{"id":3535,"date":"2023-12-27T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2023-12-27T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:30:33","slug":"resource-recovery-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/resource-recovery-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation: From Waste Incineration to Resource Recovery Centre!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ‘Marine Avenue site’, located in qathet, BC was the home of a pit burner incinerator, used to burn garbage from 1971-1994.<\/p>\n

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Marine Avenue incinerator site in operation from 1971- 1994<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2005, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (MOE) designated the old incinerator site as a contaminated site that required closure and remediation to meet MOE standards. The Marine Avenue site sat exposed and abandoned for several years before a 2013 closure plan was put in place.<\/p>\n

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Marine Avenue old incinerator and waste transfer site before remediation and closure (asphalt roofing and old tire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let\u2019s Talk Trash (LTT) worked closely with the qathet Regional District (qRD) to envision what was possible for the site, during and post closure. Through the site closure and Solid Waste Management Plan update process, Let\u2019s Talk Trash, together with the Manager of Asset Management for the qRD put forward the vision to build a Resource Recovery Centre (RRC). The RRC was designed to provide opportunities for waste reduction and diversion in a central one-stop-drop location. Our team was engaged to help achieve this vision. This included identifying materials and facilitating their reuse onsite during the site closure and facility design process and continuing on through facility operations.<\/p>\n

Keeping it local<\/h1>\n

Engaging community and finding creative ways to keep and reuse waste materials within the site design instead of shipping materials \u201caway\u201d was a huge priority for LTT. Waste materials including metal, tires, glass, concrete and asphalt were identified as valuable and divertable materials for reuse on site. Let\u2019s Talk Trash engaged local contractors and artists to incorporate waste materials into the facility design.<\/p>\n

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Tires and metal stockpiled at the site separated out for reuse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A tire retaining wall and bridges given new life at the site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The goal of the RRC<\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s Talk Trash was integral to the project by ensuring the design include infrastructure to support waste diversion for reuse. There are a myriad of community benefits that emerge from the full circle systems approach we took to ensure the RRC reaches its full potential, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Building a local circular economy across sectors through facilitating opportunities for diversion and reuse<\/p>\n

\u2022 Investing in the reuse economy by designing site infrastructure to facilitate access to the feedstock of ‘waste’ materials to increase supply and demand in local secondary markets<\/p>\n

\u2022 Providing lower cost waste diversion options (i.e., source separated clean wood waste) for the construction\/deconstruction sector<\/p>\n

\u2022 Creating low-barrier employment opportunities, supporting non-profit sector social programs and providing low-cost building supplies to residents and builders<\/p>\n

\u2022 Reducing financial burdens for residents by reducing the amount of waste shipped to landfill and the upstream\/downstream impacts of waste and associated impacts (i.e., greenhouse gas emissions)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Supporting new and existing industry and the emergence of a local deconstruction sector<\/p>\n

\u2022 Building local resiliency to buffer compounding issues due to disruptions, inflation, global shipping and material supply challenges<\/p>\n

\u2022 Facilitating an educational hub with opportunities for skills training, research, repair workshops and educational tours<\/p>\n

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Transfer station \u201cpay side\u201d with a reuse area and bunkers designed for diversion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ‘Marine Avenue site’, located in qathet, BC was the home of a pit burner incinerator, used to burn garbage from 1971-1994. In 2005, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy (MOE) designated the old incinerator site as a contaminated site that required closure and remediation to meet MOE standards. The Marine Avenue site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letstalktrash.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}