The document summarizes what happens to various materials disposed of at the Eastview Landfill and recycling facility in Brandon, Manitoba. Black bin garbage is buried in cells at the landfill, while blue bin recyclables are sorted at the on-site Materials Recovery Facility. Tires, electronics, appliances, glass, wood, organics, concrete, and bulk items are also recycled or reused. The landfill aims to maximize diversion and find beneficial end uses for materials.

1. *
When your waste hits the bin where does it
go?

2. *
Everything you put into your black lidded bin is dumped into the tipping
face at the landfill. Once the cell is filled with garbage, the cell will be
capped and sealed off and a new cell will be engineered to receive
garbage. In the past, cells would fill up with garbage in 5-6 years,
currently with various regulations and programs to divert waste from the
landfill the average cell can last up to 8-10 years.

3. *
Everything you put in to your blue lidded bin is dropped off to the
Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) building on site at the landfill. A
company is contracted by the City of Brandon to run the MRF
building. The MRF building is divided into two halves the “wet”
side and the “dry” side. The dry side is for commercial recycling
(milk jugs, plastic containers, cardboard) this is baled and shipped
off to other plants for further processing. The “wet” materials
are from your residential blue bins. These recyclables are roughly
sorted into 50 yard boxes before being shipped off to be refined at
a contractor plant in Winnipeg.

4. *
Each year a recycle audit is performed to see how many non
recyclables enter the facility. The most recent results of the
recycle audit were 28-30% of the items from residential blue bins
were classified as a non-recyclable (bags of garbage, greasy pizza
box, poorly rinsed out cans).

5. *
When you take old tires to the landfill they are recycled by a
company contracted by the Province of Manitoba. This company hauls
the tires back to their plant to recycle the old tires into (car ramps,
rubber mats, rubber curb stops, rubber fence posts). Tire
Stewardship pays the City of Brandon for all tires taken from our
facility to be recycled. The money is reinvested back into recycling
programs for the City to offer.

6. *
The landfill has an area where you can drop off your old electronics
they are then shipped to a recycling plant in Edmonton, AB for proper
recycling and the finished product is sold as a commodity for new
products. The e-waste program is for residential electronics only.

7. *
All Freon devices are degassed at the landfill, where the Freon is sent to
a recycling facility. The degassed appliances are then taken to a scrap
metal facility. This is for residents of Brandon only not commercial.

8. *
All of your glass jars, and old toilets can be taken to the
landfill where they will crush the materials and use them as
French drains when creating a cell at the landfill. A French
drain is a type of drain used in a landfill to filter and collect
the leachate (garbage soup).

9. *
The City of Brandon contracts out a wood chipper where all the
Christmas Trees and other untreated wood products are wood chipped
into mulch. This product is used within the City’s Parks Department for
landscaping projects and is sold to landscaping companies.

10. *
The City’s collects the “browns” for composting from a local stockyard
and agriculture events at the Keystone Center. The “greens” is from the
Curbside Organic Collection Compost Pilot Program, yard waste depots
and from the City’s greenhouse parks department. The City maintains
the compost windrows using an industrial turner to aerate the compost
allowing an increase in microbial activity.

11. *
Old concrete is separated out from the tipping face of the landfill as
efforts are being made to find an end use for this product. Currently
it is being used as a stability agent in the making of the roads at the
landfill.

12. *
Bulk items can be dropped off for proper recycling

13. *
The landfill has an eco-center for used oil filters and containers
that are shipped and processed into recycled oil.

14. *For more information
about Eastview Landfill
*Contact 729-2281