As costs climb, external report calls for Metro Vancouver to abandon district waste-to-energy system that burns garbage; committee members says they're hearing 'mixed messages.'
Metro Vancouver residents reduced the amount of garbage they produced every year by about 172 kilograms per person between 2010 and 2020 — equivalent to 476,000 tonnes or the weight of about four CN Towers, a new report has found.
Over the course of a decade, the study found the cost to dispose waste in a landfill grew four per cent, while its waste-to-energy operations climbed 22 per cent. Future maintenance on the incinerator is expected to raise costs even higher. “The Burnaby incinerator has been one of the top 25 industrial point sources of GHGs for the past 10 years,” read a summary presented to Metro Vancouver’s zero waste committee Thursday. “For an energy source, waste to energy is the most GHG intense form of energy.”
“If you cut your waste in half, your landfill lifespan doubles,” said Maxwell. “What if we scaled that up?” “District energy is a great system. But it really needs to be based on only renewable and clean energy and which waste to energy is not,” Maxwell told the committee.
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