The Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre’s C&D site is an area where residents and businesses can drop off their material from construction and demolition jobs. There are separate piles of drywall, shingles, brush, clean wood, concrete, and scrap metal.

It is important to keep construction and demolition material out of the landfill for many reasons. One reason is the fact that the material is bulky and takes up valuable landfill space. Another reason is that drywall produces hydrogen sulphide gas when exposed to wet conditions.

Most of the C&D waste is sent off site to be processed. Drywall is shipped off site to be made into new drywall. Shingles are ground on-site and used in road applications. Clean wood and brush are chipped on-site and used in the composting process.

These are the piles of brush and scrap metal.

These are piles of drywall and shingles.

The process of grinding shingles.

Loading drywall to be shipped off site and processed.

The process of grinding wood.

The finished product. These wood chips from our brush and clean wood pile will be used in the composting process and as mulch around OVWRC grounds.