From Landfill to Wood Flooring

The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is looking to expand a program that diverts the city's fallen trees from the landfill and channels them into useable products, including wood flooring, reports the Winnipeg Sun. Currently a local company, Wood Anchor, uses the city's trees that have fallen due to disease, storms and other causes to create products, mostly wood flooring, at an off-site facility. The city of Winnipeg would like to expand that program; ideally, a firm would set up an on-site processing plant and possibly a retail outlet at the landfill. In return, the company would have free access to the roughly 2,500 tons of elm and 1,000 tons of ash, maple, linden, poplar and other trees that are hauled to the landfill every year, the paper reports.

"One of the things we want to do is transform people's ideas of a 'dump' to seeing it as an environmental management centre," Darryl Drohomerski, Winnipeg's manager of solid waste services, told the Sun. Companies have until Dec. 10 to express their interest; interested parties should contact Darcy Strandberg at 204/986-5108 or [email protected]. Information on the project can be found here.