Waste Facility Operations

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Halifax Regional Municipality Material Recovery Facility
Halifax Regional Municipality
Halifax, Nova Scotia

   
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Miller operates the  Halifax Regional Municipality's (HRM) Material Recovery Facility.  This facility accepts and processes the source separated fibres and container streams collected in the HRM. The processing equipment is housed in a 40,000 ft.2 building.  On obtaining this contract Miller invested several million dollars in installing the latest fibre and container processing equipment during the redesign and retrofit of the facility, making it one of the most operationally successful MRF's in Canada.  The facility is staffed by 25 sorters and three management personnel. The redesigned facility has an increased processing capacity from 20,000 tonnes to 48, 000 tonnes per year. The facility receives commingled materials collected in two streams (loose fibres and bagged containers).Miller markets all recovered products from the facility.

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Owen Sound MRF Processing
Miller Waste Systems
Owen Sound, Ontario

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Miller processes the recyclable Blue Box material from the city of Owen Sound in this MRF. The materials are separated by product type and Miller markets these materials on behalf of the City as a source of revenue.

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Miller Waste Pickering Material Recovery Facility
Miller Waste Systems
Pickering, Ontario

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Miller purchased this facility and invested a substantial amount of capital in equipment and building upgrades to process Durham Region's Blue Box container material. The 50,000 square foot facility has processing capacity for 15,000 metric tonnes per year of containers and 15,000 metric tonnes per year of fibres.

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York Region Waste Management Centre
York Region
East Gwillimbury, Ontario

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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
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
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
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
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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Bales Road Maintenance Shop and Waste Transfer Station
Miller Waste Systems
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
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.