changing the way communities deal with waste
City council could consider Plasco deal as early as December
October 27, 2011
OTTAWA — In what could be a game changer for the way this city manages its garbage, Ottawa officials are negotiating a long-term contract with Plasco Energy Group that could divert hundreds of thousands of tonnes of garbage from the Trail Road landfill at a cost of more than $8 million a year.
Plasco received both air and waste certificates of approval on Monday from the provincial Ministry of Environment, the brightest green light this company has seen in its five-year history with the city.
In 2005, the then-council agreed to allow Plasco to build and operate a demonstration plant at city’s Trail Road landfill. That operation was shut down in January of this year, which was the ministry-scheduled end of the pilot project. But Plasco immediately began work on the reports, studies and upgrades necessary for the approvals it needed to operate on a full-time, commercial basis going forward.
Those approvals came this week, paving the way for a multimillion-dollar, decades-long contract with the city.
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