Design, Build, and Operation of Waste Facilities

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York Region Waste Management Centre
York Region
2005 - 2007
East Gwillimbury, Ontario

Project Description:
Miller designed, built, commissioned and currently operates York Region's Waste Management Centre under a fifteen year operating agreement. The facility, at 150,000 ft2 is one of the first "Single Stream" recycling facilities to be built in Canada and one of the most technically advanced recycling centres in North America. The facility includes the MRF and a transfer station for source seperated organics and residual waste. The centre processes all of York Region's Blue Box material collected from the Region's 950,000 residents as well as the organic and residual waste from the Region's northern municipalities. The Centre has processing capacity for 70,000 metric tonnes of Blue Box material annually where it separates into various marketable products using automated mechanical equipment and manual separation systems. Miller also markets all of the materials processed at the facility on behalf of the Region.

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The Earl Turcott Waste Management Facility
York Region
2005-2007
Markham, Ontario

  

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Miller has designed, built and commissioned one of the largest and most advanced waste transfer stations in Canada. At 90,00 square feet, the facility receives and processes York Region's Southern Municipalities Blue Box, Green Bin and Residual Waste, as well as over 150,000 metric tonnes of ICI and C&D waste annually.

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Halifax Regional Municipality Ebara In-vessel Composting Facility
Halifax Regional Municipality
January 1999 to Present
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

  

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Miller designed and built its Halifax Ebara In-vessel composting facility to process the Halifax Regional Municipality's (HRM) residential organic waste. The facility opened in 1999 and Miller is currently operating under a 20 year agreement with HRM. The facility incorporates the Japanese designed EBARA technology which Miller has exclusive rights to in Canada. The key to the facility is the Ebara paddle wheel which provides uniform turning of the organic material throughout the compost pad. The facility has a 25,000 metric tonne per year processing capacity and provides optimum conditions of temperature and moisture for compost production. The facility operates under negative pressure which contains the odours inside the facility and forces them through a biofilter before releasing into the atmosphere.

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Durham Region Ebara In-vessel Composting Facility
Durham Region
2004-2006
Pickering, Ontario

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Miller designed, built and commissioned its Pickering Ebara In-vessel composting facility to process Durham Region's residential source seperated organic "Green Bin" material. The facility design is based on Miller's flagship Halifax facility consisting of two mirror image composting vessels with processing capacity for 50,000 metric tonnes of organic material annually. The facility opened in 2006 and is integrated with Miller's Pickering Waste Management Site that includes a Material Recycling Facility, a Waste Transfer Station, Public Drop Off, Hazardous Waste Depot and a C&D processing area.

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Clarington Outdoor Windrow Composting Facility
Durham Region
2005-2007
Clarington, Ontario

  
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Miller opened its second Outdoor Windrow Compost Site in 2007 to process leaf and yard waste and clean wood from the Regional Municipality of Durham. The site also receives processed organic material from the Pickering Ebara In-vessel facility for final curing and preparation for marketing. The site has approvals for 50,000 metric tonnes of processing capacity and potential for future expansion when required. The site produces a variety of soil and mulch products and expands Miller's presence in compost and soil production.

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Lunenburg Ebara Compost Facility
Town of Lunenburg
1994-1995
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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Miller redesigned and retrofitted this facility for the Municipality of Lunenburg in 1996. Miller used their exclusively Canadian licensed Ebara Wide Bed Composting System technology in this facility for its widely recognized efficiency and low capital and operating costs.

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Ottawa Valley Material Recovery Facility
Township of Laurentian Valley
May 2001 - September 2001
Pembroke, Ontario

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Miller was the successful proponent to design and build the Material Recovery Facility as part of the Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre. The facility was completed in 2001 and designed to process 10,000 tonnes per year of all of the Blue Box recyclable material collected in two streams as loose fibres and bag based commingled containers.

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City of Toronto Container Material Recovery Facility
City of Toronto
North York, Ontario

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In 1998 Miller designed, built and began operating this 6 tonne/hour (25,000 tonne/year) recyclable container stream processing facility to serve the City of Toronto. As such the facility was designed to be modular and therefore expandable in nature, to a total capacity of 40,000 tonnes/year of recyclable container materials. Thirteen staff, including management, maintenance, material sorters and machine operators operated the facility under Miller's operating tenure. This initial contract was of 4 years in duration, with an initial capital expenditure of $5 million for facility design and implementation.  This facility at the time represented a state of the art processing facility upgrade for the City of Toronto, and provided the City with the necessary container stream processing capacity to move into the new millennium.

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Northumberland Two-Stream Material Recovery Facility
Northumberland County, Ontario
1995 - 1997
Grafton, Ontario

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Miller designed, built and operated this facility up to the end of 1997 for the County of Northumberland processing all of their Blue Box recyclable material. Miller designed this facility to receive the County's commingled dry recyclables collected in two streams (containers and fibres) where it is seperated and sorted into marketable materials (metals, plastics, glass, and paper products). The facility has a processing capacity of 50,000 tonnes annually.

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Pictou County Ebara Compost Facility
Pictou County
2000
Pictou, Nova Scotia

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Miller designed and built this facility for the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia. The facility processes the residential organic waste from the county and is capable of processing 5,000 tonnes annually.

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Owen Sound Transfer Station
Grey Bruce County
October 2004 to June 2005
Owen Sound, Ontario

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Miller designed and built their Owen Sound Transfer Station to meet the growing needs for waste disposal options in Bruce County, Ontario. The Transfer Station is permitted to receive 300 tonnes per day and can process 60 tonnes per hour. The waste from the facility is currently shipped to landfill sites in the State of Michigan.

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Bales Road Maintenance Shop and Waste Transfer Station
Miller Waste Systems
September 2003 to August 2005
East Gwillimbury, Ontario

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Miller opened the maintenance shop to service the vehicles of their northern based collection contracts. The Transfer Station was designed and built to accommodate the growing need for additional ICI and C&D disposal capacity in northern York Region. The facility is permitted to receive 300 tonnes per day and can process 60 tonnes per hour.

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Miller Waste Pickering Transfer Station
Durham Region
2002-2003
Pickering, Ontario

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Miller constructed its new waste transfer station as part of their Integrated Waste Management Site to meet the growing demands of Durham Region for waste processing, diversion and disposal. The transfer station receives residual waste as well as waste from Miller's commercial customer base in Durham Region. The facility was designed with the state of the art conveyor, compactor and scale technology to ensure maximum payload of outbound waste shipments are achieved.