Waste Management in Central Newfoundland Moves to Lined Landfills: The Newfoundland and Labrador municipal Authorities are moving forward with fewer landfills which are lined and include leachate treatment to produce a high quality effluent suitable for discharge to streams and rivers. This with increased diversion of waste away from landfill, by recycling seems to be putting the area "on the map" as far as its waste management practices are concrened. See the full article below our excerpt:
A new waste management facility in Norris Arm has opened, and is the first municipal landfill in the province to contain a liner to prevent landfill pollutants from leaking into the soil and water.
The new landfill is part of a provincial solid waste management strategy that has so far seen the closure of 42 landfills across central Newfoundland.
Municipal Affairs Minister - Kevin O’Brien said the plan continues to progress.
“As a result of investments to date, approximately two-thirds of the province’s population is disposing of waste in one of two lined landfills with leachate collection. Throughout our province we have reduced the number of disposal sites by over 50 per cent and almost 50 per cent of our province’s population already has access to recycling facilities,” he said in a government news release.
The main part of the project was the construction of a new landfill. These pollutants, in the form of landfill leachate, are collected and treated on site to meet strict environmental standards before the water is eventually released back into the environment.
The project also included the construction of an administration building, a maintenance garage, public drop off area, construction and demolition disposal area, weigh scales, and roads at the regional site in Norris Arm. Seven local waste management facilities, consisting of a transfer station building, public drop off and weigh scales, were built throughout the central region.
The solid waste strategy is budgeted at $64.6 million. The government is using $21.3 million of its federal Gas Tax Fund allocation toward eligible costs. The remaining $43.3 million was funded by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Municipal Capital Works Program.
“The goals of the Provincial Solid Waste Management Strategy are to reduce the amount of materials in provincial landfill sites by 50 per cent, reduce the total number of waste disposal sites by 80 per cent, eliminate open burning of waste at disposal sites and phase-out incinerators, phase out unlined landfills, and encourage residents of Newfoundland and Labrador to participate in waste diversion programs such as recycling and composting. Full implementation of the strategy is scheduled for 2020,” states the news release.
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