Civic officials on the West Coast have been raising a stink for years about the ever increasing piles of garbage in many Lower Mainland municipalities and the dwindling number of places in which to put it all. Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc., part of the Cascades Group of Companies, took some of the pressure off by opening a new recycling processing facility in Burnaby, replacing the former plant in Surrey.
The recycling and waste processing facility in Burnaby is 80,000 square feet and is capable of handling as much as 200,000 metric tones of material a year. The state-of-the-art facility has an optical separation scanner which makes sorting much easier for the pickers who, with gloved hands, must separate the bottles, milk containers, paper, cardboard, cans, glass and plastics.
Sustainability is now an issue around the globe. Businesses are now much more aware of the major impact they have on the environment and how it affects their bottom line. Recognizing the need to implement waste management and recycling programs, waste audits are available to the consumer and can be arranged through companies such as Metro Waste Paper Recovery.
Printing services around New Westminster and other areas of the Lower Mainland, are also taking advantage of the company’s waste stream management programs. Those programs for Print services not only include paper recycling management, but hazardous materials such as toner cartridges and ink.
A 'Recovery Quiz' to help assess your waste management IQ is available on Metro’s homepage at metrowaste.com.
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