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Environment committee I thank the committee for inviting me as well to address you today. It's certainly an honour. I was told that I would have about seven minutes to talk. I've created about 30 minutes of PowerPoint slides, being a typical municipal employee, because that's what we do, right?
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee You're welcome. Our biggest undertaking currently is our PERC project.
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Of course, we talk about this all the time, so we're used to it. It's called the Peel energy recovery centre. That is to replace an old incinerator. It's going to be built for the private sector to handle roughly 300,000 tonnes of garbage, and be owned by the Region of Peel. We'l
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee I will get through what I can in seven minutes. I've chosen to tell you about some of the things we do that are newer in our region or stuff we've undertaken that is unique. We are a large municipality and consequently have a rather large budget for our operations, but really,
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee That's a Smurf.
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee I'm sorry. A MRF is a materials recovery facility.
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee The CRC is a community recycling centre. What else did I miss? EFW, energy-from-waste facility.
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Sure, I can go first. I think the biggest problem facing us as a municipality is not NIMBY but the “don't build anything, any time, anywhere” syndrome. That has replaced NIMBY. That's why I think it's very important to bring in the social and political action ahead of time. At
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee To answer your question, I can do it in two ways. One is that I think the science has come a long way in the last 20 years, and that's important. But more importantly, waste itself is a relatively clean product as we collect it off the street. I'm not talking about the industrial
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Once you take into account the sort of reuse-reduction aspect, there will always be material left over. In the waste strain, that material is, I really think, the future of waste management in energy production. I can't say that we would be able to trace that waste back to indivi
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Yes, sure, I've actually applied for two GMF funds. One was an earlier fund around mixing waste with sewage sludge. But currently we're doing an agricultural research study with all the municipal producers in Ontario. We have all the major source-separated organics producers prod
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee I can't answer on the gas tax. I'm sorry. As for our own waste management, we don't use that.
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Sure. In Peel we don't accept material that's in a plastic bag, although we do accept material that's in a biodegradable bag. That could be a biodegradable plastic or it could be a biodegradable fibre. A lot of people just wrap their stuff in newspapers. That being said, we do
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee Certainly, I've been working probably for the last 10 years trying to do some projects at a cement plant in Mississauga. There are some very serious political and social issues in the neighbourhood, but the technology is such that the last time we looked at it, it was taking wast
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad
Environment committee The nice thing about concrete kilns—I'm not a concrete guy, I'm a garbage and landfill guy, so I don't really know 100% of the technology—is that when you put stuff into the kiln, it pretty much encapsulates the waste. You have to worry about some of the exhaust coming off, but t
November 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Larry Conrad