Convertus has four facilities across Canada where it handles more than 300,000 tonnes of organic waste each year. The company wants to increase capacity from about 20,000 metric tonnes at the Nanaimo facility, for which it recently secured a long-term contract with the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN). The plan is to have the site handle more than 40,000 tonnes of food, leaf and yard, co-mingled and fish waste. The upgrade will include four in-vessel composting tunnels, air humidification and biofilter capacity for odour abatement.
“We’re in the process of renovating that facility,” said Kawakami, business development manager for Convertus. “Some of this is absolutely state of the art.” Convertus in the meantime is already looking for additional volumes to take in from the region. Please see the following links for more details:
https://convertusgroup.com/nanaimo-facility-could-take-some-of-comox-strathconas-compost/
https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/nanaimo-facility-could-take-some-of-comox-strathconas-compost/