A trash plant in Woodbridge (the first of its kind in North America) is turning garbage into power
It’s a brilliantly simple idea: take something we have too much of and turn it into something that’s in desperately short supply. The Dongara Pellet Plant, at highways 407 and 27, is already chewing through 100,000 tonnes of York Region’s trash per year (it has the capacity to take on twice that) and pumping out nifty energy pellets that initial tests indicate burn cleaner than coal. Here’s how it works.—Karon Liu
STEP ONE
Residential solid waste is dumped into the first of a series of separation machines.
STEP TWO
Magnets, vibration tables, infrared lights and four workers take out such unwanted materials as metal, PVC plastic and glass.
STEP THREE
The waste is shredded into tiny bits and sent into a “fiberizerâ€â€”two wheels spinning at some 600 kilometres per hour that turn the garbage into cotton candy–like fluff.
STEP FOUR
The fluff is compressed and formed into thumb-sized pellets that burn at up to 12,000 BTUs.
STEP FIVE
The pellets are shipped to greenhouses and cement manufacturers in Ontario, Quebec and the States, where they are burned for energy.
Image credit: Ken Ogawa
Toronto Life Magazine
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