MUNICIPALITY BY MUNICIPALITY: Are we reaching a crisis?

Not a single municipality surveyed by Metroland is hitting its waste diversion target, despite ambitious plans. Landlls are overowing, causing problems.

DIVERSION DIVERSION MUNICIPALITY RATE TARGET

Barrie Durham Region Guelph Halton Region Hamilton Kawartha Lakes 47.14% 50.61% 44.14% 54.28% 45.63% 39.38% 55% (under review) 70% by 2015 65% by 2016 60% (under review)* 65% by 2011 (under review)* 60% (under review)*

DISPOSAL FACILITY
Barrie Landll Modern Landll Inc. Brock Landll Green Lane Landll Halton Waste Mgmt. Site Glanbrook Landll Laxton Digby Longford Landll Eldon Landll Somerville Landll Fenelon Landll Lindsay/OPS Landll

LOCATION
Barrie Model City, NY Brock St. Thomas Milton Hamilton Norland Kirkeld Burnt River Cameron Lindsay Gravenhurst Huntsville Welland West Lincoln Niagara Falls Brighton Campbellford Ottawa Watford Peterborough Peterborough Simcoe Simcoe Simcoe Waterloo Niagara Falls Massachusetts St. Thomas

LANDFILL CAPACITY (years remaining)

12 years (re-engineering project extended life) 2 years left in Brock Landll (Incinerator opens in 2014) 13 years 20 years 24 years 28 years (Eldon will reach capacity in 2014)

Muskoka

48.36%

60% by 2012

Gravenhurst Landll Stisted Landll

23 years (Bracebridge takes waste after Gravenhurst and Stisted close within 6 years) 35 years (Humberstone will reach capacity in 2016) 5 years 19 years 23 years 17 years (1 section to close in August) 17 years (1 section to close in August) 6 years left for 3 of Simcoes landlls 19 years 13 years

Niagara

43.99%

65% by 2012

Humberstone Landll Niagara Regional Rd. 12 Landll Niagara Waste Systems

Northumberland Ottawa Peel City of Peterborough County of Peterborough County of Simcoe

39.53% 33.21% 49.98% 50.54% 37.91% 57.18%

No target (Under review)* 40% by 2012 70% by 2016 50% (Under review)* 50% (Under review)* 71% by 2020

Brighton Landll Seymour Landll Trail Waste Facility Twin Creeks Sanitary Landll Peterborough County/City Waste Management Facility Peterborough County/City Waste Management Facility Oro Landll Tosorontio Nottawasaga

Waterloo Region York

50.57% 56.99%

No target (Under review)* 70% by 2016

Waterloo Waste Mgmt. Site Niagara Waste Systems WeCare Organics Green Lane Landll (contingency site)

*Under review indicates that the municipality is in the process of developing or updating their waste management master plan with a new diversion target to be established. SOURCES: WASTE DIVERSION ONTARIO 2009 STATISTICS, THE MUNICIPALITIES Thana Dharmarajah, Donald Campbell, Dean Tweed // THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR