FAQ
Yes. Paper, plastics, metals and other potentially recyclable materials cannot be recycled if they are soiled and are thus rejected and sent to landfill. Furthermore, soiled materials can contaminate other DRY waste rendering those materials unrecyclable.
Tipping fees are the fees charged for the delivery of waste to the Waste Management Facility. The 2012 tipping fee at the Sussex Transfer Station is $92.69 per tonne.
DRY waste consists of household waste that is not WET waste, and includes both recyclables and non-recyclable materials. Some examples include bottles, packaging, clothing, paper, plastics, wood and metal. DRY items should be cleared of debris by rinsing, wiping or shaking before placing them in your DRY bag.
Illegal dumping is an issue around the Province and has a detrimental impact on our environment and is visually offensive. The Kings County Region Solid Waste Commission encourages all residents to report any illegal dumping site in our region by calling a toll free number – 1-877-777-4218 or electronically by sending an e-mail to: report@nbnet.nb.ca.
WET waste is mostly made up of compostable materials, but also includes soiled or sanitary items. Anything that could contaminate your DRY waste should be placed in your WET bag. Some examples include meat and bones, table scraps, fruit and vegetable peels
Prior to the implementation of the WET/DRY Program, each landfill cell had a life span of less than one year. Based on current participation in the WET/DRY Program, the latest cell is projected to last up to three years. With continued composting and recycling efforts by residents, our landfill is now expected to last over 140 years.
If you live in a Local Service District you would contact your Local Services Manager, Brian Lamb at 506-832-6000 or if you live in a Municipality contact them directly at: Village of Norton, 839-3010; Village of Sussex Corner, 433-5184; or the Town of Sussex - 432-4540.
Studies have indicated that our current sanitary landfill site, which sits on 1272 acres of land in Berry Mills has a life expectancy of 100 years without the diversion of materials
Leachate is any liquid and suspended materials that it contains that has percolated through or drained from a municipal waste facility.
Traditional landfills, often referred to as “open” or “polluting” dumps, simply contain waste under the ground, potentially allowing a waste by-product called leachate to enter and contaminate groundwater and other water sources. They also attract rodents, insects and other disease-carrying vermin. Other negative effects of open dumps include emission of air pollution, odors and the creation of potential fire hazards. In a sanitary landfill these risks are virtually eliminated, thanks in part to protective liners and monitoring systems that ensure there is no harm being done to the environment.
No. Most empty household hazardous waste containers (e.g. paint, aerosols, cleaning products) can be placed with your DRY garbage. Paint cans should have the lid removed and any remaining paint must be dried before placing it in the blue bag.
Every spring and fall the Commission holds a Household Hazardous Waste Day at the Sussex Transfer Station where Westmorland-Albert’s hazardous waste mobile unit comes to take collect hazardous waste from our region. This service is free-of-charge to all residents serviced by the Kings County Region Solid Waste Commission.
Hazardous waste is just that, hazardous. In the interest of the safety of yourself, your family, your pets and sanitation workers, hazardous waste cannot be included with your regular garbage pick-up. Chemicals, fuels, computer monitors, syringes and other household hazardous waste all pose a serious threat to anyone handling them, particularly if they don’t know these wastes are present. These products can ignite in dumpsters or trucks, they are often harmful to the environment and they could contaminate compost and recyclable materials, making them undesirable for the market place and force them to the landfill.
Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) is found in virtually every home. The most recognizable of these wastes are products that carry labels such as poisonous, corrosive, reactive or flammable, but there are other hazardous wastes that are not so easily identified, such as syringes, batteries and nail polish remover. HHW is not an acceptable municipal waste and is not permitted in either your WET or DRY waste.
Although not encouraged, you can use smaller non-transparent bags such as grocery bags and place them inside the appropriate transparent green or blue bags for disposal as long as they contain separated WET and DRY waste. If you do use these bags, do not tie them as the bag openers are not designed to open such small bags.
To participate in the WET/DRY Program you must use transparent green and blue bags. The transparency of these bags addresses one major concern - the safety of residents, garbage collectors and the staff who sort the waste because potential hazards inside the bags can be easily identified.
Furthermore, the green and blue transparent bags have proven to be the key to successful waste diversion in other areas. The colors provide important visual reminders when discarding your waste and the transparency ensures lower levels of waste stream contamination. In the home, at the curb, and at all related sorting facilities, there is no confusion about the bag contents.In September 2001, the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation, through the assistance of the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund, was able to launch the first Curbside Sneaker Recycling Program in North America through Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe Program. The Corporation ships approximately 60,000 sneakers annually to the Nike Recycling Center in Wilsonville, Oregon where they are shredded and eventually made into innovative sports surfaces around the world.
Diverting 60,000 athletic shoes from landfill saves approximately 375 cubic meters of landfill space and completes the life cycle of sneakers from athletic footwear to athletic surfaces.The compost produced in Westmorland-Albert’s Wet Plant has been used on their site during cell closure projects and is occasionally used as daily cover on the landfill face. Recyclable materials are sold to various markets for the fabrication on new products. Mixed paper is recycled to produce the liner board (smooth layers) and cardboard is recycled to produce liner board and medium cardboard (corrugated layers) in corrugated cardboard boxes. Stretch film and filler plastic are recycled to produce plastic lumber.
Depending on where the product is shipped, newsprint can be recycled to produce drink trays, egg cartons, fruit trays, fruit cartons and fast food trays. It may also be recycled into newsprint, paper liner for gyproc, kitty litter and insulation. Number 2 natural plastic can be recycled to produce #2 plastic in much the same way that aluminum cans are recycled to produce new aluminum cans. The majority or co-mingled plastic ends up in the carpet or plastic lumber industry. After all traces of wax have been removed from the inside and outside of the milk cartons, they are recycled into a very expensive writing paper. PETT plastics are recycled for the clothing and carpet industry. Finally, sneakers are shipped to Nike’s Recycling Center in Wilsonville, Oregon and recycled into athletic surfaces such as equestrian flooring, playground surfaces and basketball courts.When WET waste is received at the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation’s facility from the Kings region it is taken to the WET plant tipping floor. It is then loaded onto a conveyor and sent through a bag opener. The waste is then introduced to a rotating trommel screen. Materials larger than approximately 3”, such as baby diapers and containers, are retained by the screen and area rejected to landfill. Organic material falls through and continues through the process, passing under a magnet to remove ferrous metals. It is then shredded, mixed with bulking agents such as wood shavings, and directed to one of eight silos for primary composting.
The decomposing material is computer-controlled for air, moisture and temperature levels and is regularly turned by machinery, which pushes the materials a few meters a day until it reaches the end of the silo. By the time the material reaches the end of the silo, it has been 90% composted and is discharged to the refining system where foreign materials are removed from the finished compost before it is directed to a maturing pad outside the Wet Plant. The entire process from raw materials to useable compost takes approximately 6-8 months.When DRY waste is received at the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation’s facility from the Kings region it is taken to the DRY plant tipping floor. It is then loaded onto a conveyor and sent through the pre-sort station where bulky items and non-transparent bags are removed from the waste stream before the remaining blue bags are passed through a mechanical bag opener. Large pieces of cardboard are also recovered at the presort station.
Once the bags have been opened, the waste passes through the first sorting station. Staff manually removes large objects, including cardboard, bulky items and reject materials. The cardboard is directed to a recycling bin, while bulky items and reject material are stored for delivery to the landfill cell. The waste moves onto a fine-screen to remove small debris, and is then transported to the second sorting station where cardboard, plastic film, plastic containers, glass, sneakers, coffee cups and cell phones are manually recovered.
After the second sorting station, the waste is sent through the manual separator. The material separator divides the waste into two distinct streams: a “flat” stream composed mostly of paper products, and a “round” stream that includes mostly containers and plastics. The “flats” are directed to the third sorting station where any plastics or other contaminants are removed. “Rounds” are directed to the fourth sorting station where milk cartons, mixed plastics, clear plastics, PET, and all redeemable containers, including nonferrous metals, are extracted. A magnetic separator then removes all ferrous materials from the remaining waste.
Reject material from sorting stations three and four are directed to trailers for disposal in the landfill cell.Only the Town of Sussex and the Village of Sussex Corner currently offer scheduled spring and fall clean-ups each year. The Village of Norton and the unincorporated do not.
Residents of the Village of Norton and unincorporated areas can have their bulk items picked up at curbside by their hauler by requesting pick-up two weeks in advance. Residents must contact their hauler at the following numbers:
Martin Trucking 506-485-0907
Rivervalley Sanitation 506-839-2234
Belyea Trucking 506-488-9105
Palmer Trucking 506-362-5412
There is a maximum number of bulk items that can be picked up in a calendar year and residents always have the option of taking their items to the Sussex Transfer Station and pay the tipping fee for disposal.Yes, your sorted waste does remain separate on the truck. While some waste haulers use two separate vehicles for WET and DRY waste, the majority of waste haulers in the Kings County region use special split-box trucks which contain two separate compartments - one for WET and one for DRY.
When the waste is taken to the Sussex Transfer Station it is dumped in two separate areas – one WET and one DRY – and then transported separately to the Westmorland-Albert Solid Waste Corporation facility for processing.On January 1st, 2001, the two-bag WET/DRY system was introduced in our service area. For the first few years, the Commission encouraged residents to participate voluntarily in the WET/DRY program and monitored compliance throughout the region. In addition to monitoring compliance, extensive door-to-door campaigns were held to provide residents with information on the program and encourage them to participate.
By April 2006, all 3 Municipalities and all 14 unincorporated areas in our region were mandatory WET/DRY. We were proud to be the first Commission in the Province to have our entire region mandatory WET/DRY and to this day, that statistic still remains true.Broken glass can be wrapped in newspaper before being placed in the DRY bag to prevent injury to those who will be handling your waste.
When unwrapping meat packaging, the plastic wrap and absorbent pad should be placed in your WET bag and the styrofoam tray should be rinsed and placed in the DRY bag. All waxed paper products are WET.
Martin Trucking - 506-485-0907
Parish of Havelock - Wednesday
Parish of Studholm - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Rivervalley Sanitation - 506-839-2234
Parish of Cardwell - Thursday
Parish of Hammond - Tuesday
Parish of Norton - Friday
Parish of Sussex - Tuesday, Wednesday
Parish of Upham - Monday
Parish of Waterford - Friday
Palmer Trucking 506-362-5412
Village of Norton - Wednesday
Belyea Trucking 506-488-9105
Parish of Kars - Friday
Parish of Springfield - Thursday
Parish of Brunswick - Wednesday
Parish of Johnston - Wednesday
Parish of Waterborough - Monday
Parish of Wickham - Tuesday
Devine Sanitation - 506-433-2582
Town of Sussex - Tuesday & Wednesday
Village of Sussex Corner - Monday
(Subject to change due to tenders)Sussex Waste Management Ltd.
54 McLeod Drive
Sussex, NB
E4E 2P5
Telephone: 506-433-3836
Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
