Nanaimo Facility Details
ICC’s first facility opened April 1, 2004, located at Duke Point, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The land and building for the Nanaimo Regional Composting Facility are located at 981 Maughan Road, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9X 1J2, and comprises of a 23,000 square foot building on a paved three acre site. The operation in Nanaimo contains 6 full time staff.- The facility has a current capacity of 100 tonnes per day and is currently processing over 90 tonnes per day of SSO waste and yard & garden waste. The facility is designed to handle a maximum intake of 150 tonnes per day.
- The facility utilizes ICC’s patented flow through, in-vessel bioreaction technology. The unique ICC Bioreaction process meets or exceeds all organics processing standards worldwide and yet is inexpensive to operate, positioning ICC as a global leader in organic waste to compost technology integration.
- ICC’s Nanaimo Facility serves two functions.
- First, it facilitates ICC’s need for a full-scale Research & Development centre.
- Second, ICC can utilize the facility as the perfect technology showcase. From this technology base, ICC is capitalizing on a number of opportunities.
- On June 1, 2005, the Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) placed a ban on all organics being dumped into the landfill to come into effect in June 2010. At this time, approximately 30 tonnes per day of organic matter was recovered from the waste stream and diverted to ICC’s facility in Nanaimo.
- In 2006, ICC began partnering with local municipalities on Vancouver Island to secure the supply of SSO waste through the development of curb side collection programs. The Town of Ladysmith issued the first residential organics pilot program and was soon followed by the Capital Regional District (Oak Bay and View Royal). In total, over 6,000 homes are now receiving curb side organics collection, with approximately 30 tonnes per week of organics material being sent to ICC’s composting facility in Nanaimo.
- The commercial viability of the business model has been validated with the facility in Nanaimo now being cash flow positive, as well as the sale of a compost facility into Scotland in March of 2007.
- In May 2010, ICC obtained a 5-year contract (renewable for 5-years) from the RDN for source separated residential waste for approximately 50,000 households in the entire regional district. This is a “put or pay” contract for a minimum annual payment.
- In 2010, ICC upgraded the Nanaimo plant to convert organic waste to energy solutions (heat and electricity) and is used as ICC’s R&D facility to further develop organic waste to synthetic biofuel (biodiesel & jet fuel).
“Without the investment and commitment of ICC to organic waste diversion, the award-winning RDN Zero Waste Program would not be the success that it is today.”- Carey McIver, Manager, Solid Waste