Re: “Separate kitchen-scrap pit rejected,” Sept. 26.
I suggest folks Google: “Edmonton composting facility.” Built in 2000, it is still the largest in North America and very high-tech.
Did anybody in the Capital Regional District think to even look at the problems it solved? The Central Saanich plant seems to use 100-year-old technology.
I toured the Edmonton plant 10 years ago, and it is impressive. Yes, it is smelly in the raw-garbage delivery area, but the process becomes a closed system.
At the end of the tour, we stood outside over extractor outlet pits tens of feet across. No smell. The final odour control was three metres or so of cedar bark chips.
They sell everything they produce as a soil supplement for gardens. You can buy it at mainstream retail outlets. So folks, follow site links to odour control for organic waste recycling, sewage sludge and even for interest, their biofuels plant.
The powers that be in the CRD did not do due diligence.
Robert F. Johnson
Victoria
