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The contracts, which range from $44.7 million to $48.5 million each, are to process waste that exceeds the capacity of Metro Vancouver’s waste-disposal facilities, including the Vancouver Landfill in Delta and an incinerator in Burnaby that burns garbage to produce electricity.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
Pinky Vargas, municipal relationship manager for Republic Services, said in an email that Republic Services shipped 1,159 double stacked railcars of waste from Surrey and Sumas to its Roosevelt facilities in 2022 — a little over 56,700 tonnes. The Roosevelt site includes a plant to produce power from gases from waste.
Over the past three years, the amount of excess waste has varied from a low of 35,340 tonnes to a high of 144,624 tonnes, according to Henderson.
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