1. Curbside Battery Collection
Grace McKenzie Region of Peel
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Region of Peel
Pop. 1.4 million
Mississauga
Brampton
Caledon
330,000 homes
Bi-weekly Carts
The Region of Peel has a population of approxmately 1.4 million
We have 3 lower tier municipalities that make up the Region of Peel Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon
In January 2016 the Region of Peel introduced a new Bi-weekly Cart based collection program , recycling and garbage pickups biweekly and organics pickup weekly.
35,000 residents remain on a bag based system due to inabililty of collection vehicles to get into the townhouse complexs.
Our Curbside collection contract services 340,000 collection points broken up into 3 major zones. North, South East and South West
We have 2 collection contractors Emterra who is responsible for the North and South West Collection zones and Progressive which is responsible for the South East Collection Zones.
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Collection Data
Collected approximately 16 tonnes
By Zones our North and South West Zones collected the most over the 2 weeks being approx 9.1 tonnes
The South East zone saw a 1.2 tonne decrease in week 2
ROP was batteries collected by our Curbside representatives that collected batteries that residents put out on the wrong collection week
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Contamination Data
There was Approx 6% contamination that was removed from the battery bags
From that 6 % the largest % was Wet Cell batteries primarily sealed lead acid batteries from computer back up or kids power wheel toys which was 54%
The second largest was Rechargeable batteries which was 42% by weight and was mainly cell phone batteries and lap top batteries
We did not remove the smaller rechargeable batteries such as the AAA or AA
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Program Logistics
2 x year spring and fall
Bags distributed
Place on organics cart
Recycling week
Processed at Fewster
Our Council approved a one year pilot to be completed in 2016.
2 collection times to coincide with daylight savings time
March 15-Mar 25 and a fall event from November 7 to November 18.
We purchased zip lock polyethlene bags and distributed to every home in peel
Residents were instructed to place their full battery bags on top of their organics carts during their Recycling Weeks
All batteries were brought to the Fewster Community Recycling Centre for Processing
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2 collection systems
1 used a box truck
1 used collection vehicles
Box truck direct to Fewster CRC
Collection vehicles went to MRF
Box truck collected pails of batteries from the collection vehicles and brought them directly to Fewster
One contractor the collection vehicles dropped off at the MRF.
One contractor used pails to collect
One used our old green bins to collect
Material that went to the MRF was brought to the Fewster CRC by Regional staff for processing
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Processing
Did not debag the batteries
Removed noticeable contamination
Designed a sorting table
Rented a electric pump cart that would raise the skids to the table height so batteries could be easily dumped onto the table
Staff removed very noticeable contamination only and moved batteries into drums on skids
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Communication
Battery collection weeks on Calendar
Region of Peel Website and Video
Mobile signs
Mailed bags with an organics cart Ad piece
News Release and Regional Ad
Social Media
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Grace McKenzie
ext. 3966
MWA Spring Workshop May 2016