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WASTE NOT, WANT NOT City rolls out revised waste diversion targets

stewardship and education program. The remaining 10 per cent was to be addressed through emerging waste-toenergy technologies in the non-residential sector. In the new report, the City estimates it will achieve 60 per cent diversion by 2020. CODY STUART Since the plan was rolled out in 2007 managing editor – two years prior to the introduction of the City’s blue recycling bins and at a time when the waste diversion rate he City of Calgary is rolling out stood at just 20 per cent – Ebersohn revised waste diversion targets says the City now has a better grasp on after a report labelled the previhow much waste is coming to Calgary ous targets as “ambitious.” landfills. According to Ebersohn, of The new goal, which calls for 80 per the 750,000 tonnes of waste coming to cent of Calgary’s garbage to be diverted Calgary’s three landfills, 500,000 tonnes from city landfills are divertible. by the year 2025, Along with replaces the prethe upcoming vious goal of 80 introduction of per cent by the recycling in the year 2020. multi-family secAccording tor, which comto the report’s prises 13 per cent author, City of of the waste in Calgary waste city landfills, the services planner eventual rollout Dick Ebersohn, of a large-scale the revised composting progoal takes into gram represents account infora major area for mation gathered improvement, since the inisaid Ebersohn. tial rollout, thus “That will making it more have a massive achievable. impact on what “At the point we can divert,” in time that we he said of multiactually set the family and organtarget for Calgary ics recycling. ARENI KELLEPPAN we didn’t have as Un d e r t h e EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GREEN CALGARY much informaoriginal 80/20 tion that we have diversion plan, today,” he said. “Today, we’re at a point the green cart recycling program was where we could say almost with cer- to be introduced in 2010. Organic matetainty that we will be able to achieve the rial comprises 39 per cent of the waste target that we have set out there.” in Calgary landfills – more than recySet in 2007, 70 per cent of the city’s clables (15 per cent) and residual waste 80/20 by 2020 waste diversion strategy (20 per cent). was to be achieved in part through a combination of as recycling and comWASTE A3 posting, banning material from landfills,

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WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK THE CITY IS UNDERTAKING WHEN IT COMES TO THE NON-RESIDENTIAL SECTOR. COULD IT BE FASTER? COULD IT MOVE MORE QUICKLY? ABSOLUTELY, BUT I THINK THEY’VE TAKEN A POSITIVE STEP FORWARD”

City of Calgary waste services planner Dick Ebersohn says multi-family and organics recycling will have a ‘massive impact’ on how much waste can be diverted from landfills.

MLS® MONTH END INVENTORY* NOV ‘13 – NOV ‘15

NOV13 2743 DEC13 1765 JAN14 2181 FEB14 2641 MAR14 3033 APR14 3820 4528 MAY14 4759 JUN14 4678 JUL14 4591 AUG14 4559 SEP14 4162 OCT14 3826 NOV14 3213 DEC14 4655 JAN15 5474 FEB15 5693 MAR15 5579 APR15 5342 MAY15 5070 JUN15 5055 JUL15 5146 AUG15 5526 SEP15 5578 OCT15 5316 NOV15

CITY OF CALGARY

CODY STUART, Managing Editor

CITY GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO NEW SEWER LINE

MLS®C4041368

MLS®C4039914

$599,900

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FIVE THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4

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GREEN LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6

evelopers in several northwest communities will finally be able to move forward with construction with news the City of Calgary has begun installing a new sewage pipeline through Bowness. The two-kilometre Bowness Sanitary Trunk will largely be dug with the help of a German machine which will work “around the clock” to drill a one-metre wide tunnel from 13th Avenue N.W. to Bow Crescent N.W.

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1-4

$549,900

MARKET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3

CMHC outlook

MUNICIPAL A3

COMING SOON

$429,900

NEWS BRIEFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3

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