Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek speaks at the groundbreaking for Calgary's composting facility expansion, which will include new technology allowing the operation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Dignitaries gathered Monday for a ceremonial groundbreaking marking the expansion of Calgary's composting facility. The $89.6 million build-out will increase the facility's capacity by 60 per cent.Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek speaks at the groundbreaking for Calgary's composting facility expansion, which will include new technology allowing the operation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The existing facility opened in 2017 as the City of Calgary rolled out its green cart program for the curbside recycling of organic materials. "The expansion itself was the result of the uptake on the green cart program and how successful that program has been. The expansion's meant to get us through the next several years," he said.
"From a technical perspective, I think just having this existing facility here already helps us with processing all of the volumes that we're seeing. So it just made sense that the expansion stayed at this facility because there were a lot of things already in place in part of the operational infrastructure that we could utilize and continue to build upon.
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