Recycled glass to be processed in Brampton
Monday, Apr 07 2008, 02:00
Nearly all of greater Toronto's recycled glass will be processed in a new plant in Brampton starting this summer.
The new plant to be built by Montreal-based Unical Inc. means that Toronto municipalities will no longer be shipping their recycled glass to plants as far away as Syracuse, N.Y., and Montreal.
That means the municipalities - who must pay processors to take the glass off their hands - will pay much lower fees.
Toronto for example currently pays about $48.75 a ton to have its glass recycled; the new contract with uncial will reduce that fee to about $11.
Unical will spend $10 million on the new plant. Stewardship Ontario - an agency funded by industries that produce waste - is also providing a $1.75 million grant to Unical to buy processing equipment.
The five municipalities participating are Toronto, Hamilton, Peel, York and Durham. Collectively, they estimate they'll save about $10 million over the next seven years.
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