This consultation was open from:
July 31, 2025
to September 14, 2025
Decision summary
The Ministry has issued an amendment to existing Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) Number A100318 for a Waste Disposal Site (transfer/processing) with a total area of 1.78 hectares located at 112 Adams Boulevard, Brantford, Ontario.
Location details
Site address
112 Adams Boulevard
Brantford,
ON
Canada
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GFL Environmental Services Inc.
100 New Park Place, Suite 500
Vaughan,
ON
L4K 0H9
Canada
Decision details
The Ministry has issued an amendment to existing Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) Number A100318 for a Waste Disposal Site (transfer/processing) with a total area of 1.78 hectares located at 112 Adams Boulevard, Brantford, Ontario. This site is owned and will be operated by GFL Environmental Services Inc., with headquarters located at 100 New Park Place #500, Vaughan, ON L4K 0H9.
The function of the site is to receive, process and/or consolidate liquid industrial waste, hazardous waste, solid non-hazardous waste and Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste (MHSW) all generated within Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the United States. The site may accept, transfer, and process waste 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
GFL is requesting the following additions/changes:
Service area of North America;
Virgin product storage (containerized and in tanks) and operation of a commercial service for the re-packaging of flammable and combustible products (such as gun wash, solvents, and others) including solvent dispensing and distillation;
Addition of a 200 square metres building comprised of concrete reinforced containment walls, and concrete reinforced slab, for the installation of three mixing and solidification pads with containment curbs, having a maximum storage capacity of 150 tonnes, interchangeably designed (cleaned between changes from hazardous to non-hazardous and vice versa) for storage and processing of either non-hazardous or hazardous semi-solids, sludges and solids, with solidification materials (such as kiln dust, wood chips, steel making ladle slag, magnesium/calcium, phosphate mixtures, Portland cement, ferrous sulfate mixtures, sodium sulfide, sodium/potassium silicate, car shredder fluff and other absorbents) before final disposal at MECP approved disposal facilities.
Shredder(s) adjacent to the mixing/solidification pad area to reduce the size and complexity of non-hazardous solids, sludges and liquids to be processed in the mixing/solidification pads;
Addition of up to three doubled walled storage tanks in the Wastewater Treatment Innovation Center building, with a maximum capacity of 6,000 liters each, for the consolidation and processing of inorganic and organic oxidizer waste;
Updates to the current approved wastewater treatment equipment (evaporators, strippers, centrifuge, and others) to treat (pH adjustment, coagulation, precipitation of metals, flocculation, filtration/screening, gravity separation/settling, demulsification) onsite captured dike/secondary containment stormwater for sanitary sewer discharge (sanitary sewer discharge permit/agreement will be obtained prior to any discharge);
Implementation of similar and more efficient equipment (due to changes in technology over time), associated with all equipment/apparatuses for the current operation, by updating the Design and Operations Report and notifying the local MECP District Office prior to the proposed changes being implemented.
Effects of consultation
The Ministry considered this comment during its review of the application. The questions and concerns raised were addressed through the engineering assessment. As part of the technical review, the Ministry requested additional information from the proponent regarding waste acceptance procedures, waste characterization, sampling and testing protocols before and after processing, transportation requirements, receiving facilities, and the proposed treatment and processing activities at the Site. The information provided addressed these matters, and corresponding site-specific conditions were incorporated into the Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) to address the concerns identified.
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40 St. Clair Avenue West
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Toronto,
ON
M4V 1M2
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from September 3, 2026 to begin the appeal process.
Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.
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Start the process to appeal
If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
GFL Environmental Services Inc.
100 New Park Place, Suite 500
Vaughan,
ON
L4K 0H9
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.
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Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for an amendment to existing Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) number A100318 for a Waste Disposal Site (transfer/processing) with a total area of 1.78 hectares located at 112 Adams Boulevard, Brantford, Ontario. This site is owned and will be operated by GFL Environmental Services Inc., with headquarters located at 100 New Park Place #500, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 0H9.
The function of the site is to receive, process and/or consolidate liquid industrial waste, hazardous waste, solid non-hazardous waste and Municipal Hazardous and Special Waste (MHSW) all generated within Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the United States. The site may accept, transfer, and process waste 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
GFL is requesting the following additions/changes:
- service area of North America
- virgin product storage (containerized and in tanks) and operation of a commercial service for the re-packaging of flammable and combustible products (such as gun wash, solvents, and others) including solvent dispensing and distillation
- addition of a 200 square meters building comprised of concrete reinforced containment walls, and concrete reinforced slab, for the installation of three mixing and solidification pads with containment curbs, having a maximum storage capacity of 150 tonnes, interchangeably designed (cleaned between changes from hazardous to non-hazardous and vice versa) for storage and processing of either non-hazardous or hazardous semi-solids, sludges and solids, with solidification materials (such as kiln dust, wood chips, steel making ladle slag, magnesium/calcium, phosphate mixtures, Portland cement, ferrous sulfate mixtures, sodium sulfide, sodium/potassium silicate, car shredder fluff and other absorbents) before final disposal at MECP approved disposal facilities
- shredder(s) adjacent to the mixing/solidification pad area to reduce the size and complexity of non-hazardous solids, sludges and liquids to be processed in the mixing/solidification pads
- addition of up to three doubled walled storage tanks in the Wastewater Treatment Innovation Center building, with a maximum capacity of 6,000 litres each, for the consolidation and processing of inorganic and organic oxidizer waste
- updates to the current approved wastewater treatment equipment (evaporators, strippers, centrifuge, and others) to treat (pH adjustment, coagulation, precipitation of metals, flocculation, filtration/screening, gravity separation/settling, demulsification) onsite captured dike/secondary containment stormwater for sanitary sewer discharge (sanitary sewer discharge permit/agreement will be obtained prior to any discharge)
- implementation of similar and more efficient equipment (due to changes in technology over time), associated with all equipment/apparatuses for the current operation, by updating the Design and Operations Report and notifying the local MECP District Office prior to the proposed changes being implemented
Supporting materials
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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.
Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 2
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1M2
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from July 31, 2025
to September 14, 2025
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