Material Separation

March 20, 2009

EPS Densification

Engineering to develop a mobile expanded polystyrene densification program that can go from municipality-to-municipality to process EPS and send to market. Documents Final Report: Densification and Recycling of Post-Consumer Polystyrene Packaging Blog Post July 13, 2018: CIF Pilot Project Confirms Expanded Polystyrene Recycling Possible but Challenging Related Projects Project #731 Project #1035 Categories End Markets | Innovation | Material Separation |...

End Markets | Innovation | Material Separation |

December 9, 2013

Best Practices in EPS Management

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) has remained a challenge to manage in the blue box for over 30 yrs. The CIF has funded a number of projects to test centralized and decentralized processing options. This project will build on these past efforts to accurately compare the collection and processing costs and pros/cons...

Centre of Excellence | End Markets | Material Separation |

October 7, 2015

Recyclable Material Cost Allocation Study

A three-phase study to develop a standardized methodology for evaluating the impact(s) of adding and/or removing materials to/from individual Blue Box programs. Phase 1 will result in the development of a set of allocation principles through broad public input. Phase 2 will result in a model based on the allocation...

Centre of Excellence | Material Separation | Models |

July 14, 2017

Polystyrene Densifier Pilot

Toronto, like many municipalities, is encountering problems with the marketing of its curbside collected EPS. This pilot explored use of new technology to produce a marketable material. The CIF contributed $35,000 to this pilot. Documents Final Report: Toronto's Expanded Polystyrene Densification and Marketing Pilot Blog Post July 13, 2018: CIF Pilot Project Confirms Expanded...

Best Practices | Material Separation | MRF | Operations |

August 12, 2019

Mobile EPS Processing Pilot

A mobile EPS densifier pilot to investigate the potential to minimize some issues that have kept some municipalities from adding this material to their program. The proposed pilot involves a portable unit that will travel from depot to depot in the SW Ontario corridor, manual sortation of collected EPS to...

Best Practices | Material Separation |

August 12, 2019

Hefty Energybag Flexible Plastics Pilot

The City of London undertook a two-year pilot that will seek to improve the diversion of flexible film and other difficult to recycle plastics using the Hefty® EnergyBag® program promoted by Dow Chemical Company. The CIF contributed up to $97,000 or 13% of project costs to evaluate collection and processing...

Best Practices | Collection | Material Separation |

August 30, 2019

Curbside Debagging of Blue Bags Pilot

A pilot study at the County of Dufferin to evaluate the cost and amount of effort required to debag bagged curbside recyclables. The results of the study will help determine whether or not bagged recyclables should be debagged at the curb or at the MRF. Included in the project is...

Best Practices | Collection | Material Separation |

July 27, 2017

Northumberland County Curbside Glass Collection Pilot

This project involves testing the cost and effectiveness of source separating Blue Box glass at the curb to eliminate the negative impacts on MRF processing and to evaluate the implications on collection costs and marketing revenue. The CIF contributed up to $44,265 or 50% of costs. Documents Final Report: Segregated Curbside Glass...

Best Practices | Material Separation |