Curbside Recycling in Niagara

A Pictorial Overview

• not-for-profit organization• employs > 50 people• employs developmentally

challenged Niagara adults• Materials Recovery Facility

( MRF ) • sorting lines• magnetic and eddy current

separation systems• high density bailing system• ecoglass recycling line

4935 Kent Avenue,Niagara Falls, ON

• contractor for Niagara’s 12 area municipalities

• 140,000 households • collection and

processing services for:> 200 industrial and

commercial customers

> 250 schools within the Niagara Region

4935 Kent Avenue,Niagara Falls, ON

• 1974: Niagara Training and Employment Agency recycling program - training and employment for developmentally challenged adults

• incorporated as the Niagara Training and Employment Agency (NTEC) in 1978.

• Became Niagara Recycling in late 1970s

1974-79: • curbside collection of newspaper

(residents requested via telephone)1979: • monthly curbside newspaper

collection began1985 (Pelham): Blue Box • glass bottles, jars and steel cans

soon followed • twice-monthly collection began• recycling collection became linked

to regular garbage collection days

1986:• multi-material curbside

recycling programs in Thorold, Port Colborne, Welland, Pelham and Niagara Falls

1988:• first curbside collection of

PET plastic in Ontario (pilot program in Pelham)

1989:• curbside recycling programs

implemented in all 12 municipalities

• Blue Box Program expanded to rural households in several municipalities

1990s:• aluminum cans and foil added

1994:• HDPE plastic bottles• boxboard• cardboard• Kraft paper• polystyrene • fine paper • junk mail

1995:• LDPE • PP • polycoat containers• plastic film

Late 1990s:

Alternating Blue Box / Gray Box collection (mixed recyclables / paper and film)

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