a major expansion at P.E.I. Energy Systems in Charlottetown<\/a>, which is expected to open in 2028.<\/p>\n\u201cWe would be able to increase the capacity of the landfill once that new facility opens,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n
The $180-million expansion project at the Riverside Drive site will create a waste-to-energy plant roughly twice the size of the current facility. Once up and running, it is expected to process up to 90 per cent of all burnable waste generated on Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n
Myers said the current facility can burn about 24,000 metric tonnes of waste annually, while the Island produces about 55,000 metric tonnes of burnable waste each year. The remainder is sent to landfill.<\/p>\n
With the expansion, capacity would increase to about 49,000 metric tonnes per year, meaning much less waste would be landfilled, helping extend the site\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n
To supply the expanded Charlottetown plant, IWMC plans to build a new transfer station at the East Prince facility. A tender for that project is currently out.<\/p>\n
Myers describes the transfer station as a large building where trucks will deliver waste that would otherwise go directly into the landfill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the waste arrives, it’ll go into the building, and the loads will be emptied on the receiving floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
At that stage, staff will carry out sorting to remove non-burnable materials, which are items that either cannot be incinerated or are too large for the system, and will still be sent to landfill. These could include materials such as vehicle windshields, glass or bulky items like sofas.<\/p>\n
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The transfer station will also change how waste moves across the Island, she added.<\/p>\n
Instead of having many smaller collection trucks driving all the way to Charlottetown, waste will be consolidated into much larger loads.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the functions of a transfer station is really a holding and loading facility, rather than having all the individual collection trucks go directly to P.E.I. Energy Systems. So that improves the transportation efficiency by transferring the waste in larger vehicles,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n
Myers said the financial impact of the new system, including the new transfer station and the cost of hauling waste to Charlottetown, has been built into IWMC\u2019s arrangement with P.E.I. Energy Systems and into the current rate structure.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of calculations went into making sure that IWMC protects our ratepayers, so that it’s not them paying for the extra cost to get waste to P.E.I. Energy Systems to produce the energy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur cost should remain about the same with consumer price index increases each year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-647456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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