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Fueled by our Core Values of innovaion, excellence

and environmentally conscious, Tomlinson has been seeking

opportuniies to be more aligned with Ontario’s vision of a

circular economy. Armed with innovaive ideas, a desire to
provide even more environmentally friendly services, and

valuable knowledge gained throughout the years of Springhill’s

operaions, Tomlinson set out last fall to expand our capabiliies

and create a leading edge recovery centre.

The new facility is closer to the City with easier access for
trucks and will be able to process nearly three imes the volume

at 50+ tonnes an hour or 500 tonnes a day. With lessons learned,

new technologies, and perhaps most importantly, strong

demand from the industry to help support their sustainability
iniiaives and ceriicaion (such as LEED) the team anicipates

recovering or recycling a minimum of 80% of the materials that

will be delivered for processing, and hopes to take that number Celebrate

even higher as demand increases.
The new facility will support a number of aciviies,
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including source separaion of cardboard and plasic, reclaiming

of construcion materials like aggregates, rock and concrete,

which can be crushed and reused, recycling of metals and Join our Industrial Waste Kingston

wood, and conversion of mixed materials into biomass or fuel
sources. Leveraging new technologies in screening and uilizing division at 650 Fortune Crescent in

air pressure to sort material based on size and weight allow our Kingston on Friday April 22nd for Earth

dedicated team to process more material at a higher diversion
Day Festivities!
rate than ever before.
While many who will uilize this new service will be large-

scale builders and partners, our services are accessible to a Employees, clients, neighbours and regulatory

much broader audience, from city residents managing their oicials can enjoy a BBQ from 11am – 2pm (check out
our biodegradable plates, cups and recycling friendly
own renovaion or construcion project to general contractors
and more. Easy to access, a short hop from the 417 in the Carp food & beverage containers!)

Road business corridor, and with compeiive rates, this facility

is well posiioned to become a defacto alternaive, divering Free waste electronic drop of and data shred services.

construcion debris with opportuniies for reuse away from

landills with limited capacity. The facility will also be open on Learn from our team about ways we reduce
Saturdays to ensure easy access for the local community and
environmental impact in the community and promote
area residents.
recycling opions.
At the moment, more than 200,000 tonnes of construcion

debris and waste each year are sent directly to Otawa area Don’t miss it!
landills. With the addiion of this plant, Tomlinson has a unique

opportunity to have a major impact on these numbers and divert

more than 110,000 tonnes each year away from landills (which

have limited lifespans) and turn this volume into recoverable Our Carp Tomlinson Waste Recovery
materials that reduce the impact on our natural resources and
Centre will open for the first time
coninue to feed the local economy. This, in addiion to creaing

25 new jobs in the Carp area mean that our innovaion and the and begins accepting construction

value we place on environmental aciviies in all that we do will debris from local businesses and the
have a lasing impact on the local community and in the City as
general public.
a whole.

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