New recycling plant in Hamilton brings 50 jobs
April 29, 2010
BY ERIC McGUINNESS
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/760420
Hamilton is about to get a construction-waste processing plant its builders say will create 50 jobs and recycle up to 96 per cent of the wood, plastic and metal received.
The company, Countrywide Recycling Inc., says it will be the first of its kind in Ontario and one of only two or three in Canada.
Rob Cook, president of the Ontario Waste Management Association, says there are several similar plants in Ontario, but none achieving a diversion rate of 90 per cent or better.
Countrywide is owned by home builder John Voortman; his wife, Marie, and partner Dave Burtt. They bought 4.5 hectares of city land on Nebo Road in the Red Hill Industrial Park where they are ready to erect a building big enough to hold four NHL-sized ice rinks. An Environment Ministry certificate of approval is pending.