Celebrating our Roots and Digging into our Future…
Compost!

20th Annual National Compost Conference
September 22-24, 2010
Crowne Plaza Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario

Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Online Registration


Course Option: Tuesday Sept. 21st and Wednesday Sept. 22nd
Through a generous donation of time on behalf of our Board Chair, we will still be able to offer a 2-day version of the Compost Facility Operator Course at the start of our conference this year! It will be held at CH2M Hill's Ottawa offices, 330- 1101 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa.

For those participants who are registered for our conference, or who plan to, the extra fee for the course will be $249 plus HST. To participate only in the course itself, without the conference, the fee will be $400 plus HST.

For more information and for a registration form, please contact the Council at 1-877-471-GROW or at info@compost.org.
Tuesday tours info:
To take advantage of tours of some of Ontario’s compost facilities, we will be starting our tour this year in Toronto. We’ll be meeting in Toronto at a downtown location at 8:00AM. (Registrants for this day will receive details upon registration.) The bus will be depart from the Holiday Inn Yorkdale (3450 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON) which is a short distance from our first tour stop, as well as being pretty easily accessible both by transit and by highway. Please note that due to the long driving schedule that day, the bus will be leaving at 8:00AM, so all participants please be sure to be ready! We suggest gathering at 7:45AM in the lobby if at all possible!
Facilities to be visited include:
City of Toronto’s Dufferin Organics Processing Facility The City of Toronto’s Dufferin Organics Processing Facility handles Green Bin Program organic waste (food scraps, paper towels, coffee grinds, diapers, pet waste, etc.) collected weekly from city homes and businesses. The system uses a biological process called anaerobic digestion to break down the organic material in an oxygen-deprived vessel, producing a digestate (organic solid material), which is sent to contractors for conversion into compost. Biogas, resulting from the anaerobic digestion, is slated to be refined and used to displace diesel from the City’s 300 waste collection vehicles.
Region of Peel IWMF and Curing Facilities Peel’s composting plant has the capacity to process 60,000 tonnes of organic material annually. Equipped with six 30-metre Christiaens aerated static tunnels, this plant processes SSO and yard waste collected from Brampton and Mississauga. After approximately seven to ten days, the material is removed from the boxes and delivered to the Peel Compost Curing Facility which utilizes Gore® System windrows for 6 – 8 weeks curing time. Finished compost is screened through a half inch wire screen to complete the process.
Miller Compost
(Pickering facility)		 Miller Compost opened its Pickering compost facility in 2006 as part of their Integrated Waste Management Facility which includes a waste transfer station, a residential household hazardous waste drop-off facility, a recycling facility, the in-vessel composting facility and waste collection and vehicle servicing facilities. The Composting facility has a permitted capacity of 50,000 tonnes/year for Source Separated Organics (SSO) composting and utilizes the Ebara aerobic, wide-bed, agitated composting system. SSO collected from Durham Region’s Green Bin program is composted for 21 days in the Pickering facility prior to being sent to an outdoor windrow composting facility for completing the composting and curing process. The compost produced is utilized in top soil blending, topdressing, horticulture and numerous landscaping applications.
Norterra Organics
(near Kingston, ON)		 Designed by Scott Environmental Group, the facility uses a laminate membrane technology developed by WL Gore and Associates to process a variety of organic wastes generated in the region. The facility is capable of processing 20,000 tonnes of organic waste annually from the residential, commercial, industrial and institutional sectors.