Strategy for Updating the

Solid Waste Management Plan

Public Workshop
 Presentation Overview

1. Background
2. Approach to Updating the SWMP
3. First 3 Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
4. 4th R (Recovery of Materials and Energy)
5. 5th R (Residuals)
6. Next Steps
Background
Current Facilities

1995 Solid Waste Management Plan set out MV’s management role

• Cache Creek Landfill

– Closing in 2010
• Vancouver Landfill

• Waste-to-Energy Facility
• Seven transfer stations
• Various private facilities
Background
Waste Quantities
trends in waste management
Background
Waste Quantities
recycling and disposal rates by sector
1,400,000

1,200,000 Recycled
39%
1,000,000 Disposed
(to n n es)

800,000 71%
600,000
52%
400,000
25%
200,000

0
Single Family Multi-Family Commercial (ICI) Construction
(DLC)
Background
Current Waste Quantities
composition of waste generated

Other 11%
Inorganic 3%

Non-compostable organics 4%

Plastics 4%
Recyclables
Yard and Garden 2%
52%

Food 6%

Paper & Paperboard 7%

Wood 11%
Background

• Initiated in 2006

• Goal #1:Minimize waste generation

• Goal #2:Maximize reuse, recycling and
material/energy recovery

• Public workshops, municipal workshops

• Input analyzed and considered in developing SWMP update
strategy
2. Approach to Updating the SWMP
The 5 R Hierarchy

• Reduce Reduce
• Reuse Reuse
• Recycle
Recycle
• Recovery of Materials and Energy
• Residuals Management Recover
Residuals
3. The First 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Diverting waste from landfills

• Develop regional organics management facilities

(4% additional diversion potential)
• Enhance disposal bans (4%)
• Modify demolition and building permit process (4%)
• Provide wood drop-off facilities (3%)
• Expand take-back/deposit programs
(e-waste and small appliances)(2%)
• Expand plastics collection (1%)
The First 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Organics Management Facilities

• To process:
– Yard waste
– Commercial waste
– Residential waste
– Paper and paperboard
• Decrease organic waste disposed of at landfills
• Review organics technologies and potential
sites
 The First 3 Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Waste Diversion Goal
Other 8%
Inorganic 3%

Non-compostable organics 4%

Plastics 4%
Yard and Garden 1%
Food 3%

Paper & Paperboard 3% Recyclables

70%
Wood 4%
4. The 4th R: Materials and Energy Recovery
Options for Remaining Waste

Further Investment in 3Rs

- continue to seek opportunities
- limits to diversion

Materials Recovery
- Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT)
- Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

Energy Recovery
The 4th R: Materials and Energy Recovery
Energy Recovery
• Long-term goal to eliminate landfilling of unprocessed waste
• Waste-to-Energy reduces waste to 5% of original volume
• Consider technologies and their potential environmental and air
quality effects

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in BC

• BC energy self-sufficiency by 2016 - Lower Mainland need for electricity
The 4th R: Materials and Energy Recovery
Air Quality
Metro Vancouver is committed to safeguarding the region’s air
quality through:

• 2005 Air Quality Management Plan

– minimize risk to public health
– minimize contribution to global warming
– improve visibility
• Management of a 27-station air monitoring network
Any future waste management facility will meet
the highest air emission standards
5. The 5th R - Residuals Management

• Landfills are filling up

• No waste management system avoids the need for
landfill
• Interim solutions required until new organics
management and Waste-to-Energy or other facilities
are in place by 2015
• Possible export of waste
Approach to Updating the SWMP
The 5 R Hierarchy
Proposed
Today
Strategy

Reduce
52% Reuse 70%
Recycle
8% Recover 25%

40% Residuals 5%
Integration of the SWMP with other
Metro Vancouver plans

The Solid Waste Management Plan is linked to the:

• Regional Growth Strategy

• Air Quality Management Plan

• Liquid Waste Management Plan

6. Next Steps

• Develop a draft plan

– Goals, Strategies, Actions, Measures
• Further consultation on draft plan
– public, municipal, First Nations, agency input
• Finalize plan for Board approval
• Submit plan to Ministry of Environment for final approval