as to what vehicles are coming to the site, as to the actual equipment itself and how it is l

Environment committee  I'm pretty well wrapped up here. The most important thing is that this is technology that we started in 1997. We're excited about it. We're like a horse at the line. We're ready to take it down further. We're excited about that. We're talking about a technology that's been prove

Environment committee  I'll make a clarification. The 3.3% represents the Tomlinson portion only. The City of Ottawa diverts maybe about 50% of the recycling or the residential.

Environment committee  The 3.3% is our portion, the little portion that comes into our plant. I want to take it up to 13%.

Environment committee  Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Again I, too, thank you for the opportunity of addressing the committee here today. My name is Michael Walters. I've been in the waste management business for over 40 years and in the last four years I've been with Tomlinson, R.W. Tomlinson. Over that