FAQ

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Residential and commercial customers can bring the following material to one of two locations in HRM. See tipping fee’s here.

Carpet or inert material not considered construction or building materials

• Drywall, Ceiling tile, Vinyl, Plastic, Glass, Insulation, Styro, Tar, gravel roofing, Painted wood
• Clean Asphalt Shingles
• Clean wood, Brush, leaves, grass clippings
• Asphalt/Brick/Concrete
• Concrete With Rebar
• Mesh or Rebar

This is how much of the product leaves Halifax C&D and completes the recycle cycle

Wood waste
Sorted acceptable wood waste is chipped to 3 inch minus and sent to Brooklyn Power Corporation to produce steam for the Bowater Pulp Mill. This is the largest biomass power producer in Nova Scotia.

Asphalt shingles
Two products come from recycled asphalt shingles. The asphalt sand is used to make hot mix Asphalt Pavement used by Ocean Contractors . This innovative recycled product was used on over 90% of the road system in Dartmouth Crossing
 
Asphalt Paper
Asphalt shingle flake is produced from asphalt paper and is used by LaFarge Cement to replace coal. The asphalt shingle flake burns more cleanly than coal, without the harmful emissions.
 
Gyprock
Clean gyprock is sorted, de-papered and processed to desired specifications, which gets trucked to in McAdam New Brunswick to make new wallboard at the Certainteed Gyproc Plant

Glass
Materials are separated and glass is processed to make septic sand, which has been approved by the Nova Scotia Department of the Environment.
 
Metal
Metal is sorted from materials and recycled locally.
 
Mixed C&D materials
Mixed debris is processed to a mulch to create a manufactured cover for landfills and is used at Otter Lake, where it is most useful due to lack of soil on-site.
 
In 2009 Halifax C&D was awarded a contract to process all of Nova Scotia’s used tires into a valuable shredded tire product known as Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA).
To conserve landfill space and reduce environmental hazards every year, more than 1.2 million worn out tires are collected from tire retailers across Nova Scotia and processed by Halifax C&D.