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August 2, 2000
TORONTOS
"TIRM" PROJECT
Toronto generates 1 million
tonnes of residential solid waste annually, of which 250,000 tonnes
(25 per cent) is diverted from disposal through recycling and composting.
Torontos Agencies, Boards and Commissions and Departments (ABCDs)
produce an additional 150,000 tonnes per year. As well, Toronto
receives 300,000 tonnes of waste for disposal from York and Durham
Regions, and 600,000 tonnes per year from private businesses, for
a total of 1.8 million tonnes a year.
Toronto currently disposes
its solid waste at the Keele Valley Landfill Site, located in the
City of Vaughan, and at Onyxs Arbor Hills Landfill in Michigan.
The city is using the Toronto
Integrated Solid Waste Resource Management "TIRM" Process
to acquire the necessary disposal capacity to meet residual solid
waste disposal needs, as well as to advance its diversion goals
through diversion technologies and new and emerging technologies.
Initiated by Metro Council
in 1997, highlights of TIRM include:
- diverting 50 per cent
of Torontos waste from disposal by 2006 - a mandate adopted by
the current City Council in 1998. The citys annual diversion
rate is 25 per cent.
- inviting GTA neighbours
(York, Durham and Peel Regions) to partner with Toronto
- ensuring the process
follows sound environmental planning principles
TIRMs five stages:
1. Planning document 4.
Due Diligence and contract negotiations
2. Request for Expressions
of Interest (REOI) 5. Contract Award
3. Request for Proposals
(RFP)
Public consultation took
place in setting the planning document, as well as in the creation
of the REOI and RFP evaluation criteria. Stakeholders are informed
through newsletters and a Web site at www.toronto.ca/involved/swm/swmmep.htm.
Respondents submitted
Expressions of Interest (EOI) in one or more of the three solid
waste management categories:
Category 1 Proven Diversion
(pending)
Category 2 Proven Disposal
Category 3 New, Emerging
and Innovative Technologies (pending
-- In 1999, Council approved a "secondary planning process"
for Category 3, a process using a different planning and time schedule.)
Proven
Disposal RFP Category 2
The five respondents
and respective facilities that underwent due diligence review include:
| Respondent |
Primary Site |
Contingency Sites |
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Essex Windsor Solid
Waste Authority
- proposed 20-year
contract with mutually agreeable renewal points at five
year increments
- Proposed tonnages:
100,000 tonnes per year for a period of 20 years or less.
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Essex Windsor Landfill
Site, Essex County, ON
Haul mode
Truck haul using as yet to be named sub-contractor, from
Toronto transfer stations
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Carleton Farms Landfill
Site, Wayne County, Michigan |
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Green Lane Environmental
- proposes a five-year
term with an option to extend for additional five-year terms,
up to 20 years
- Proposed tonnages:
100,000 to 125,000 tonnes per year
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Green Lane Landfill
Site, Elgin County, Ontario
Haul mode
Truck haul, using Green Lane Environmental Group, from Toronto
transfer stations
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Carleton Farms Landfill
Site, Wayne County, Michigan |
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Onyx Inc. (formerly
BFI)
- proposes a five-year
term with an option to extend for additional five-year terms,
up to 15 years
- Proposed tonnages:
450,000 tonnes per year
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Arbor Hills Landfill
Site, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Haul mode Truck haul, using
Verspeeten Cartage,
Ltd. (VCL) of Ingersoll, ON, to transport waste from Toronto
transfer stations
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American Ref-fuel,
Niagara Falls, NY (energy from waste facility, ash disposal
at Niagara Recycling landfill, Niagara Falls, N Y)
Carbon
Limestone Landfill Site, Mahoning County, Ohio
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Rail Cycle North
- proposal covers
a 20-year period.
Proposed tonnages:
different scenarios presented for a 20-year period
1.) put-or-pay
requires Toronto to provide a minimum tonnage volume
of 700,000 tonnes yearly for initial 10 years of contract,
600,000 tonnes thereafter
2.) no put-or-pay
requires Toronto to provide all of its municipal waste
for disposal or an initial quantity of 1.3 million tonnes
per year (no penalty as long as reduction is due to increased
diversion)
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Adams Mine Landfill
Site, Kirkland Lake, Ontario
Haul mode
Truck haul using fully-enclosed intermodal containers from
Toronto transfer stations to CNs MacMillan Yard in Vaughan
for loading onto flat-bed train cars (80 cars comprise a train).
One train daily from Vaughan to North Bay, where jurisdiction
for train transfers to Ontario Northland, proceeding to Adams
Mine Site.
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Woodland
Meadows-Van Buren Landfill Site, Wayne County, Michigan
Pine
Tree Acres Landfill Site, Macomb County, Michigan
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Republic Services
(Canada) Ltd.
- proposes options
to contract within range of five to 20 years (including
five-year increments)
- Proposed tonnages:
requested all or any part of Toronto's waste
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Carleton Farms Landfill
Site, Wayne County, Michigan
Haul mode
combination
Truck haul:
by Wilson Logistics, of Etobicoke, using closed top truck
trailers from transfer stations
Train: Wilson
Logistics to truck waste from Toronto transfer stations in
intermodal containers to CPR railhead (either to Milton for
smaller tonnages or to a reactivated Junction Triangle yard
for larger tonnages). CP to transport to Detroit intermodal
yard for truck haul to landfill site
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Brent Run Landfill
Site, Genesee County, Michigan |
Primary
Site
All primary sites are currently operating landfills, with the exception
of the Adams Mine Landfill Site, which is approved but not currently
in operation.
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The technical/environmental
due diligence review was conducted by Earth Tech Canada Inc. ("Earth
Tech"), in association with MacViro Consultants Inc. ("MacViro").
Torontos Finance Department carried out financial reviews relating
to respondents commercial and corporate status.
Criteria used to evaluate Disposal Proposals included:
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Human Health and
Safety and Natural Environment
(e.g. Greenhouse gas
emissions and traffic safety)
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35 possible points |
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Ontario and GTA
Social benefits
(e.g. Jobs created
and investment in goods)
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30 possible points |
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Financial
(e.g. Transportation
cost and tipping fee)
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35 possible points |
| Total: |
100 possible points |
RE: Proven Diversion
RFP Category 1
The city received six diversion
proposals:
| Proposals Proceeding |
Proposals not proceeding
(due to shortcomings re: commercial securities) |
Did not submit evaluation |
- Groupe Conporec,
Inc. & Services Matrec
- Rail Cycle North
Ltd.
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- SUBBOR
- HUWS Corporation
- Stone and Webster
Canada Ltd. & Canada Composting Inc.
- All Treat Farms
Ltd.
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- Agra Monenco Inc.
- Stinnes Ennerco
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Criteria used to evaluate
Diversion Proposals included:
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Net Greenhouse
gas emissions
(including collection,
processing and utilization)
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15 possible points |
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Traffic impact
(total kilometres
required to collect and deliver wastes to a processing facility)
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10 possible points |
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Jobs and Investment
(including the number
of direct jobs created and value of the direct investment
in goods and services to be purchased)
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15 possible points
(Toronto 10, Ontario
5)
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Waste diversion
rate-to-system cost ratio
(kilograms diverted
per dollar of overall system cost, including collection and
processing costs)
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60 possible points |
| Total: |
100 possible points |
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