Tomlinson Times - Spring 2016

SpRINg 2016

INTERNAL NEWSLETTER OF TOMLINSON gROup OF cOMpANIES

New CoNstruCtioN reCyCliNg

& reCovery CeNtre

eco-Friendly option for ottawa residents, Builders and Contractors

Tomlinson’s new state-of-the-art recycling and recovery facility, situated just minutes away from Kanata, is

shaping up to be a signiicant environmentally friendly resource for the local construction industry and residents

tackling their own renovation or construction projects. The Tomlinson Construction Recycling & Recovery Centre,

opening in late April 2016, will be the most technologically advanced facility of its kind in North America.

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For many years, Tomlinson’s Springhill facility has been hen new buildings or properies are constructed,

the go-to depot for dropping of this kind of material, and or when older properies are renovated or
the facility currently processes about 50,000 tonnes a year demolished, debris and remnant materials are an

(or 15 - 20 tonnes an hour), with 60 - 70 percent of this unavoidable part of the process. In a construcion market that

material being turned into a recoverable or renewed product. coninues to grow ever more focused on sustainability and

Materials accepted range from let over scraps from new environmentally conscious concepts like LEED ceriicaion

construcion to debris created through renovaions and full and BOMA BEST, having a facility where residents, contractors

scale demoliions. This “waste” material is then processed to and builders can bring materials to be recycled or reclaimed

separate out the wood, metals, rock, plasics and paper to be instead of being taken to a landill can have a signiicant

recycled or reused instead of being buried in a landill.
impact on a project’s environmental impact and extend the

lifespan of valuable landill assets.
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