Curbside Recycling in Niagara A Pictorial Overview.
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Curbside Recycling in Niagara
A Pictorial Overview
• not-for-profit organization• employs > 50 people• employs developmentally
challenged Niagara adults• Materials Recovery Facility
( MRF ) • sorting lines• magnetic and eddy current
separation systems• high density bailing system• ecoglass recycling line
4935 Kent Avenue,Niagara Falls, ON
• contractor for Niagara’s 12 area municipalities
• 140,000 households • collection and
processing services for:> 200 industrial and
commercial customers
> 250 schools within the Niagara Region
4935 Kent Avenue,Niagara Falls, ON
• 1974: Niagara Training and Employment Agency recycling program - training and employment for developmentally challenged adults
• incorporated as the Niagara Training and Employment Agency (NTEC) in 1978.
• Became Niagara Recycling in late 1970s
1974-79: • curbside collection of newspaper
(residents requested via telephone)1979: • monthly curbside newspaper
collection began1985 (Pelham): Blue Box • glass bottles, jars and steel cans
soon followed • twice-monthly collection began• recycling collection became linked
to regular garbage collection days
1986:• multi-material curbside
recycling programs in Thorold, Port Colborne, Welland, Pelham and Niagara Falls
1988:• first curbside collection of
PET plastic in Ontario (pilot program in Pelham)
1989:• curbside recycling programs
implemented in all 12 municipalities
• Blue Box Program expanded to rural households in several municipalities
1990s:• aluminum cans and foil added
1994:• HDPE plastic bottles• boxboard• cardboard• Kraft paper• polystyrene • fine paper • junk mail
1995:• LDPE • PP • polycoat containers• plastic film
Late 1990s:
Alternating Blue Box / Gray Box collection (mixed recyclables / paper and film)
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