WATCH: The City of Calgary is investing $88 million -- $38 million more than it budgeted -- on a new composting facility that will increase capacity and is hoped to decrease the smell for area residents. Doug Vaessen reports.The Calgary Composting Facility in the Shepard Waste Management Facility in southeast Calgary is already one of the largest of its kind in Canada but it will soon be much larger.
It will be dealing with 160,000 tonnes a year of table scraps and yard waste when it becomes operational by the end of 2025. But Taneen Rudyk, past president of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities, says Calgary will get $23 million out of its green fund. Craig More, with the city’s waste and recycling department, says it’s hoped this expansion might prevent bad smells from being passed on because of new anaerobic consumption technology.