County eyeing turning trash into energy to reduce carbon footprint
Red Deer County wants to reduce its carbon footprint and is looking at its current method of waste diversion to get that done.
At county council this week, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the County and WastAway Services Canada, one of two companies who responded to a request for proposals sent out in March.
Right now, the County hauls between 22,000 and 25,000 tonnes of waste each year to the Coronation landfill, which is 207 kilometres away, according to Andrew Treu, Environmental Services Manager.
“If we can come up with something better than hauling that far and landfilling, we’d definitely like to do that. But we rely on the professionals and industry to come up with those ideas,” he says.