1. City of Yellowknife Public Works & Engineering
Municipal Solid Waste Management & Compost
City of Yellowknife
Public Works & Engineering

2. - Supervisor, Solid Waste Facility
Introduction
Carl Grabke
- Supervisor, Solid Waste Facility

3. Outline Five Year Overview Waste Diversion 2015 Highlights
Curbside Cart Pickup
Upcoming Events
2012 topo map

4. Materials
Incoming materials – increasing while landfilled materials are decreasing
Recycled materials – have been pretty consistent through-out the years
Reused materials – increasing mostly due to use of clean fill for cover material as well as asphalt and concrete used to construct new roads and processing areas, tire shred used for intermediate cover and road base.
Shipping of materials has also been steadily increasing, a lot due to old back logged materials and now not allowing back log to accumulate, shipping materials out as they come in.

5. Recycling Shipped in 2015

6. Waste Diversion
This is the total waste diversion rate encompassing all of our waste steams, keep in mind that the major part of our waste streams is construction material and commercial waste. In a later slide you can see the residential diversion rate for organics.

7. 2015 Highlights
Constructed Phase II of the centralized compost pad and graded for Phase III.
Large volume of asbestos materials from the Polaris Apartment building.
Lowered costs for the contractor snow dump.
Cleaned out and rebuilt steel area for new contractor
Phone book recycling
Utilized tire shred as intermediate cover and trash control in Cell A
Curbside compost cart roll out for Niven, School Draw and Old Town areas.
Centralized compost pad – we brought the pad to rough grade for the contractor to take over, they completed it.
Tires – partly funded by an ENR waste reduction and recycling initiative.
Concrete – to use as a new vehicle storage area
Snow dump – by maintaining it in house and building ramps to dump off of, we were able to lower costs to users
Brush – because we use these materials in our compost we needed to insure that they are at an appropriate quality.

8. Cart Program
Old Town, Niven and School Draw areas received 750 green carts for organics collection in October 2015
Range Lake neighbourhood received 720 green carts for organics collection in November of 2014.
Our biggest highlight for 2014 was the curbside collection program, this program rolled out Nov black garbage carts hit the curbs to all single family dwellings in Yellowknife, in addition 720 green carts also went out to the range lake neighborhood for organics collection.
The program has had some bumps in the road, with cart damages, non organic materials in green carts but mostly cart placement, so we have been continually working on public education through door knockers, social media, information sessions and reaching out to problematic neighborhoods.
Overall the program has been going very well, like in the range lake neighborhood -

9. Cart Program Diversion Rates
176 Tonnes of organics have been diverted from the landfill since curbside organics collection started in 2014.

10. Green Cart Roll Out Range Lake 2014 Old Town, Niven and School Draw
2015
Frame Lake, Hall Crescent, Northlands, Grace Lake
2016
Downtown
Legend 
November, 2014 – Range Lake (Monday Pickup)
2015 – Old Town/Niven/School Draw (Wednesday Pickup)
2016 – Frame Lake North/South/Grace Lake/Hall Crescent – Downtown (Tuesday Pickup)
2017

11. Expansion Compost Site
Access Road
2014
2017
2016
Pond
2015
2014 – 720 residents, range lake area completed
residents, old town, niven and school draw areas
residents, frame lake, northlands, Hall Crescent, grace lake
2017 – 750 residents, downtown, con

12. CELL B CONSTRUCTION 2016 summer construction
Construction costs of $3,500,000.00
Lifespan of 5 years
Capacity of
170,000 m³
including cover
material.

13. 2016 Upcoming events Large Item pick up Amnesty Week May 14 – 20, 2016
Summer Hours effective on May 2nd
Phase III of the compost pad will be constructed this summer
Cell B construction

14. Questions?
Contact Info