The facilities Metro Vancouver ships garbage to are in Washington and Oregon, and they received 85,000 tonnes in 2017 and 59,000 in 2018.
Metro Vancouver has sent almost 150,000 tonnes of municipal trash to landfills in Washington and Oregon over the past two years.
Last year, Metro Vancouver generated 918,000 tonnes of waste, after recycling and other diversion efforts, for disposal. That is slightly up from the 903,000 tonnes produced in 2017. According to a contract award report for contingency disposal, the deals with Republic and Waste Management are worth up to $21 million and $25 million over three years, respectively. Metro can send up to 50,000 tonnes of trash per year to each company.
Janet Prichard, the municipal manager, post collection, for Republic Services, said the 75,060 tonnes processed from B.C. contracts last year — 34,591 of which came from Metro — accounted for 3.4 per cent of the total waste it accepted. He said there is also potential for disruptions because the trash is transported by container truck and rail.
Metro had intended to build a second incinerator somewhere in the region to burn 250,000 tonnes of trash, but that idea was abandoned in 2015 because of uncertainty around waste volumes. It intends to re-examine its waste-to-energy options this year.
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