December 1, 1999

WORKS COMMITTEE:

The Works Committee on December 1, 1999, had before it a report (November 15, 1999) from the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services responding to a request from the Committee to report on a proposal for a pilot wet/dry collection project in conjunction with the Mixed Waste Recycling and Organics Processing Facility; advising that such a facility is designed to process a mixed waste stream, a source-separated organics stream and a wet stream of a wet/dry system, and that once the mixed waste processing test is near completion, a further report will be submitted to the Committee in early 2001 on the results of this first phase and on specific plans for the three-stream and wet/dry pilots; and recommending that this report be received for information.

The Committee:

(1) deferred consideration of the aforementioned report and following motion until its next meeting, scheduled to be held on January 12, 2000:

Moved by Councillor Layton:

"That the source-separated organics pilot project proceed first"; and

(2) requested the Commissioner of Works and Emergency Services to submit a report to such meeting on:

(i) a breakdown of the estimated costs for the project; and

(ii) the volume of mixed waste and source-separated organic tonnage that can be handled by the pilot facility and by the expanded facility.

City Clerk

Trudy Perrin/es.19

c: Councillor Jack Layton

General Manager, Solid Waste Management Services