{"id":77658,"date":"2025-08-18T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77658\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:00:10","slug":"new-metal-shredder-to-compact-waste-and-save-space-at-dump-in-rankin-inlet-nunavut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77658\/","title":{"rendered":"New metal shredder to compact waste and save space at dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The materials filling the dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut,\u00a0will soon take up a fraction of the space at the community landfill thanks to a new metal shredding machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The hamlet purchased the shredder to manage a build-up of metal waste that the community&#8217;s senior administrative officer (SAO) said has been sitting in the landfill for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Literally everything that&#8217;s come into this community in the last 50 years in the way of metal is still here,&#8221; said hamlet SAO Darren Flynn. &#8220;Metal waste is a real problem for us here at the landfill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He expects that with the new shredder, metal waste will be reduced to about a quarter of its current size.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The community bought the shredder for about $870,000 and it arrived by ship in July. All eight employees with Rankin Inlet&#8217;s public works crew are being trained to operate the machine.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Flynn said the hamlet chose the unit,\u00a0because it&#8217;s the kind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/new-arviat-mayor-reflects-on-the-value-of-strong-community-services-during-a-pandemic-1.5708237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arviat bought in 2018<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We saw it in use in Arviat and we&#8217;re very impressed,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This summer, the crew will focus on shredding scraps. That includes aluminum siding and other odds and ends in the landfill. By next summer Flynn expects they&#8217;ll start shredding old vehicles too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A pile of metal waste outside.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/metal-waste-at-rankin-dump.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.048611111111111\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A pile of waste at the Rankin Inlet landfill. SAO Darren Flynn expects that with the new shredder, metal waste will be reduced to about a quarter of its current size. (Noel Kaludjak\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Scavengers fret not, Flynn said the hamlet will allow metal waste to sit for a period of time and get picked over before it goes into the shredder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In most communities, the dump is a resource that we jokingly call Canadian Tire,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In addition to saving space, Flynn said the shredded metal also reduces the risk of fires at the dump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said he expects the new machine to run from now until October and every summer for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This will be a part of our operation for years to come to make sure that we keep the landfill in good shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The materials filling the dump in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut,\u00a0will soon take up a fraction of the space at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-77658","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\/77658","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=77658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}