NV firm intends to
process biodegradables

FOOD WASTE, cnce destined for local landfills, will
become a recycled and marketable product in the next few
weeks when North Vancouver’s International Bio Waste
Corp. plans to come on line with its biodegradable
waste-processing equipment and technology.

The company will receive fruit
and vegetable waste from food
processing plants and supermarket
produce departments.

The waste will be put iato seal-
ed ‘‘digestion’’ tanks, and in less
that 48 hours the material will be
digested and dried.

“I's a natural process, we add
heat. We can produce a variety of
end-products. It could be peliets,
in could be flakes, it could be
semi-moist,’’ said International
Bio Waste Corp. president Aris
Morfopoulos.

The finished products are then
sold to other manufacturers as
primary ingredients of fertilizers.

The North Vancouver plant is
designed to process 120 tonnes of
food waste a day.

Added Morfopoulos, ‘‘It's not
really composting, although in the
scientific sense it’s the same pro-
cess ~~ it’s in-vessel digestion. [t
takes place in big digestion tanks.
You can control the bio-chemical
reaction and optimize the process
of biological degradation. We
basically get a finished product in
a very short period of time, so
you can put through more.”’

There are two carrots offered
the suppliers of the food waste.

“For the suppliers of the food
waste it’s as much an environmen-
tally-conscious thing: to do as a
cost-saving thing to do. We’re go-
ing to charge them less than what
the landfill charges,’’ he said.

Michael

HIGH TECH

Once operational, the
biodegradable waste processing
and recycling plant will be unique.

Said Morfopoules, who left a
job as general manager of Inter-
national Hard Suits Inc. to start
the new venture, ‘I don’t know
anyone else who is doing it the
way we’re doing it. We’ve resear-
ched it as a business project for
the past two years. We identified
the potential, and all the numbers
added up.

“It’s an everybody-win situa-
tion, the customers win, the en-
vironment wins, the landfill wins
and hopefully the business wins,
too,’”’ he added.

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NOTICE TO MOTORISTS
PORTEAU BLUFFS ROCK SCALING PROJECT
SEA-TO-SKY HIGHWAY 99

The Ministry of Transportation and Highways advises that there will be week- I
day closures on the Sea-to-Sky Highway at Porteau Bluffs, 25 km north of &

Horseshoe Bay, from Monday September 30 until Friday November 1. The Bim
closures are needed far rock scaling, bolting and blasting work. Closures are Ei
scheduled as follows:

Monday to Thursday
12:00 Midnight - 5:30 AM
10:00 AM — 12:30 Noon
1:30 PM — 4:00 PM
There will be no closures on Friday afternoons, weekends, statutory holidays,
Advance Polling Days or on Election Day.

For further information, please contact the Ministry of Transportation and
Highways 24-Hour Road Report at 525-4997 (Greater Vancouver), 938-4997

Friday
12:00 Midnight - 5:30 AM
10:00 AM - 12:30 Noon

(Whistler), 371-4997 (Kamloops), 860-4997 (Kelowna), 855-4997 (Abbotsford),

380-4997 (Victoria). In all other areas please call 1-800-663-4997.

Province of
British Columbia
= Ministry of Transportation
and Highways
Hon. Lyal! Hanson, Minister

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