3.          IC&I WASTE DIVERSION STRATEGY "DIVERSION 2015" - FINAL REPORT

 

STRATÉGIE VISANT LA RÉORIENTATION DES DÉCHETS ICI « RÉORIENTATION 2015 » – RAPPORT FINAL

 

 

Committee recommendations

 

That Council:

 

1.                  Receive the Consultation Report, dated January 15, 2009, on the Draft Industrial, Commercial Institutional (IC&I) 2015 Waste Diversion Strategy; and

 

2.                  Approve Diversion 2015, the IC&I Waste 3R Strategy as set out in Document 2.

 

3.                  Approve Diversion 2015 IC&I Waste Diversion Implementation Plan – Overview (2009-2015) as set out in Document 3

 

4.         Approve Diversion 2015 IC&I Waste Diversion 2009-2010 Work Plan, as set out in Document 4.

 

RecommandationS DU Comité

 

Que le Conseil :

 

1.                  reçoive le rapport de consultation, daté du 15 janvier 2009, sur la stratégie provisoire visant la réorientation des déchets industriels, commerciaux et institutionnels (ICI) 2015;

 

2.                  approuve la stratégie des 3R pour les déchets ICI, Réorientation 2015, formulée dans le document 2;

 

3.                  approuve le plan de mise en œuvre de la réorientation des déchets ICI Réorientation 2015 – aperçu (2009-2015), formulé dans le document 3;

 

4.         approuve le plan de travail 2009-2010 pour la réorientation des déchets ICI Réorientation 2015, formulé dans le document 4.

 

 

Documentation

 

1.                  Deputy City Manager’s report, Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability dated 20 March 2009 (ACS2009-ICS-SWS-0004).

 

2.         Extract of Draft Minute, 14 April 2009, follows the French version of the report.


Report to/Rapport au :

 

Planning and Environment Committee

Comité de l'urbanisme et de l'environnement

 

and Council / et au Conseil

 

20 March 2009 / le 20 mars 2009

 

Submitted by/Soumis par : Nancy Schepers,

Deputy City Manager/Directrice municipale adjointe,

Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability/

Services d’infrastructure et Viabilité des collectivités 

 

Contact Person/Personne ressource : Dixon Weir, General Manager / Directeur général,

Environmental Services / Services environnementaux

(613) 580-2424 x22609, Dixon.Weir@ottawa.ca

 

City Wide/à l'échelle de la Ville

Ref N°: ACS2009-ICS-SWS-0004

 

 

SUBJECT:

IC&I WASTE DIVERSION STRATEGY "DIVERSION 2015" - FINAL REPORT

 

 

OBJET :

STRATÉGIE VISANT LA RÉORIENTATION DES DÉCHETS ICI « RÉORIENTATION 2015 » – RAPPORT FINAL

 

 

REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS

 

That Planning and Environment Committee recommend that Council:

 

1.         Receive the Consultation Report, dated January 15, 2009, on the Draft Industrial, Commercial Institutional (IC&I) 2015 Waste Diversion Strategy; and

 

2.         Approve Diversion 2015, the IC&I Waste 3R Strategy as set out in Document 2.

 

3.         Approve Diversion 2015 IC&I Waste Diversion Implementation Plan – Overview (2009-2015) as set out in Document 3

 

4.                  Approve Diversion 2015 IC&I Waste Diversion 2009-2010 Work Plan, as set out in Document 4.

 


RECOMMANDATIONS DU RAPPORT

 

Que le Comité de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement recommande au Conseil :

 

1.                  de recevoir le rapport de consultation, daté du 15 janvier 2009, sur la stratégie provisoire visant la réorientation des déchets industriels, commerciaux et institutionnels (ICI) 2015;

 

2.         d’approuver la stratégie des 3R pour les déchets ICI, Réorientation 2015, formulée dans le document 2;

 

3.         d’approuver le plan de mise en œuvre de la réorientation des déchets ICI Réorientation 2015 – aperçu (2009-2015), formulé dans le document 3;

 

4.                  d’approuver le plan de travail 2009-2010 pour la réorientation des déchets ICI Réorientation 2015, formulé dans le document 4.

 

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

Diversion 2015 is a broad policy document that sets out goals, objectives and targets for the management of industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) waste in the city.  A Draft Strategy was tabled at Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) in July 2008 and Council in August 2008. 

 

Further public consultation on the Draft Strategy followed in October 2008, including a Stakeholder Roundtable, an IC&I Waste Management Forum, and four separate Open Houses geographically distributed at east, west, central and south locations.  Overall, feedback was supportive and the final revisions to Diversion 2015 reflect the input received including a desire for clarification of the City’s position with respect to the province, additional details on how the Strategy will be implemented, and the desire for both educational material and a recognition program for IC&I leaders.

 

Diversion 2015 targets sustained measurable reductions in the IC&I waste generated in the City of Ottawa, maximizing the amount of waste diverted from landfill, and ultimately deferring the need for and minimizing the scale of landfill expansions within the City of Ottawa. However, the Strategy recognizes that the City has no legislative authority to direct IC&I waste; thus the emphasis is on ‘Leading by Example’, ‘Promoting/ Enabling’ and then Mandating (within the authority to mandate).

 

The Implementation Plan (Document 3) identifies more specific actions to be undertaken including the improvement of data collection, Leading by Example with initiatives to improve diversion at City facilities and pilots at parks, transit stations and special events; Promoting, Enabling and Mandating with efforts to advocate for legislative change, meet with stakeholders regularly, develop a recognition program for leaders and institute differential tipping fees at the City’s landfill.

 

Staff is estimating to spend a total of $1 million over 3 years for implementation of Diversion 2015.  Funds are available in the Solid Waste capital project internal order #900351 Management Alternatives, which currently has an uncommitted balance of $4.5M, to be spent on Solid Waste initiatives.

 

RÉSUMÉ

 

Réorientation 2015 est un document directif large qui établit des buts, objectifs et cibles pour la gestion des déchets industriels, commerciaux et institutionnels (ICI) dans la Ville. Une stratégie provisoire a été présentée au Comité de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement (CUE) en juillet 2008 et au Conseil, en août 2008.

 

Une consultation publique sur la stratégie provisoire a suivi en octobre 2008, incluant une table ronde des intervenants, un forum sur la gestion des déchets ICI et quatre séances portes ouvertes distinctes réparties à des endroits situés dans l’est, dans l’ouest, dans le centre et dans le sud. Dans l’ensemble, la rétroaction est favorable et les dernières révisions apportées à Réorientation 2015 tiendront compte des commentaires reçus. Les points nécessitant des éclaircissements qui sont ressortis lors des séances de consultation comprennent la position de la Ville quant au rôle de la province dans la question de la réorientation des déchets ICI, la présentation de détails supplémentaires sur la mise en œuvre de la stratégie et le désir d’offrir du matériel pédagogique et un programme de reconnaissance aux dirigeants du secteur ICI.

 

Réorientation 2015 cible des réductions mesurables et soutenues de la production de déchets ICI dans la Ville d’Ottawa, en optimisant la quantité de déchets détournés des décharges et en reportant, en bout de ligne, la nécessité d’agrandir les décharges dans la Ville d’Ottawa et d’en réduire l’ampleur. Toutefois, on reconnaît, dans la stratégie, que la Ville n’a pas le pouvoir législatif requis pour orienter la gestion des déchets ICI et qu’elle insiste donc pour « donner l’exemple », « promouvoir/faciliter », avant d’imposer (en vertu du pouvoir d’imposer).

 

Le plan de mise en œuvre (document 3) détermine des mesures plus précises à prendre, notamment améliorer la collecte des données, donner l’exemple au moyen d’initiatives visant à accroître la réorientation des déchets dans les installations de la Ville et à réaliser des projets pilotes dans les parcs, les stations de transport en commun et pendant des événements spéciaux; promouvoir, faciliter et imposer la réorientation en tâchant de préconiser des changements législatifs, de rencontrer régulièrement les intervenants, d’élaborer un programme de reconnaissance des dirigeants et d’instaurer une redevance différentielle dans les décharges de la Ville.

 

Le personnel estime dépenser au total 1 million de dollars sur trois ans pour la mise en œuvre de Réorientation 2015. Les fonds sont disponibles à même la commande interne no 900351 des projets d’immobilisations visant des déchets solides, solutions de rechange en matière de gestion, qui compte actuellement un solde non engagé de 4,5 millions de dollars, à consacrer à des initiatives de gestion des déchets solides.

 

 


BACKGROUND

 

During the summer of 2006, Council reassessed its position regarding the management of Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (IC&I) waste, and directed that staff undertake a thorough examination of the suite of technologies for managing both residential and ICI waste streams.

 

In March 2007, Council approved the scope of work for an IC&I 3R Waste Diversion Strategy including a broad consultation program.  When the Draft Strategy was tabled in July 2008, Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) and Council endorsed the following:

1.      Receive the Draft IC&I Waste Diversion Strategy, “Diversion 2015” for public review

2.      Approve the Public Consultation Program (including an open house in the centre of the City and use of conditions requiring the diversion of construction and demolition waste in building permits, demolition permits, plans of subdivision, site plans and other permits related to the building approval process.)

3.      Request the Federation of Canadian Municipalities engage the federal government in discussions over reducing packaging material and converting packaging material into recyclable material, in order to reduce the waste stream with Ottawa Members of Parliament copied on the request

4.      Request the Association of Municipalities of Ontario engage the Government of Ontario in discussions to increase waste diversion in the IC&I sector to reach 60%, in order to reduce the waste stream; and that Ottawa area MPPs be copied on the request.

 

All of the above have been done as directed by Council.

 

  However discussions with the General Manager, Planning and Growth Management Branch, city planners and Legal Services indicate that under the Planning Act and Site Plan Approval process, it is possible to have site plan approval conditional upon waste diversion plans for demolition and construction debris.  Meetings are in progress to formalize and integrate this requirement with current Planning and Growth Management branch efforts to re-visit and establish standard site plan conditions.  Further to #2, Building Code Services advises that in accordance with the Ontario Building Code Act, submission of a waste diversion plan cannot be a pre-condition of the City issuing a building permit.

 

With respect to engaging the provincial government on this issue, a request was sent from the Clerk’s office to FCM re: packaging and a request made to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario per Council’s request.  In November 2008, the Ontario Minister of the Environment launched a discussion paper regarding the Waste Diversion Act and requested feedback from municipalities by April 2009.  The Association of Municipalities of Ontario in conjunction with the Municipal Waste Association prepared a formal response and the City of Ottawa has formally supported their position.

 

The Diversion 2015 Strategy hasbeen improved through the addition of concrete activities described as part of an Implementation Plan that provides more detail and is consistent with the goals of the Strategy.

 

 

DISCUSSION

 

Council directed staff to conduct a further and final round of consultations on the Draft Diversion 2015 Strategy as presented to PEC on July 8, 2008.  Consultations were subsequently held with a Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting and a Waste Forum held with public and private sector representatives, on October 21, 2008.  Four Open Houses were also held October 22 at the Kanata Recreation Complex, October 23 at City Hall (110 Laurier Avenue West), October 23 at Jim Durrell Centre, and October 29 at Orleans Client Centre. For consultation details and results, see Document 1 – Consultation on Diversion 2015, January 15, 2009.

 

The IC&I Waste Diversion Strategy – Diversion 2015

 

The City’s 2007-2010 Strategic Plan[1] sets the following solid waste objective:

 

Reduce residential dependence on landfill/dumps by 30 per cent within 1,000 days:

Complete the Integrated Waste Management Plan with the ICI 3Rs Strategy for the management of industrial, commercial and institutional waste, a Residual Waste Management Plan, and a Landfill Management Plan.

 

Diversion 2015 is the IC&I 3R Strategy; if approved and implemented, it will result in significant progress towards achievement of the above strategic objective.

 

Diversion 2015 has the following Goals and Objectives.

 

Goals

 

The primary goals in development of this strategy are:

·        To effect sustained measurable reductions in the gross per capita quantity of waste generated in the City of Ottawa;

·        To maximize the amount of waste diverted from landfill, and to defer the need for and minimize the scale of landfill expansions in the City of Ottawa; and

·        To achieve 60% diversion, a target originally established by the Province, of the IC&I waste stream from disposal by 2015.

 

Objectives

 

Our overall objectives can be summarized under the following major categories:

 

  1. To lead by example: - Through a comprehensive in-house waste management plan and the championing of solid waste issues at the municipal, provincial, and national level.

  2. To inform: - Through education, training, and technical assistance programs.

 

  1. To influence: - Through the use of financial controls and public recognition programs.

 

  1. To partner and enable:  - With the waste service sector to provide for the range of services needed to meet the waste processing requirements of the community, including working to identify and assist in development of markets for materials.

 

  1. To direct and control: - Through the use of appropriate financial and regulatory tools to ensure that Ottawa businesses and institutions are able to operate on a level playing field with respect to the management of solid waste. 

 

  1. To increase diversion: - Through focus on waste streams that represent significant volumes of waste, or materials for which diversion programs can be readily and affordably established, specifically: paper products; blue box materials; organics; asphalt shingles; gypsum board; and clean wood.

 

Diversion 2015 sets a framework through which the City takes control of the portions of the system which are within its jurisdiction and relies on the Provincial Government and the private sector to put in place systems and structures to deal the IC&I waste stream.  The Strategy promotes a goal of 60% diversion from disposal, in line with residential targets and Provincial goals.  It identifies the significant gaps in data availability and difficulties in collecting accurate benchmark IC&I data – given the lack of control the City has over this portion of the waste.  A key activity in the first phase of the strategy is to fill the data gaps to get a more accurate picture based on sector audits, MOE data, and comparative analysis from other municipalities.  Partners in this endeavour will be the Provincial Government, the Ontario Waste Management Association and private sector operators who are already taking steps to fill the data gaps.

 

The focus of the Strategy is to regulate what is within the City’s control through financial and regulatory initiatives, to facilitate development of markets for materials, to educate and support, particularly small businesses, and to lobby other levels of government and the industry as a whole to close the gaps in IC&I waste management and improve overall diversion.

 

Implementation Plan

 

Based on the results of the final consultation and the Goals and Objectives of the Diversion 2015 Strategy, an Implementation Plan was developed, including a 2009-10 Work Plan.  This Plan was broadly discussed with the Environmental Advisory Committee and is attached as Document 3.  The immediate emphasis is on:

 

The final Diversion 2015 Strategy, Document 2, and the Implementation Plan, Document 3, reflect the input received during the final consultation process.

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS

 

Clearly the IC&I sector has a major impact on the City’s ability to direct material in general and plan for and manage future disposal capacity.  The amount of growth expected in Ottawa over the next 20 years will put significant pressure on the City’s waste management resources, especially the landfill.  There are four landfills serving City of Ottawa customers and clients, two publicly owned and two privately owned.  Diversion 2015 is an effort to divert more and reduce the reliance on landfills for disposal.  The approach outlined in the IC&I waste diversion strategy is to lead by example, inform, influence and eventually mandate changes, if required, in order to extend the life of the City’s landfill thereby positively impacting the overall environment in the City of Ottawa.

 

 

RURAL IMPLICATIONS

 

This Diversion 2015 Strategy would apply equally to urban, suburban and rural areas.

 

 

CONSULTATION

 

This strategy has been developed and refined with broad consultation with many stakeholders.  Council directed staff to conduct a further and final round of consultations on the Draft Diversion 2015 Strategy as presented to PEC on July 8, 2008.  Consultations were subsequently held with the Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meeting and a Waste Forum held with public and private sector representatives, on October 21, 2008.  Four Open Houses were also held October 22 at the Kanata Recreation Complex, October 23 at City Hall (110 Laurier Avenue West), October 23 at Jim Durrell Centre, and October 29 at Orleans Client Centre. See Document 1 for details.

 

 

LEGAL/RISK MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS:

 

There are no legal impediments to implementing any of the recommendations in this report.

 

 

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

 

The Diversion 2015 Strategy is anticipated to cost approximately $1 million over 3 years. Funds are available in the Solid Waste capital project internal order #900351 Management Alternatives, which currently has an uncommitted balance of $4.5M, to be spent on Solid Waste initiatives.

 

 

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

Document 1 – Consultation Report on Diversion 2015 January 15, 2009

http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/public_consult/ici/index_en.html

Document 2 – Diversion 2015, City of Ottawa IC&I Waste Diversion Strategy

Document 3 – Diversion 2015 Implementation Plan, Overview,

Document 4 – Diversion 2015 2009-2010 Work Plan

 

 

DISPOSITION

 

Environment Services, within Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability, to implement the approved IC&I Waste Diversion Strategy and Implementation Plan.

 



[1] http://www.ottawa.ca/city_hall/corporate_plan/plan/strategic_plan_en.pdf