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Neil Burkard of the City of Edmonton at the start of a tour of Edmonton's amazing waste management facility
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The colour of waste in Edmonton: 20% recycled, 40% composted, 30% soon to become biofuel, 10% landfill by 2013
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On the tipping floor of Edmonton's Waste Management facility the sorting begins here
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Edmonton's garbage sorting starts on the tipping floor
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A grappler in Edmonton's Integrated Processing and Transfer Facility (IPTF) for waste
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A larger grappler in the garbage sorting facility in Edmonton
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Edmonton's Integrated Processing and Transfer Facility (IPTF) for waste
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On this side of the garbage sorting facility refuse that can't be composeted or recycled comes back to the tipping floor for transfer to long-haul trucks to the landfill
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The Edmonton Recycling Plant is a marvel of machinery and human labour
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Edmonton Recycling Plant receiving docks full to the brim with blue bag materials
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Material is mechanically sorted and receives a bit of human touch too in the Edmonton Recycling Plant
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Workers do some of the final sorting in the Edmonton Recycling Plant
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On the ball - the conveyors keep moving and workers must stay vigilent in the Edmonton Recycling Plant
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Workers in the Edmonton Recycling Plant
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Posters in the Edmonton Recycling Plant remind that box boards are used to make shingles
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And newspapers begat newspapers reminds a poster at Edmonton Recycling Plant
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Where rebar comes from - a poster at Edmonton Recycling Plant
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Bluebags become picnic tables - poster at the Edmonton Recycling Plant
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The Edmonton Recycling Plant is part of one of the most integrated waste management facilities you will find anywhere
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Compost sitting outside steaming outside of the giant composter at the Edmonton Waste Management Facility
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Compost from the giant composter at Edmonton's waste management facility sits outside until it's ready to be used
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The Electronics Recycling Centre at Edmonton's waste management centre serves all of western Canada
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Workers inside the electronics recycling centre at Edmonton's waste management centre serves all of western Canada
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Workers in the electronics recycling centre at Edmonton's waste management centre
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Neil Burkard provides a tour of Edmonton's electrinics recycling centre at the Edmonton waste management facility
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Grey's recycling plant at Edmonton waste management facility
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A cat on a mountain of shingles at the Edmonton waste management facility
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Garbage that can't be recycled or composted being shredded for use in the soon to be opened biofuels plant
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Shredding garbage for use in a future biofuels plant at the Edmonton waste management facility
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Shredded garbage for use in the future biofuels operation at Edmonton's waste management facility
