Volume 18 No. 3 Waste not I ’m a pretty average Canadian, I think. I work Monday to Friday, 9-5, in a me-dium-sized city, and every spring I pay what feels like a lot of taxes. I respect that the climate is changing, but I’m far from living plastic-free off the grid. I try to re-cycle when I can, and feel an appropriate stab of guilt when I throw things away. Us average Canadians know we should proba-bly be doing more, but we don’t want to compromise our lifestyle to do it. So one of two things needs to happen in order for things PURE to change: either the gov-FIBRE ernment steps in to force change, or science and tech-nology offer solutions. Lately the federal gov-ernment has been doing its part. Both the national car-bon tax and the clean fuel standard are set to make historic changes to carbon pollution produced in Canada. As I’ve mentioned before and as many read-ers are aware, this will have a big impact on the Canadian bioeconomy and should spur growth over the next few years. Science and technology are also making significant and impressive strides right here in Canada. The latest is found in Surrey, B.C. The City of Surrey is now home to North America’s first integrated closed-loop organic waste management system. The Surrey Biofuel Facility turns curb-side organic waste into biofuel for the city’s fleet of natural gas vehicles. It’s a terrific solution to waste collection and processing that involves little to no ef-fort from the average citizen in Surrey. “It’s really an amazing example of what a circular economy is,” Michael Leopold, general manager of Renewi Canada – the company that designed the facility – told Pacific BioEnergy reduces machine wear with ClassiCleaner BM_MAYJUN2018.indd 1 Editor -Maria Church (226) 931-1396 [email protected] Associate Editor -Tamar Atik (416) 510-5211 [email protected] Contributors -Gordon Murray, Lesley Allan, Brier Dodge, Robynne Anderson. 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No liability is assumed for errors or omissions. All advertising is subject to the publisher’ s approval. Such approval does not imply any endorsement of the products or services advertised. Publisher reserves the right to refuse advertising that does not meet the standards of the publication. A BC city is cleaning up with garbage-fuelled garbage trucks Canadian Biomass contributor Lesley Al-lan. “The trucks are picking up waste, but they’re picking up waste that will ultimate-ly fuel them on a daily basis.” The state-of-the-art anaerobic digestion facility has two waste streams to effectively treat wet and dry waste separately. It also uses impressive technologies such as water scrubbing to remove CO2 and other impurities from the biogas, and an odour abatement system that in-cludes several steps to re-move ammonia. Read the full feature story on page 13. Best of all (for Surrey taxpayers), the $68-million facility was built without ALSO any expense to ratepayers. Funding came from the federal government’s Pub-lic-Private Partnership pro-gram, the P3 Canada Fund. It’s such an effortless solution for tax-payers. Life goes on uncompromised. Once a week, bleary-eyed Surrey citizens wake up early to drag out their trashcans to the curb for the umpteenth time. But perhaps now the weekly routine is carried out with a hint of pride, knowing their black bags are heading to a processing fa-cility rather than a landfill, brought there by trucks fuelled by the very trash they’re collecting. Congratulations to the City of Surrey for leading the way with this progressive facility. Let’s hope science continues to forge the path to a greener Canada. • May/June 2018 canadianbiomassmagazine.ca Biomass, Bioenergy and Bioproducts 2018 CBCE show guide Bio-fuelling waste collection 2018-05-18 2:54 PM www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca 4 Canadian BIOMASS
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