YORK1 Field Recycling Ltd. - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

This application is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval for the use and operation of a waste processing site to be used for the recycling, processing and transfer of solid non-hazardous waste generated from residential, industrial, institutional and commercial sectors, including construction and demolition waste, inert materials including concrete, brick/block, asphalt and gravel, blue box recyclable materials, tires, and excess soil and rock for beneficial reuse. The waste processing is limited to stockpiling, sorting, segregation, and compaction. The soil will be segregated from debris, blended, stockpiled and re-sampled.

The proposed recycling facility has a maximum daily receiving rates of 890 tonnes of solid non-hazardous waste and 1,350 tonnes of excess soil/rock for beneficial reuse per day. The maximum limits of 1,075 tonnes of non-hazardous waste stored indoors, of 5,160 tonnes of excess soil/rock, and of 1,327.5 tonnes of inert materials, metals, shingles, segregated recyclables, and wood waste stored outdoors are proposed for the facility. The waste and soil recycling, processing and transfer site is to serve the Province of Ontario.

The planned receiving and operation hours are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The proposal also includes the following:

• construction of a new processing/transfer building capable of indoor storage of all incoming mixed solid non-hazardous waste and blue box recyclable materials with an office addition
• construction of a soil storage bunker
• installation of a truck scale with a scale house
• construction of swales for stormwater management