0.3% “Waste”!

0.3%. 0.3%!! Can you believe it?!

Oh, you need some context? Fair enough. We’ve talked about debris in soil before on LinkedIn. As you may appreciate, we’re a soil regeneration facility, and don’t like to receive construction and demolition waste. When we do, it takes time and effort to pick and sort the waste for recycling and disposal. Our clean aggregate outputs often become contaminated with small pieces of debris (like brick, asphalt, wood, or concrete) – making them less valuable for construction. And, it costs money to transport the materials to appropriate recycling and disposal facilities (though we’d like to thank the Regional District of Nanaimo, the Milner Group Ventures, Royal Paving, and Coastal Trucking for their help with this). Look at this photo – it took a lot of work to separate our oversize rock from this debris-laden project.

But in spite this, over the last quarter, guess how much legit garbage our entire facility produced? Yep! Only 0.3% of all inputs! That means we diverted 99.7% of the excess soil, sediment, and slurry we received away from the landfills where it would otherwise have been sent. So come to think of it, I think we should be shouting “99.7%! 99.7%!!!”, shouldn’t we?

Well done, GRT. grtenv.com