1. Sort Today Save Tomorrow
The Township of Southgate
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Where is Southgate?
Southgate
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Southgate is located in Grey County
7354 residents
2987 residential households
72 seasonal homes
80 commercial/industrial properties.
491 collection kilometers
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Waste Resources and Diversion Management Department Staff
3 full time drivers
3 part time transfer station attendants
Administration assistant
Public Works Manager
Fleet Manager
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Then and Now
Amalgamation (3 communities):
1st: pick up recycling & waste with a dump
2nd: landfill with recycling, no curbside
3rd: landfill without recycling
Cost for the cart system program in 2003 rollout along with closing two landfills and designing two transfer stations was $3.4 million
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Southgate’s Cart System
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Operations:
2 Transfer Stations
1 Landfill with a scale
Own all land within the Contaminant Attenuation Zone (CAZ)
Compost Facility
2 closed monitored Landfills
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Dundalk
Transfer
Station
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Egremont
Transfer
Station
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Funded Services
Orange Drop – Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste
moves every three months
Used oil tank, used
antifreeze tank, filters
and plastics
Electronics
Tires
Blue Box Recycling
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Non-funded Services
White goods and scrap metal
Drywall and shingles
Clothing bins
Reuse items
Recycle cart upgrade exchange
Brush and dirty wood
Compost (finished product) 240 litres for free or trailer load for $30
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Outdoor Compost Facility
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Compost Facility
organics automated curbside collection program since 2003
outdoor windrow receiving system on a large asphalt pad
working organics pile reaches approximately ° Celsius to breakdown weeds, food, bones, etc.
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Participate in
Compost Canada’s
Giant Pumpkin
Growing Contest
Every Year
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Current Collection Truck
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Collection Truck Information
The average life span for a collection truck has a 7 to 10 year cycle
In 2016 for the 2013 Labrie Autocar Truck
Maintenance $31,739.12
Materials and supplies $6,995.40
Fuel and oil $29,595.73
No WSIB claims
Two camera’s in each truck, inside the hopper and on the windshield
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What’s Wrong With this Picture?
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Customer Service
Call received from an irate resident stating that their waste and compost carts hadn’t been picked up
Communication with collection driver to drop off the camera card for that day
Video is reviewed and determined the resident didn’t have their carts out
Resident contacted and shown no carts were out and a time stamped screen shot of the location
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Promotion and Education
Visit schools including private schools
Inside my Blue Cart Stickers
From your Green Cart Back to the Earth Stickers
Magnets for collection trucks
Have booth at local festivals
Organics Origami
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Public Liaison Committee
Mandated in Landfill ECA from MOECC
Terms
Resident involvement
Public Education
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Composition Audit
The last audit was completed in 2013 with a summer student and PLC member
Waste Cart Materials by Weight Recycling Cart Material By Weight
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Costs
Gas monitoring costs
Trucking to divert shingles
Engineering charges
Diverting items without funding
Carts supplied for events free
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Benefits of Owning a Compactor
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Challenges
Bulky plastics
Carpet – requirement specific size & dry
Bale Wrap
Plastic Bags in organics
Rising costs for services without funding
Habits of the human nature
Mattresses and other non-reusable furniture
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Thank you
Jim Ellis
ext. 224
Tracey Dupuis
ext. 233
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