1. Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD)
Who we are
Successes / Challenges
Yard and Garden Waste Composting

2. Who We Are 50,000 (60% municipal and 40% rural)
Salmon Arm, Sicamous, Revelstoke and Golden
6 Electoral Areas
4 Regional landfills, 8 transfer stations
Network of 18 Recycling Depots
1.5 composting facilities, 1 active LFG collection system
Team of 4
Carmen Fennell – Waste Reduction Facilitator
Isaac Walker – Facilities Superintendant
Jennifer Graham – Financial Services Assistant
Ben Van Nostrand – Waste Management Coordinator

3. Waste Characterization/ Food Waste Collection & Processing Studies

6. COLUMBIA SHUSWAP REGIONAL DISTRICT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
Gypsum Recycling
REGIONAL DISTRICT of OKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN
REGIONAL DISTRICT of NORTH OKANAGAN
COLUMBIA SHUSWAP REGIONAL DISTRICT

7. 3 years in

8. Root Ball

9. Turning Yard and Garden Waste into a Resource
Why
Infrastructure needs
Regulations
Lessons learned
Questions

11. 4.5 acres

12. 2,000 tonnes diverted to the pad.
5 Acres

14. Regulations OMRR Operating Plan -Monitoring - Sampling
Registration Letter
Follow up letter
Operating Plan
-Monitoring
- Sampling

15. 5,600 m³ of ground yard and garden waste

17. Moisture Content Importance
Windrow sizes roughly 550 m3, approx 13,000 L of water applied to each row

18. Sampling done beginning of Aug to test for nitrogen levels
Sampling done beginning of Aug to test for nitrogen levels. Less than 15 ppm for all meaning product is ready for screening and curing!

19. Over's and Screened Product

20. Finished Foreign matter <1 Avg. Moisture = 40
Trace Elements <limits
C/N ratio 20:1

21. Lessoned Learned More turning Volume reduction Moisture
Trigger points for being done
Costs
Turning
Sampling
Watering
Screening