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Contents april 2018 | Volume 26, Number 3

36 Equipment focus: 20 Cover story

single-Ram

Inner-city composting

Alberta-based Hop Compost is horizontal balers

using in-vessel technology to bring

their craft compost method closer Our focus turns to paper

to the source of commercial waste

26 Food and packaging waste no match for tiger

Ecoverse’s Tiger depackaging

and plastics recycling’s true workhorse

45 Last word

quality starts at the source

Educating the organics “collection army” needs communication that inspires and motivates, by Susan Antler

machine removes over 99 percent of contaminants from organics

28 On a roll in Waterloo

Increased inflow of recyclables and organics driving growth for Waterloo transfer stations

32 Cashing in on cameras for driver safety Mack is joining forces with Lytx

to help make roads safer for collection vehicle operators

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34 future-proofing the MRF MSS’s FiberMax optical sorter is

providing MRFs with the key to purer end product

On the cover: The Hop Compost executive team.

From left to right: Chris Wong, Kevin Davies and Meghan Perry.

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As we build a greater understanding about the impact of food loss and waste on our economy and environment, we must also commit ourselves to take action on source reduction and food rescue and recovery, at all stages of the food supply chain.”

César Rafael Chávez, CEC

he Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recently released a comprehensive report on the state of food loss and waste in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The report, developed through the CEC’s North American Initiative on Food Waste Reduction and Recovery, estimates that 168 million tonnes of food are wasted in North America each year, with Americans wasting 415 kilograms, Canadians 396 kilograms and Mexicans 249 kilograms on a per capita basis.

The report finds that the largest share of food loss and waste in North America – approximately 67 million tonnes yearly – occurs at the consumer level, and that there are also 52 million tonnes wasted at the industrial, commercial and institutional levels, as well as 49 million tonnes at the pre-harvest level. These losses represent a colossal waste of economic, social and natural resources.

Avenues towards potential solutions to reduce the problem of food waste, according to the report, include focusing on overproduction and product damage, revising standardized labelling practices, cold-chain infrastructure and rigid food-grading specifications, as well as looking more closely at varying customer demand and market fluctuations.

Another key finding is that distributors, retailers, food-rescue organizations and food service providers have a critical role to play in realizing solutions.

“As we build a greater understanding about the impact of food loss and waste on our economy and environment, we must also commit ourselves to take action on source reduction and food rescue and recovery, at all stages of the

food supply chain,” said César Rafael Chávez, CEC executive director.

“Our aim with this report is to establish a baseline and identify an array of tools and strategies that will enable each sector of the food supply chain to make reducing these losses a reality.”

Food waste reduction is certainly a hot topic, and remains central to diversion target strategies around North America. The technology is available to make it happen and innovative companies and municipalities are increasingly finding efficient and profitable ways to get the job done. Our feature focus on Alberta-based Hop Compost profiles a company that has found a way to bring “craft composting” to the source of commercial waste through the use of the company’s in-vessel systems located in urban environments. The solution provides increased diversion of food and other organic waste for cities, as well as the creation of high-quality organic compost – and it means high hauling costs for heavy, wet materials are basically taken out of the equation.

The third annual Food Recovery Forum will be part of the upcoming WasteExpo 2018 event, set for April 23–26, in Las Vegas. We hope to see you there.

On a sad note, RPN would like to acknowledge the passing, this past March, of Erich Janke. One of the Canadian heavy equipment industry’s true pioneers and co-founder of Edmontonbased Terrafirma Equipment, he will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

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City of High Point 10-tph MRF provided by Machinex now in operation Machinex has provided a new single-stream material recovery system for the City of High Point, North Carolina, which went operational in January 2018. The City acquired this new system to improve their recovery rates as well as growing tonnage. The commingled recyclables are sourced from a portion of Guilford County and Jamestown.

The 10 tons-per-hour residential single-stream system features Machinex’s new MACH Double-Deck OCC screen which reduces wrapping and improves cardboard recovery. A MACH Ballistic Separator was also installed instead of a traditional disc screen to separate fibres from the containers. According to Machinex, this ballistic solution reduces maintenance in a significant way for operators because it has no shafts for material to wrap around and there are no rubber discs to replace. A ferrous magnet and a Machinex Eddy Current Separator were also installed at the end of the container line.

“In addition to meeting the project requirements, we were impressed with Machinex’s complete solution approach in being able to design, manufacture, install and service the entire system,” said Melanie Bruton, MRF Superintendent. “We are excited to evaluate the efficiencies for processing and recovery.”

“Obviously, we are quite proud to have been involved in the winning bid for the High Point, NC city MRF,” said Rusty Angel, Machinex’s eastern region sales manager. “After all, High Point is the location of Machinex’s U.S. Corporate Headquarters. Our project management teams worked closely together to deliver a successful project for the City and optimize the performance of their system,” he said. “This system not only meets High Point’s current processing requirements, but provides plenty of room for additional tons they may bring into the facility in the coming years.”

Pellenc and Sesotec form partnership to better serve high-tech sorting sectors in Europe and Japan Pellenc ST and Sesotec GmbH recently formed a new partnership to complement their market and product portfolio in the high-tech recyclables sorting sector. This agreement covers the distribution of flake sorting equipment for plastics recycling applications in France, Japan and the U.K. and sensor-based sorting equipment for ELVs, metal scrap and the WEEE recycling markets in France and Japan. For other territories and other waste sorting applications, the companies say new opportunities will be treated on a case-by-case basis.

According to a press release from Pellenc ST, the communication between their team and Sesotec has highlighted common values, a similar product and technology approach and a true complementarity that will allow both companies to jointly strengthen their positions. It also represents the start of a new and solid French-German industrial partnership that will be enriching for both companies and that will continue to evolve, step-by-step, based on future opportunities.

“With more than 50 years of combined experience in the waste and recycling market, we decided to pool the state-of-the-art of our sorting technologies to satisfy ever-growing quality standards,” said Michael Perl, head of sorting recycling for Sesotec.

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Event News

Frontline Machinery hosts 2nd Annual K

On March 13, Frontline Machinery hosted their annual Canadian Keestrack Demo Day at their Western Canadian head office in Chilliwack, B.C. Recycling Product News was on site at the event which brought together customers and stakeholders from the aggregate and recycling industry for a live, hands-on demonstration of crushing, screening and stacking conveyor systems.

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Carton Council working towards a comprehensive strategy to boost recycling

al Keestrack Demo Day in B.C. track-mounted H4 cone crusher, the world’s first mobile cone crusher designed with an independent 4- x 6-foot prescreen and a three-deck 5- x 12foot finishing screen, and an oversized material recycling conveyor – producing three high-grade end products in a single pass. This machine also features a hybrid diesel-electric drive concept (345 kW diesel/330 kVA genset/135 kW e-drive). In addition, a uniquely designed on-board generator can be removed from the crusher and placed away from its dirty abrasive environment during operation.

Combined with full-electric options such as a direct plug into the mains, or power from an external or the onboard diesel genset, the Keestrack H4 offers superior fuel consumption (up to 70 percent savings over previous models) and improved ease of maintenance for long-term reliability.

Also featured at the Keestrack Canadian Demo Day in March was the trackmounted R6e electric impact crusher with up to a 500-tph capacity. Offering up to 45 percent energy savings over diesel-hydraulic models, the R6e is available with a 250-kW electric motor for the crusher and an electric 110-kW drive for the on-board hydraulic system. It also offers an optional all-electric plug-in operation from the mains and a plug-out operation for powering secondary machines such as a stacker or screener. Due to the R6e having the largest and heaviest rotor in its class, this machine is ideal for aggressive primary and secondary crushing applications, including concrete and asphalt recycling and quarry applications.

Isabelle Faucher, managing director of the Carton Council of Canada (CCC) told delegates at the Canadian Waste Resource Symposium meeting, held in March in Quebec City, that the CCC is investing in a comprehensive strategy to increase carton recycling across Canada. The primary lever of the strategy is driving information and knowledge resources to the participants in the carton value chain, from consumers to the manufacturers who use cartons as the feedstock for their products.

During Ms. Faucher’s presentation at the Canadian Waste Resource Symposium, she told delegates, “Our goal is about building and growing carton recycling. And we are proud that our efforts and those of our partners and stakeholders in the value chain are having an effect. As of February 2018, the national carton recycling rate was 59 percent, up from 26 percent in 2008, a year before the CCC was established.

“Included in that is our interest in improving performance at material recycling facilities (MRFs) which is a key part of improving carton recycling,” she continued, pointing to the CCC’s work in sharing best practices and recent work with individual MRFs to determine the best solution for positive sorting – separating cartons from other materials to achieve their maximum value.

In 2011, food and beverage cartons received their own Paper Stock Industries (PSI) grade, #52, which means they get the most value when sorted and separated alone.

“That’s why the Carton Council has always recommended sorting cartons instead of adding them to mixed paper,” said Faucher.

“This practice is becoming more important as markets such as China introduce regulations that affect the marketability of materials such as mixed paper.”

Faucher also said they are working with recyclers who use cartons as their feedstock to help build markets, and to increase consumer participation. The full presentation is available from the Carton Council of Canada.

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UPFRONT Waste-to-biofuels

First-of-its-kind fully integrated closed-loop biofuel facility opens in B.C. Surrey, B.C.’s second largest city (located south-east of Vancouver), officially opened a new biofuel facility in March.

The $68 million facility is the first fully integrated closed-loop organic waste management system in North America, according to a City of Surrey press release, and will convert curbside organic waste into renewable biofuel to fuel their fleet of natural gas–powered waste collection and service vehicles. Under this closed-loop system, waste collection trucks will be collecting their own fuel source at curbside. Excess fuel will go to the new district energy system that heats and cools Surrey’s City Centre.

“Surrey has established a new sustainability benchmark in Canada with a state-of-the-art facility that converts organic waste into renewable energy,” said Mayor Linda Hepner.

The City-owned Surrey Biofuel facility was established via a public-private partnership with 75 percent funding from U.K.-based Renewi plc., which is responsible for the design, build and operation of the facility. According to Renewi, this biofuel facility will divert 115,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfill, and produce approximately 120,000 gigajoules of renewable natural gas as well as about 45,000 tonnes of nutrient-rich compost annually.

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Emterra certified as a woman-owned and minority-owned enterprise Emterra Environmental was recently certified as a women’s business enterprise through WBE Canada. In addition, Emterra Group divisions – Emterra Environmental, Emterra Tire Recycling and Canadian Liquids Processors – have qualified for certification as a minority business enterprise through CAMSC, the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council. “In an industry traditionally dominated by men, it’s nice to be recognized for being a woman and a minority,” said Emmie Leung, founder and CEO of Emterra Group.

SWANA surpasses 10,000 members The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has announced that membership has exceeded more than 10,000 members across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

Since its inception in 1961, SWANA has quickly grown and broadened its membership of public sector and private sector municipal solid waste management professionals.

This latest milestone marks a more than 22 percent membership growth since 2015.

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spotlight TOMRA’s new LOD system identifies black objects and glass for increased purity TOMRA Sorting has introduced its new Laser Object Detection (LOD) system that, when used in combination with AUTOSORT and FINDER technology, boosts the circuit’s sorting capabilities, allowing waste and scrap recycling operations to reach final product purity levels unique to the market and never before possible, according to the manufacturer.

Featuring TOMRA laser technology that sorts based on the feed material’s spectral and spatial characteristics, the new LOD detects material that near-infrared technology (NIR) is incapable of identifying.

“NIR technology cannot detect items such as black plastic and rubber, glass and other waste items,” explains Carlos Manchado Atienza, regional director, Americas for TOMRA Sorting. “By combining our new LOD technology, which can detect these items, with our powerful AUTOSORT and FINDER systems, TOMRA once again leads the industry in developing and adapting technology to meet continually evolving specifications in the market.”

LOD gives recycling facilities a low energy, cost-effective solution for meeting tough customer purity requirements.

LFC biodigester provides on-site composting of food waste The LFC from Power Knot is a compact biodigester that automatically converts solid food waste into drainsafe wastewater.

The system is free of odour, slashes costs for the disposal of waste, and provides continuous biodigestion, allowing food waste to be added at any time. As one of six models currently available, the LFC-300 (shown here) can digest up to 500 kg (1,200 pounds) of organic waste per day. The unit can compost anything edible, including fruits, vegetables, raw and cooked meat, fish, cheese, bread, rice and noodles. Liquids resulting from biodigestion drain continuously through a screen along the bottom of the vessel, to an outlet, and into any municipal drain, or to provide nutrient-rich recovered water for landscaping.

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The new TOMRA sorting system boosts final product purity by as much as four percent, without sacrificing circuit productivity.

Its modular design enables the flexible LOD system to be added onto the same platform as existing latest-generation TOMRA sorting equipment. Alternatively, it can be added to the circuit as its own standalone sorting stage.

Developed for simple and fast installation and programming into existing plants, the new LOD is mechanically mounted to a platform. Unlike other systems, this arrangement allows for both large and small feed material to pass under the laser without blockage.

Heavy-duty “Transfer Stations”

SP Industries offers a comprehensive line of heavy-duty industrial “Transfer Stations” ideal for waste and recyclable material handling.

These Transfer Stations provide manufacturing/processing facilities and municipal waste handling centres with a more compact, costeffective and sanitary method to handle refuse and recyclable materials. Systems can incorporate a loading method and compactor, both of which are tailored to the specific needs of the facility to maximize efficiency and safety.

All SP Transfer Station systems are designed to provide maximum density, optimized operational and transport efficiency, and costeffectiveness. A wide range of machine sizes can accommodate from 100 to 740 cubic yards/hr and load weights from 45 to 335 tons/hr, and units are compatible with a full range of loading methods.

Our look at the latest new and updated equipment, technology, Parts and systems for recycling and waste management

Dryclone ideal for producing SRF from wet organic waste The Dryclone is a revolutionary air drying system for wet semi-solid materials that uses a high-velocity air stream and aerodynamic pulverization as well as evaporation to drive out moisture content from feedstock. Ideal for applications converting wet organic waste, including food waste, black bag waste, as well as MRF residuals into Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF), this unit will take content with up to 75 percent moisture to less than 15 percent.

According to Recycling Equipment Canada, Dryclone’s Ontario-based Canadian distributor, this technology is a cleaner, lower-cost, and more efficient alternative to drum dryers, fluidized bed dryers and other gas dryers.

It works with all waste that has the potential to be converted into energy, including: organic waste, MRF residuals, commingled MSW, sewage sludge and agricultural waste. Dryclone is ideal for food waste processing applications in particular, and eliminates the need to separate wet waste from an SRF line, processing all materials except metals and inerts.

Communications enhanced for CNG systems Momentum Fuel Technologies has introduced GreenLync 2.0, an enhanced electronics communication system for its line of compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel system solutions for Class 6 to Class 8 trucks in vocational and other applications.

Momentum utilizes the most advanced proprietary technologies to provide valuable real-time information to drivers, fleet managers and technicians to effectively manage, diagnose and service CNG-powered vehicles. GreenLync 2.0 technology focuses on driver confidence and providing a more diesel-like experience, and through collaboration with Cummins, the system is designed to reduce false occurrences of engine fault codes.

Model 4 The new model 4 E-Z log Baler is just what mid size scrap yards have been asking for! Priced right for any yard — small, mid size, or large!

Like the Model 3, the NEW Model 4 has no set up time and a very low cost to operate.

The one man operations are all handled from the newly designed cab. With the 400º rotation crane and a reach of 27’ adding the continuous rotation grapple, it makes loading the larger chamber a breeze.

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Full-track option for Vermeer CT718 turner ideal for rugged ground The popular Vermeer CT718 compost turner can now be equipped with full-length steel tracks, an option best suited for rough and muddy ground conditions. The new full-track option is one of four drive systems available for the CT718 compost turner. Other options are two-wheel drive, four-wheel drive and two-wheel plus two short tracks drive.

“We’ve added a full-track option at the request of our customers,” Jeff Bradley, product manager for recycling and forestry equipment at Vermeer explained. “The composting industry is growing worldwide, and compost turners are one of the most efficient ways of ensuring that material gets the proper amount of oxygen. Full tracks will give facilities with rugged or wet ground conditions a more effective option.”

The Vermeer CT718 compost turner is efficient and highly productive at turning windrows up to 18 feet (5.5 m) wide.

EDGE launches TRT1516, latest compact track trommel The new EDGE TRT516 Trommel Screener is a screening solution designed for mid-size operations with on-site space restrictions and for those operators who wish to regularly reposition their screen. The TRT516 combines a robust, durable machine with a quick and easy transport design. It is ideal for the processing of compost, topsoil, domestic household waste and construction and demolition waste.

Design features include a 4.9-m (16-foot) long drum, intelligent load sensing and variable speed controls, and a wide number of add-on options are available. Key design features include: a four wheel direct-drive system; variable speed drum and feed conveyor; load sensing controls; standard radial fines conveyor for huge windrow stockpiling capacities; load sensing control system; telescopic oversize conveyor for larger stockpiles; and a highly efficient maintenance-friendly hydraulic drive system. Units are also designed for fuel efficiency and low operating costs.

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New trail hoist suitable for a range of tasks Galbreath recently launched its TH-14 trail hoist. These units are built to last and stand up to the toughest jobs, providing the ideal solution for small and independent waste haulers, as well as roofers, contractors, landscapers and municipalities looking for a versatile piece of equipment that can be used to perform a wide range of hauling applications.

According to Galbreath, the TH-14 is the heaviestduty trailer hoist currently available on the market, featuring more metal frame reinforcement than any other competing product to prevent cracking and spring suspension, by distributing the load weight more evenly across the frame to minimize frame stress.

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The Hop Compost executive team between two HotRot vessels. From left to right: Chris Wong, CTO; Kevin Davies, Founder & CEO; and Meghan Perry, CFO.

Inner-city composting HOP Compost is using in-vessel technology to bring their “craft” organic compost method closer to the source

by Keith Barker, Editor

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op Compost built their first composting operation in Calgary in 2015. According to Kevin Davies, founder and CEO, due to their location in the city, at 17A Street, theirs is currently the most inner-city compost facility in Canada.

This inner-city concept – positioning a small-footprint, high-efficiency invessel composting operation within an urban environment, close to the source of commercial food and other organic

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waste – is one that Davies feels will very likely catch on.

“Composting is ripe for disruption with automation and technology,” says Davies. “At a high level, I think that composting in North America relies on very historical production methods that weren’t intended to scale.”

He says Canada has seen the failure of several centralized facilities, often due to odour or quality issues that arise when agrarian methods are stretched to an industrial size.

“At Hop Compost, we believe that composting should be decentralized, using small and hyper-efficient

processing facilities, which makes it not only safer, but actually more competitive.”

Davies says their original inner-city composting site in Calgary, similar to their second site in Vancouver, and their third site, currently under construction in Toronto, is only about 10,000 square feet in size, but has the capacity to process about 2,000 tons of certifiedorganic compost per year.

“This is a very efficient footprint,” he says. “We cut about 75 percent of the processing space that’s typically required for composting.”

In addition, because their sites are

located close to the source of their material – all from commercial customers, mainly in the retail food industry – Hop Compost can provide low-cost, customized collection and hauling of organic waste, and offer a truly closed-loop service.

The HotRot system

“We use HotRot in-vessel technology to develop our inner-city compost facilities,” says Davies. “Hop converts commercial waste into what is – to the extent that we’re aware – the most nutrientrich organic compost in the country.”

HotRot technology provides a fully sealed vessel. Inside the vessel, there are data nodes every two metres that track every live condition. The system uses software that responds to those live conditions and can adjust to allow for ideal microbiological activity.

Davies says by using their HotRot system, every minute of production is automated, so they achieve a very high degree of control over the composting process, including odours. And the system is methane- and leachate-free.

“The degree of control that Hop has over its input and output is unique,” continues Davies. “As are the software and diagnostics on the system, the variety of data it collects, our ability

to see data online and offline, and its automated controls.

“With many systems, you would set a standardized cycle and let it go.

With the HotRot system, it is able to adjust its settings as it goes, based on live conditions, such as the turning on or off of exhaust fans or air injection at different periods based on oxygen demand. Our system can track this based on CO2 levels.

“Another advantage of HotRot technology is that it’s completely modular,” he adds. “In the future, we’re going to be able to grow our facilities beyond their 2,000-ton annual capacities by simply plugging new vessels into the existing system.”

customized collection, close to the source

Hop Compost sources food and other organic waste only from commercial customers, largely from the retail food sector. Over the past several years, they have built partnerships with large food industry companies including Starbucks, Hyatt hotels and Earl’s Restaurants, to name a few.

“By virtue of bringing composting facilities from rural areas to areas that are near the actual sources of waste – the city – we’re able to develop a much

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Composting should be decentralized, using small and hyper-efficient processing facilities, which makes it not only safer, but actually more competitive.”

Kevin Davies more competitive hauling service, which is attractive to a range of commercial customers,” says Davies.

He says if they look at Ontario as an example, where food waste is often hauled for up to an hour and a half, before it reaches a processing facility, creating up to three-hour round trips, a hauling service is just inefficient. “This means that composting as potential diversion method just isn’t economic or isn’t attractive for adoption in a market without a mandate. But as soon as you

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cover story eliminate the need for that rural trip, you cut fuel and labour costs, and eliminate the need for a compaction vehicle.

Composting becomes not only feasible, but attractive.”

Hop Compost operates a fleet of cube vans for collection and hauling from customers in the cities where they operate. They provide a bin-swap program, by which they swap out every full bin collected for a clean, empty bin.

“For the clients, this is important because it enables them to have a much cleaner service than they’d get with a dumpster, which can oftentimes attract pests and create odour,” says Davies. “By collecting with our bin-swap method, we can also pass every bin that we collect over a floor scale, which is accurate to a tenth of a kilogram.

“We then have very accurate impact reporting, which enables our clients to transparently market their sustainability. Instead of just saying ‘we compost’ they can say ‘This month, we took the equivalent of 3,016 cars off the road by virtue of our composting.’”

Craft Composting

For Davies, another very important element to their operations is their ability to work with ingredient pairings.

“The microbiology in composting is very sensitive to moisture levels, temper-

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ature and acidity,” says Davies. “These are all variables that can be controlled.”

Each bin Hop Compost collects is labelled at its source and when it comes to their facility, is categorized based on the type of waste.

“This enables us to protect against things like loading citrus content into our machinery, which can decimate the microbial population because of its acidity,” he says. “It also enables us to pair-off different categories of ingredients that harmonize so we can have a balanced input of, for example, meat scraps with produce content.

“I see this as the advent of ‘craft composting,’” continues Davies. “Having true ingredient control by controlling our waste, and by virtue of having labelled waste sources, Hop has a balanced recipe for a high-quality compost product.”

He adds that compost historically has been challenged by a lack of quality control. “If you don’t know the ingredients and if your process is determined by the weather, it’s difficult to consistently validate a product as being high quality. In particular, I think it’s difficult to produce a quality that’s consistent enough for a retail environment.

“Hop has focused on environmental control within our vessels in order to produce a much more consistent compost.”

A retail package of Hop Organic Craft Compost and a standardized Hop service bin.

Davies notes that in 2017, they achieved an important milestone: their product was OMRI-listed for certified organic use in Canada.

“In order to achieve this, our product passed through a variety of lab standards for pathogen content, pesticide and herbicide residuals, and it was found to be clean enough for organic use,” says Davies, who adds that in comparison to traditional methods, they produce in small, but continuous batches.

“This enables us to have more consistent microbial population, and it also enables material to be processed faster.”

When material arrives at Hop Compost’s site, they load their hopper with an entire recipe full of food scraps and wood chips, which effectively gives the carbon/nitrogen balance required.

“As opposed to then slamming that entire content into the machinery at once, which would overwhelm it and restart the composting, it is produced in

a small-batch process,” explains Davies, adding that with their method, only a small trickle of material goes in every hour of the day, and loads are typically divided over roughly a 24-hour process, continuously.

“That way, we have a small amount of new feedstock entering into a hyperactive microbial environment that just builds and builds with time,” he says. “This enables us to have a higher degree of control over the composting process and avoid contamination from plastic or glass residuals.”

A bright future for organic waste

For Davies, organic waste is an incredibly high-opportunity market.

“The way that we see it, right now compostable waste is taking up about a third of the average landfill,” he says. “What we’ve seen is that progressive municipalities like Calgary and Vancouver, while they have introduced their own municipal services for residential waste, are mandating the adoption of private services for commercial waste. We believe that mandates like those in Vancouver and Calgary are going to continue. We’ve seen them come up in other markets, like Massachusetts, and New York is introducing an organics ban.

Having this kind of regulatory support for private adoption is going to boon the industry.

“I think what we’re eventually going to see is that we’ll no longer have one in every three pounds entering a landfill being

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he Tiger Depackaging System, available in North America from Ecoverse, now comes in five different size configurations. This technology is designed to remove 99.6 percent of contaminants from organic fractions and is specifically designed for food waste and packaging recovery operations. Applications include composting anaerobic digestion, animal nutrition, recycling and repurposing.

“We now offer Tiger Depackaging Systems that manage material anywhere from 1 ton per hour to 40 tons per hour and everything in between,” says Corey Rossen, Ecoverse’s food/organic waste division manager. “The Tiger can help organics recyclers and companies or municipalities The Tiger Depackaging System removes up to 99.6 percent of contaminants handling food waste save money, increase from organic fractions. efficiency and raise production levels, while lowering overhead costs.”

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“These units are designed to help increase compost quality, The Tiger is available renewable energy production and the value of recovered recyclables, while significantly decreasing organic contamination in a low-profile levels in food and packaging waste processing applications,” design for spacesays Rossen. constrained “The Tiger depackaging system allows for efficient separainstallations. tion of organic and inorganic fractions from off-spec food, post-consumer food, source-separated organics (SSO) or other packaged waste, resulting in less than 0.5 percent organics contamination.”

Rossen adds that precise control over water content in the final organic fraction is also provided.

“The Tiger works in multiple processing capacities, including wet, dry, and dual (wet/dry), with just a simple, one-switch change from wet to dry or vice versa.

“These machines also promote higher capture of materials such as aluminum and plastics from food waste and packaging streams,” says Rossen. “Pre-treatment of materials using Tiger technology in organics recycling, animal nutrition, composting and anaerobic digestion applications, can increase production rates by 30 to 40 percent.” RPN

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ON a roll

Increased inflow of materials is driving growth at region of waterloo – A canadian pioneer of transfer and recycling

By Lee Toop, Associate Editor

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ocated in southwestern Ontario, the Region of Waterloo encompasses three cities and around 530,000 residents. Set in the middle of the triangle formed by Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario, it’s a greenbelt community that features a mixture of farms, educational facilities and technological innovation.

It is also known for its advanced approach to recycling, which began in the early 1980s and has continued through to today. The Region of Waterloo, which includes the cities of

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Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo, was one of the first communities to adopt what could be considered modern recycling programs, more than 35 years ago, according to operations supervisor Mike Ursu.

“In 1981, the concept of curbside pickup of recycling in a separate box was born here in Kitchener and spread through North America from there,” Ursu says.

The region has since led the way with a variety of recycling programs and operations. This currently includes a pair of busy transfer stations

where thousands of tons of recyclable materials are collected each year.

The high volume of material moving through the Region of Waterloo’s system requires good relationships with suppliers and sales partners, and efficient staff and equipment that can meet the demands of managing incoming materials, whether the product being moved is paper, plastics or organics.

The region takes a multi-faceted approach to its recycling programs, using multiple sites for collecting material, and then redirecting streams to

their proper locations. While it does maintain an active landfill, the region promotes recycling through its central collection facility and another, smaller transfer station.

“We have a recycling centre where trucks drop off the recycling that they pick up at the curb,” Ursu explains.

“Then we have a small vehicle public drop-off transfer station for people. Part of that public drop-off is a hazardous waste facility.”

He adds that the Region of Waterloo’s recycling centre takes everything collected curbside in the region, moving approximately 38,000 tons of “blue box” materials through their site yearly, which is not a small task.

“Our transfer facility receives the common blue box materials, like household bottles, jars and cans, plastic, and metal and aluminum,” Ursu continues. “And then, on the paper side, boxboard, cardboard and newsprint. The container portion, we process right at the facility, and the mixed-paper portion we transfer to a different facility that we don’t own and it gets sorted there.”

Beyond blue box materials, Ursu says the region’s food waste collection program has also been expanding in recent years. This has generated plenty of additional material to be processed by Waterloo – around 22,000 tons annually, and growing, after the region changed its garbage collection schedule to a biweekly pickup in 2017.

“We process about 22,000 tons of food waste annually,” says Ursu. “We went to bi-weekly garbage last March and it has more than doubled our food waste.” He adds that food waste is now transferred at their curbside drop-off building and transferred to an organics waste processor on a regular basis.

Wheel loaders key to efficiency and safety for Waterloo

With more than 50,000 tons of total material transferred and processed through its facilities annually, and more coming all the time, the region has had to find a solid partner to work with when it comes to the equipment that moves all that material. The

region has had a long relationship with Volvo Construction Equipment for wheel loaders – a relationship that was strengthened recently by signing a sole supplier agreement with local dealer Strongco.

Ben Waldron, Strongco territory manager, says the growth in Waterloo’s recycling has resulted in a need for more machines, and the region’s requirements

for features in those machines is changing as well.

“They’re currently growing their operations,” he says. “They have need of two more 15-ton loaders because of the increase in recycling.

“With the decision that they would only pick up waste every two weeks, but they’ll pick up recycling and compost weekly, they’ve seen a gigantic

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The Region of Waterloo’s Volvo wheel loaders feature auto-levelling and a Load Assist scale for very high efficiencies. Photos by Nathan Medcalf.

growth – to the point where they’re going to buy two new loaders to handle incoming material.”

Waterloo’s Volvo machines are used in a variety of roles within their transfer stations. Key jobs include moving paper products and food waste into highway trailers for shipping to regional recyclers.

According to Ursu, when you’re dealing with a product like paper, it can wind up everywhere if you’re not careful. To prevent this, he says the Volvo loaders’ auto levelling feature comes in very handy.

“We’re not in a quarry or a gravel pit, but with food waste and paper, travelling a distance with both of them, we need that self-levelling feature, not only when driving but also as we’re lifting the bucket,” Ursu explains. “Our shipping bay is somewhat below ground-level, so the top of the trailer is maybe six or seven feet above the floor level that the loader is working on. So we have some sight into the inside of the trailer, and are working at a good height.”

Waldron adds that the ability to level any load makes Waterloo’s equipment safer for all its employees.

“They rotate their guys through all the equipment and different jobs,” he says. “Any guy can get into any loader, and if for whatever reason he needs to pick up a set of forks and lift a load, he can do that safely.”

The Region of Waterloo processes over 50,000 tonnes of materials yearly, including curbside materials and food waste.

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In 1981, the concept of curbside pickup of recycling in a separate box was born here in Kitchener and spread through North America from there.”

Waldron. “The computer neutralizes the engine, brings the machine to a safe stop, and sends it into the forward motion. RBB saves fuel, improves cycle times and, most importantly, assures a safe stop with each direction change.”

Through the agreement with Strongco, the Region of Waterloo is in line to receive two machines in the near future and a total of seven

loaders over the period of the arrangement.

According to Waldron, their Volvo wheel loaders will serve the transfer station operations well going forward, as the region’s efforts continue to successfully encourage residents to recycle more materials across the board, and increasing amounts of paper, containers, mixed waste and organics just keep flowing in. RPN

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Auto levelling also plays a big role in quickly and efficiently loading and unloading transport trucks.

“We have outdoor bunkers,” Ursu explains. “The curbside trucks drop off just in front of the bunker, and then the loader scoops it up and deposits it inside the building. When a truck shows up to take materials away to a processing location, we use our loaders to fill the truck.

That’s at floor level, so there’s no pits or any loading bay, but the Volvo is able to reach up and load the truck.”

Unlike with paper, for food waste, Waterloo’s loaders are not used to tamp it down, because of the weight of the material. He says that’s where another of their new loaders’ benefits comes in – Volvo’s Load Assist system.

“They wanted a better, more efficient scale to use on their machines,” Waldron says. “Volvo’s new Load Assist scale is on an Android tablet, and they can use that to track every load they do – even if they have to stop and do something else, they can store up to 20 different jobs in that tablet and come back to it after the fact.”

Outside, the wheel loaders are also used to turn the region’s compost windrows, Ursu notes. The operators can take advantage of Volvo’s Reverse by Braking (RBB) feature in that application and others.

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Cashing in on cameras for safety Mack joins forces with Lytx for the advancement of driver safety

By Lee Toop, Associate Editor

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aulers in urban environments know very well the challenges of working in close quarters.

Our communities seem to be getting more congested all the time, and maneuvering a collection truck through busy streets is never an easy task.

Technology has become a significant part of the solution to improving safety – both for drivers and the general public around them. Major truck manufacturers are working to find the most effective ways to provide increased safety.

Mack Trucks recently announced that it is working with one leading developer of truck-based camera systems to provide their customers with options that can improve both safety and operations.

Safety is a definitely a major focus for Mack when it comes to collection trucks, says Curtis Dorwart, refuse product manager. “We use technology to do a lot of simulation and physical testing to ensure that our designs are safe for ingress and egress and occupant restraint,” he says. “Beyond that, there are a lot of new things out there to help increase safety and reduce accidents as well as enhance visibility and compliance.

“Camera systems, for instance, are getting better and less expensive all the time,” continues Dorwart. “A few years ago, a single rear-facing camera was about all most customers could afford, and they helped greatly in reducing backing accidents. Now, multiple full-

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colour camera systems are the norm, and we integrate provisions for mounting and routing cables, and hardware for monitors and forward-facing cameras.”

Cameras provide multiple opportunities to improve safety, both by tracking and recording exterior interactions.

When focused internally, they improve safety by recording the driver’s reactions to various situations faced on the road.

“It is pretty well known that driver cameras will almost always improve fleet and driver behaviour and safety,” says Dorwart. “They can point out bad behaviours, which can become coachable moments for the betterment of the driver and for the fleet, or they can reveal a problem behaviour that can only be corrected by removing the driver from service. Cameras can also be a very powerful tool to help vindicate a driver in times of accidents or mishap.”

This is the root of the memorandum of understanding Mack signed recently with Lytx. Lytx offers a range of products, including DriveCam, which is an in-cab event recorder and coaching system that can provide insight on driver behaviour, and Video Services technology that records external events from a variety of mounted cameras and angles.

According to Lytx, Video Services is a cloud-connected system targeted at removing blind spots in fleets and thereby improving productivity and efficiency.

Designed to pair with the company’s DriveCam system, it includes such features as a driver-facing lens that captures

short video clips when triggered by driving events like a hard brake or sudden swerve. An outside lens also continuously records video and the system provides an option to stream the video live when needed. Additionally, an on-board digital video recorder connected to the cloud features enough space to store about a week’s worth of vehicle operations.

With the Lytx system, sensors are also installed to capture critical data such as speed, vehicle motion and location, and the system is designed to connect easily to other cameras – up to 12, with additional camera hub systems installed.

Mack says the Lytx Workspace provides users a system that allows for the data gathered to be reviewed with ease, as well as a method to customize DriveCam and Video Services settings for the user’s preferred needs.

The variety of products available from Lytx that can potentially improve fleet safety and operations was the key reasoning for Mack to enter into an MOU with the company, Dorwart says. “Lytx is a leading provider of video services that help enhance the safety, efficiency, productivity and profitability of fleets.

“Mack is pleased to have reached an agreement with Lytx to investigate how their technologies can benefit customers using our LR and TerraPro refuse models.”

Timing for availability of Lytx offerings on Mack’s trucks has not been confirmed as yet, but Lytx Video Services is expected to roll out to the general market in spring, 2018. RPN

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Optical sorting

“future-proofing” the MRF MSS fiberMax optical sorter cuts costs while handling challenging materials and optimizing output quality

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SS, Inc., part of the CP Group and based in Nashville, Tennessee, is in the process of supplying a total of 29 CIRRUS FiberMax optical sorter units for 13 customers across North America, and says more units are on order.

According to Greg Thibado, MSS vice president, “Since it was unveiled a little over a year ago, the FiberMax optical sorter has been a very popular choice for MRF operators who want to optimize fibre quality and reduce manual sorter head count at the same time, providing the cleanest fibre at high volumes.”

Thibado says a single FiberMax unit can replace up to 25

FiberMax’s ability to handle challenging materials like thin flexible plastics packaging and lightweight single-serve PET bottles ‘future-proofs’ MRFs and paper sorting facilities against foreseeable changes in the ever-evolving material stream.”

manual sorters as it performs up to between 800 and 1,000 picks per minute, versus only about 40 picks per minute for a manual sorter.

This is made possible by a high conveyor speed of 1,000 feet-perminute, which is twice the speed of conventional optical sorters.

According to MSS, in one recent installation, FiberMax decreased the level of prohibitives in a residential mixed paper stream from over 10 percent to less than 3 percent, consistently. Additionally, it reduced the sorter head count by 12.

“We are very pleased with the success of the FiberMax and so are our customers,” says Thibado. “FiberMax’s ability to handle challenging materials like thin flexible plastics packaging and lightweight single-serve PET bottles ‘future-proofs’ MRFs and paper sorting facilities against foreseeable changes in the ever evolving material stream.”

Thibado adds that it is advanced scanning technology and software algorithms that truly give FiberMax the edge.

“With its ClearLight technology, FiberMax doesn’t use gratings or light beam splitters, so detectors receive the maximum amount of reflected light possible,” he says, adding that besides prohibitives, it is able to positively sort a variety of other materials such as ONP, mixed paper, OCC and SOP. “FiberMax has changed the game,” adds Thibado. “And we look forward to many more customer success stories.”

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single-Ram horizontal balers For recycling high volumes of paper, plastics and uBCs in the mrf and other facilities, the Horizontal single-ram baler remains the primary workhorse of the industry

by Keith Barker, Editor

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ingle-ram horizontal balers are the most common type of baler employed in MRFs and other large-scale recycling facilities for compressing and readying recovered paper, plastics and other recyclables for transport downstream to end markets. Also referred to as a channel baler, these machines use a single-ram or cylinder to compress, move and eject material in a continuous cycle). They are ideal for high-production recycling facilities processing paper and cardboard, plastic bottles and UBCs, and are very adaptable to handle a range of other materials, including everything from textiles to metals.

Today’s horizontal, single-ram balers are highly automated, high-tech machines, using automatic bale tying, SMART technology, and monitoring systems with remote diagnostic capabilities. They provide easy maintenance, low-downtime, easy changes between materials and are highly productive, while being more environmentally friendly than ever.

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Bollegraaf has been building single-ram balers in Europe since the 1960s. The company’s single-ram balers were first introduced to the North American market in 1984 by the founders of Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, which today, remains Bollegraaf’s North American distributor.

“At that time, single-rams were primarily used as paper balers in the dual-stream recycling environment,” says John Reuckert, senior technician at Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. “By the mid-to-late-1990s, single-stream recycling emerged, and Bollegraaf’s baler evolved to bale containers in addition to fibre.

“One of the biggest advantages of a Bollegraaf baler is its ability to process a variety of materials quickly,” says Rueckert. He adds that advanced autonomous operation allows “intelligent” setup and feeding of different materials with just a few touches on the operator touchscreen or remote tablet. On the latest models, production throughput has significantly increased, providing immediate time and labour savings.

“Since the beginning Van Dyk and Bollegraaf have strived for constant improvement, all while remembering our ‘legacy’ balers,” says Reuckert.

“In the last 10 years, we have introduced a variety of improvements, many that can be retrofitted to earlier models.” He says recent advances include: autonomous operation, whereby the baler “learns” material, equating to up to a 20 percent increase in production and container weights; intuitive operator panels that are as easy to operate as a smartphone; simplified needle and knotting systems, providing lower part count, higher throughput and better reliability; and available double-channel cylinders, for higher bale densities and more consistent bale size and shape.

When comparing single-ram balers to two-ram balers, Rueckert says that

Mike Schwinn, American Baler’s sales manager. “Bale weights can be 2,000– 3,000 pounds, with very fast tie cycles compared to a two-ram.

“As the packaging industry grew, so did American Baler Company as we developed machines to make heavier bales, automatic-tie balers, and larger recycling balers that can be used for a variety of materials besides paper,” Schwinn continues.

By adding additional retainers, for material springing back into the bale chamber, as well as other methods to increase friction, he says it can be key for baling materials such as heavy plastic. For textiles, he adds, they provide a full package that minimizes damage to product while baling.

“But for some grades of plastic containers and non-ferrous metals – the quality of the bales and weights

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“Rather than tearing apart and mashing material into a wall (basically what a two-ram baler does) the single-ram baler uses the previous bale to help retain and compress material.” He says this provides efficiency, more consistent bale weights, faster grade changes and no “orphan” bales when two grades are introduced to a bale chamber during grade changes.

“Current advancements in autonomous operation, double-wire capability, automated perforating systems, tying systems and pressure adjustments have turned Bollegraaf machines into the perfect vehicle for baling heavy loads of both containers and fibre at impressive speeds.”

American Baler Company made their first horizontal baler for the paper industry in 1945.

“Single-ram balers are most productive in paper because the ram is pretty much always in compaction mode,” says

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equipment focus: single-ram horizontal balers produced by single-rams will lead users back to two-rams,” says Schwinn.

“Also safety is a big consideration,” he adds. “Category-3 balers with trap key systems and better guarding are increasingly in demand to improve the safety of baler operators.

“The tension system design on singleram balers is typically most critical,” he continues. “American Baler Company uses a single-cylinder 4-way free-floating bale chamber tension control system that yields the heaviest bales, even when processing ‘harder’ bale products that are slick, or with lots of memory.”

According to Marc Massé, R&D engineer at Machinex, there are a few key options recyclers should think about when considering adding or updating their single-ram balers, including the use of a pre-press and shear combination.

“Pre-compaction with pre-press technology increases the volumetric efficiency of the baler,” says Massé. “This is especially true when baling fluffy

Machinex single-ram MLP-165HT baler. material or material with flow characteristics, such as plastics that haven’t been pre-conditioned. The addition of a shear blade eliminates potential jams when baling large products like commercial cardboard. Also, the pre-press will reduce wear on the knives and shear blade.”

When it comes to the hydraulic system, Massé says a pre-fill valve increases the main ram cycle speed in both for-

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ward and reverse modes.

“The ram can obtain a speed up to 2.5 times higher than that of a traditional regenerative circuit for the same flow at the pumps, reducing the cycle time and increasing energy efficiency,” continues Massé who adds that there is also a choice to make between horizontal and vertical tie styles. “While the vertical tie has a reduced footprint, the horizontal tying mechanism is easier to maintain, and horizontally tied bales can be easier to manipulate for forklift operators. Certain tying mechanisms also can result in lower wear and greater tying success.”

In 1988, Harris acquired Selco, a single-ram baler manufacturer, and has built many single-ram balers over the years since, mostly for fibre recycling applications.

“Harris builds single-ram balers for light applications, up to one of the largest and most productive single-rams in the industry,” says Forrest Wildes, Harris’s director of strategic accounts.

The Harris IPS Conquest model has a huge 72-inch by 72-inch feed opening that can handle bulky OCC with ease, and because of articulating sidewalls, it also handles most high-grade paper without shredding or fluffing.

Wildes says most single-ram balers have a feed opening of only 40 inches wide, therefore requiring the feed conveyor to input from the side, or 90 degrees from the bale exit.

He adds that one of the biggest advantages of the single-ram is its ability to make an oversize bale.

equipment focus: single-ram horizontal balers “If you feed too much material for the desired bale length, the baler simply makes a longer bale. The same is true when changing grades. You simply tie the bale at any desired length and change to another material.

“The single-ram baler will process UBC, paper and plastic, as long as the plastic PET is perforated and run at lower pressure and bale length,” he continues, adding that for materials like non-ferrous with not much memory, the single-ram is not recommended.

“The biggest innovation for IPS-Harris has been the articulating sidewall,” continues Wildes. “The sidewall opens up so you can feed large OCC in the feed chamber without bridging in the feed hopper. It also rolls high-grade material, so the baler does not require a shredder or fluffer.

“I think in the future more applications will require smaller areas for recycling equipment, meaning that single-ram balers may have to be built to a smaller footprint. I also believe the future will require faster and heavier bales to meet shipping requirements.”

Kadant PAAL, in a distribution partnership with Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), is currently marketing the company’s proven European-built channel balers in North America.

According to Jason Greatorex, Kadant PAAL’s general manager for North America, in the single-ram baler market the majority of balers are of “channel-type” design. The exceptions

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Harris IPS Conquest singleram horizontal baler. include semi-automatic balers used in low-volume singlestream applications, which rely on the machine operator to manually tie off the processed bale.

He says the most significant innovations in the Kadant PAAL range of channel balers over the last decade have been towards efficiency and reliability.

“With energy costs continually increasing we have developed several changes, including high-efficiency axial piston pumps, which use less electricity but increase throughput; a new shear blade cutting design to shear more effectively and reduce stresses on the hydraulic system; and smarter electronics and hydraulics to produce denser, more uniform bales.”

Greatorex says these innovations, along with ease of access for maintenance and servicing result in less downtime of their balers along with increased productivity.

“The Kadant PAAL range of balers can also now be specified with remote diagnostic capabilities, requiring just an Ethernet connection,” he says. “This allows PAAL to ‘dial in’ and monitor the machine’s performance and if required, alter machine settings.”

He adds that Kadant PAAL balers can be ordered with other communication devices that interface with a MRF control system (such as Profinet). For data collection and manipulation, their balers can also send performance data to a computer showing the number of bales produced by material, total number of bales made, and provide a range of other operating parameters. Recyclers also need to consider the range and complexity of their input material when choosing a single-ram style baler for their operations.

“With a channel baler, changing of materials is a very easy process,” says Greatorex. “A bale can be tied off anytime in the production process when that material has finished. Then a recipe change (selected by a dropdown menu) alters the parameters of the machine, making it ready for the new material to be baled. This process stops cross-contamination of bales and allows information about the bale ejected at the end of the process to be stored and re-processed when baling the same material next time.”

He adds that if one compares channel balers to two-ram balers, the former provide vastly increased production capa-

bility, flexibility in materials being processed and ease when changing materials.

“With channel balers, there are no mixed contaminants in bales when changing grades,” he says. “They have a smaller footprint and cheaper consumables with less usage.” He adds that there is also no downtime of the baler if there is a tying issue because channel balers have four or five wire-tie systems.

“If there is a problem with one of the ties, the machine can still operate with the others, without having a detrimental effect on the form and shape of the bale,” continues Greatorex. “Whereas with tworam balers, when the tying system is inoperable, the machine and system is stopped.

“I think the next innovation to come in the baler industry will be smart parts and ordering systems, in which wear parts, when worn, will notify the customer and baler manufacturer that they need to be replaced,” he says. “Along with smart service notifications, where the machine notifies users it needs a service, this equates to increased reliability and baler performance.

It allows proactive maintenance and minimized downtime by resolving potential issues before they arise.

This will significantly reduce non-profitable manhours and paperwork.” RPN

Kadant PAAL KONTI Kadant PAAL KONTI automatic channel balers are manufactured in Europe and available in North America through Bulk Handling Systems (BHS). The Konti channel baler delivers high throughput and bale weights with low energy consumption. These machines are fully automatic, providing a combination of extreme pressing forces, high production rates and independence from the complexity of prepressing systems. The PAAL Konti range is offered with either verticaltie or horizontal-tie, or with a cross-tie option for more difficult material.

Units can also be supplied with pre-baling options such as a ruffle or perforator to maximize performance with particular material types.

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With evenly distributed material, the Bollegraaf baler is designed to produce stable bales and has a reduced risk of wire breakage. Whether using steel wire, PP or PET wire, these balers are highly suitable to bale even the most difficult waste streams.

A key option available on the HBC-120S, according to Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, the North American distributor of Bollegraaf balers, is a PrePress Flap, which the company says allows operation at very high throughputs by pressing a charge of material, while subsequently preparing the next full charge. This can reduce a facility’s electric bill by up to 50 percent, reduce maintenance and labour costs, and allows baling of tough materials, including catalogues, roll stock, SBS and Gaylord boxes. It also helps operators make perfectly square and dense bales with even distribution, and which stack well.

The latest innovative upgrades that have been incorporated in the Bollegraaf HBC-120S single-ram horizontal baler include a hydraulic lift for needles, Hardox wear-resistant steel plates, double channel pressure, double wires, and a self-learning/ adaptive channel pressure control (a self-regulating control that adapts to the material being baled in the channel and can increase the bale weight by 10–20 percent).

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Quebec-based Machinex designs and manufactures singleram high-capacity balers with processing capability up to approximately 85 tons of material per hour, specifically to help streamline MRF and other recycling operations.

Machinex single-ram MLP Series balers are available in a range of sizes and capacities, and are engineered to provide easy and accessible maintenance, reduced bale handling costs, optimal baling density, and energy efficiency.

Options include an exclusive pre-fill valve, as well as patented pre-press and shear technology. The pre-fill valve (part of the hydraulics system) provides a faster dry-cycle time that exceeds up to 2.7 times the speed obtained by other balers available on the market, and results in a significant reduction in energy consumption, according to Machinex. By adding pre-press and shear technology, the company adds that operators can significantly reduce their downtime and increase efficiency.

Harris IPS Conquest II Designed specifically to process high-grade paper, OCC, ONP and newspaper with high efficiency, Harris IPS Conquest highperformance balers are engineered to dramatically increase production while virtually eliminating bridging problems. The Conquest’s innovative design eliminates preconditioning, with no fluffer required to bale high grades.

These machines will bale up to 45 tph of OCC, and up to 60–90 tph of ONP, providing consistent bale integrity, which assures maximum export weights.

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American Baler 8043HSL-11225 The 8043HSL-11225 is the next generation of American Baler’s most popular single-ram recycling baler.

According to the company, the 8043 has proven itself as a workhorse in hundreds of recycling centres around the world.

“We have combined the quickness of our 10-inch compaction system with the force of a 12-inch cylinder – also combining a new 225 hp unit,” explains American Baler’s Mike Schwinn.

The 8043-11225 single-ram baler features a large feed opening (80 x 43 inches, up to 80 x 70 inches) and up to 30 tons per hour capacity processing OCC. Other key features include: export bale capability, laser ram positioning, a cylinder drive inserter system and Category-3 safety.

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s thoughts turn to Spring, the work of the organic recycling industry goes into hyperaction. Ongoing processing

provides the basis for critical emphasis on sales and availability of compost for a variety of purposes and end markets.

But the compost sales season is short and highly dependent on weather conditions.

As far as internalities go, while our industry’s facilities now have established manufacturing systems to turn incoming feedstocks from raw to quality finished compost, as well as digestate, the precision of control over processes and final products remains very dependent on the physical quality of input material. This quality is

highly impacted by the everyday decisions of residents and businesses and by what they choose to toss into an organics collection container.

Unlike the backyard compost bin, which more than ever is tied to the gardening interests of the household to which it belongs, the easy anonymity of large-scale collection brings challenges – particularly when the green

bin or other organics collection container is viewed simply as an alternative to the garbage bin, rather than the means to return valuable resources back to our soils.

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lastword affect composting conditions and the ultimate quality of our soil products.

As members of the industry, we know the importance of nutrient cycling.

We have realized the joy of turning organic “waste” into its higher purpose – to complete life’s cycle, to “feed the soil.”

We still, however, have a long way to go to instill this purpose-filled motivation throughout our “collection army” and networks – but the effort is essential to bump up the quality, and quantity, of our industry’s final product.

Two recent initiatives of the Compost Council of Canada have roles to play in the industry education effort. The recent completion of the Biology of Soil Health education program, supported by the Agricultural Adaptation Council and Growing Forward 2, as well as Greening Waste Management from the Bottom Up, supported by Ontario’s Partners in Climate Action, are both providing the means to develop communication messages to inspire and motivate.

With a rallying cry of “Be a Soil Builder”, the Biology of Soil Health program has been created to educate farmers about the critters of the soil food web, the workforce beneath our feet responsible for natural fertility, soil aggregation and disease suppression, while also helping sequester carbon.

Through an interactive workshop, complete with microscopes to examine soils brought in by farmers, print and audio workbooks as well as interactive quizzes, the agricultural community is introduced to the soil community and the many micro- and macro-organisms which they can put to work for increased fertility, productivity and to help combat climate change.

The learning shared in these sessions is presented in a way that allows farmers to draw their own conclusions, deciding how best to encourage and motivate their soil’s workforce to attain better, more sustainable results through improved soil health.

With the Compost Council of Canada’s agricultural workshop package now prepared and with sessions completed through our recent COMPOST MATTERS regional workshops, we will be morphing this learning module into sessions that will be equally relevant and motivational for gardeners, landscapers and other groups that work with soils.

A second recent initiative, Greening Waste Management, is a partnership between the CCC and the DUKE HEIGHTS Business Improvement Association (BIA), an organization which represents over 2,500 businesses in the northwestern part of Toronto, employing more than 32,000 employees.

In this initiative, 25 to 30 businesses will be voluntarily participating in an examination of their current waste management practices, with their employees being educated on the links between waste and climate change. Following waste audits, custodial and employee teams will be created and then supported to develop a “Carbon Challenge Plan” to increase waste diversion as well as reduction and other zero-waste efforts, while also reflecting the practicality of economics.

Finding a way to involve and motivate as well as achieving quality diversion are fundamental to this initiative’s goals. Any successful results will not only be incorporated within the participating businesses and throughout the BIA, but will also become available for others to adopt.

Compost has such an essential role for life on this planet. It is our duty to find the means and ways to capture the organic residuals that we all create – at our workplace, at home and throughout our daily routines.

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