Other Facilities at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre

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The Edmonton Waste Management Centre (EWMC) also processes E-waste, construction and demolition waste, landfill gas and biosolids.

Landfill Gas Recovery Plant

This facility creates electricity from landfill gas, captured from the closed Clover Bar Landfill. It is owned by Capital Power.

When organic material breaks down inside a landfill, it creates a potent mixture of carbon dioxide and methane. A series of wells and pipes inside the Clover Bar Landfill collect this gas and deliver it to the plant.

The plant cleans the gas and uses it to power generators. This creates electricity that is supplied back to the power grid. When this is not possible, the plant flares off (burns) the gas. This produces far fewer greenhouse gasses than releasing landfill gas directly into the atmosphere.

landfill gas recovery photo

E-Waste Recycling Facility

At the E-Waste Recycling Facility, your old television, computer and other electronics are taken apart to remove recyclable materials, like various metals, glass and plastic. These materials are then sent to companies that further process them or turn them into new products.

E-waste contains chemicals and metals like lead, mercury and cadmium that are harmful to the planet if buried in a landfill. Recycling electronics not only keeps these materials out of landfills, it reduces the energy consumption, pollution and natural habitat loss associated with mining and refining new metals.

This facility is owned and operated by Quantum Lifecycle, a registered processor under Alberta’s Electronics Recycling Program. This program works with processors to ensure electronics are processed safely and responsibly, and do not end up in places where they harm people and the environment.

e-waste photo

Biosolids Lagoons

After you flush your toilet or drain your sink, your wastewater travels to a treatment plant. The solids are separated from liquids, then treated physically and chemically. The resulting product is called “biosolids” or sewage sludge. Biosolids are pumped from Goldbar Wastewater Treatment Plant to the EWMC, where they are stored in lagoons. Biosolids are managed by EPCOR.

When properly treated and managed, biosolids can be used as a fertilizer and to improve soil. EPCOR provides biosolids to farmers through its Nutri-gold program.

Construction and Demolition Recycling Facility

This facility accepts and sorts construction and demolition waste, with the goal of keeping materials like metals, wood and gypsum out of the landfill. The mixed material is sorted by magnets and by hand. The sorted materials are sent to other companies that turn them into new products. It is independently operated by GFL Environmental.

Contact Us

Telephone	In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311
Email	wastesupport@edmonton.ca