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Making More From Waste

UK Division Spring 2015 Newsletter

Orgaworld Canada has always been part of the Shanks Group, the largest listed independent waste management Orgaworld Celebrates Its
company in Europe, under the Organics division. 3rd Annual Open House Barbeque

As of April 1, 2015, Shanks Group was reorganized. Orgaworld Canada will now report to the Municipal Division On May 30th, Orgaworld’s London facility celebrated its 3rd Annual Open House Barbeque. In 2013,
in the United Kingdom, since Orgaworld’s main source of activity is Municipal. The new head of the Municipal the London facility had its inaugural open house barbeque. We had hamburgers, hotdogs, snacks
Division in the United Kingdom is Peter Eglinton. and drinks and it was a time for our friends, family and all of our neighbours to come and see what
goes into making our compost. We have enjoyed seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones each
This realignment will prove beneficial to us at Orgaworld Canada in terms of synergies and greater access to year.
technical expertise and capital that will lead to expanded growth opportunities beyond just organics. Our future
here in Canada is bright. Our General Manager Our Manager of Special
Dale Harley (left) and City Projects Greg Mariotti
Good News Moments (right) with Rick Sittler
of London Councillor of Sittler Grinding (left)
Orgaworld is happy to announce the long awaited wedding of our dedicated loader operator Michael Van Holst (right)
Darrell Morgan and his long time girlfriend Lyndsi. They celebrated in Niagara Falls with close
friends and family from out of town with their two children by their sides. We wish them a long Sittler Grinding provides Orgaworld with Biofilter
and happy life filled with wonderful memories. Needless to say, he was just a little happy about Material – a wood media used in our process.
the whole thing.
We were very happy to welcome back Kathy’s Catering
We are very happy to have our resident Canada Geese, Hank and Harriet, back from their from St. Thomas, who provided us with all of our food and
long winter away down south. They returned early this spring and began nesting in
preparation for the arrival of their offspring. A few weeks ago, we were privileged to be drinks for the day.
introduced to their seven little goslings. They spend their days enjoying life around our Raymond Brothers from London provided us with a large
ponds and being taught the very important life lesson of road safety. We enjoy watching
them grow and look forward to seeing them return next spring. tent which was a nice reprieve from the heat.

On Monday, June 1st, we had the pleasure of having Judy Dyck, Honourary Consul, Kingdom of We were lucky enough to have mother nature on our side this year with clear blue
the Netherlands from Saskatoon tour our London facility. She was here to explore potential skies and beautiful sunshine to kick off the event. It was a great afternoon with lots
technologies that can make a valuable contribution to waste diversion in Saskatoon. Our of food: hamburgers, hotdogs, popcorn, and drinks.
Operations Manager Sandra Drouillard, showed her through the process including our
processing and odour abatement and systems. For all of those people who wanted an all access guided tour, our Operations Manager Sandra
Drouillard and her wonderful team were on hand to show them inside the facility.
On June 12th 2015, we will be celebrating with our Ottawa employee Leigh Moulton, as
she graduates from her Bachelor of Science degree at University of Ottawa where she is The tour started in the receiving bay where all of the material enters the facility. Then it was on to the
a Bio-Med student. She will be graduating with honours. In addition to her degree, Leigh
has completed her MCATS. She plans on taking a year off from her studies but will return terminator, the screening line, the tunnels where the material is composted and finally onto the
to school to become a Nurse Practitioner. Leigh is very proud to be a part of the
Orgaworld team and so are her parents. compost shelter where our final product stays and matures until it is shipped out to our farmers.

Incoming Waste Bay Screening Line Compost Shelter

Contact us at The process from Once in the compost
[email protected] | www.orgaworld.ca start to finish takes shelter, it matures for

between 21 days.

28-31 days.

Orgaworld Canada Orgaworld London Orgaworld Ottawa It was a great afternoon and we look forward to seeing even more new faces next year.

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One Million Tree Challenge Back In The Neighbourhood Upcoming
Events
Orgaworld Canada is happy to be a major On April 13th and 14th, Orgaworld’s Special When Orgaworld first opened its London facility seven years ago, we were
corporate sponsor for London Ontario's Million Projects Manager, Dr. Greg Mariotti, was a a smaller company with only a few employees. We were all working at the This fall, we will be
Tree challenge. You can read more about these guest speaker at the BioCycle West Coast plant. We knew that we could not grow as a company unless we branched participating in the
local initiatives at the links below. Conference in Portland, Oregon. out into new office space. We found an office space that fit our needs of Compost Council of
more space at 150 Kent Street. Canada’s pumpkin
At Orgaworld, we enjoy giving back to our BioCycle is a monthly magazine which has growing competition.
community and the Re-Forest London initiative is been published since 1960. BioCycle is the For the past two years, 150 Kent Street has been home to Orgaworld “Compost Giants” – The
a natural fit with Orgaworld's ongoing concern for go-to magazine and website on composting, Canada’s head office team and has served us well. It afforded us the
and commitment to a more sustainable organics recycling, anaerobic digestion and necessary room to grow as a company and the much needed space to 8th Annual Great
environment. renewable energy. spread our wings. Pumpkin.

Orgaworld will be sponsoring a school project The conference featured speakers from all The long term goal for the company however, was to find a location that We will use our compost,
that is planned with approximately 300 or more over the world who are experts in their would fit all of our needs which included being close to our London facility, and of course some TLC,
young trees and shrubs to be planted in an area respective fields. It was an opportunity to with room enough for everyone, and the potential for growth in the future.
of a popular local park. It is a large grow and learn about new technologies. We needed a location that would be easily accessible for all of our to grow as big and as
neighbourhood park that has bike paths, shade Dr. Mariotti’s topic was “Lessons Learned on employees, visitors and neighbours as well. grand a pumpkin as we
trees, access to climbers and open green space. the Road Towards Zero Odour.” can (1000lbs+) which will
The naturalization will be along an area that is He talked about the importance of We are glad to be back in the neighbourhood, where it all began seven
currently less utilized and will help to bring more Stakeholder Management, continuous years ago. Our hope is that our neighbours and others within the community then face the tough
ecological diversity to the park. It will also provide improvement within the company and its will take the time to come and see our new location and meet the other competition of our
valuable storm water management and prevent facilities, the operational best practices, and members of the Orgaworld Canada Team.
erosion of the slope in the park. Students play in performance metrics such as regular neighbouring
this park during their school recess and lunch monitoring and testing, sniff tours and odour The new office will also be the location of our quarterly PLC meetings. We municipalities to see who
periods and this area will also be a Nature Study complaint registries. welcome all of our neighbours and community members to join us in our
area for teachers to bring their classes out to The conference is always a perfect place to boardroom on September 3rd at 6pm. has grown the biggest
observe and study. build new relationships with those within the and best pumpkin.
waste management field and is a highlight for Our old office 150 Kent Street It is so great to be close to our
This fall, at another public school, Orgaworld will us at Orgaworld. London facility. The final weigh-in is
work with the students and the Re-Forest London scheduled for October
team to plant a reading circle with 3 to 5 shade -Hilary, Office Administrator
trees, shrubs and a butterfly garden on their 2nd, 2015.
school property which will be part of an Outdoor
Learning Environment. If we win, we will receive
$500 to donate to a
Just think, 25 years from now we could all be
lying under beautiful trees, enjoying a book with horticultural initiative in
our grandkids as a butterfly wafts by on the our area.
breeze...and we helped make it happen.
Our new office 2940
www.reforestlondon.ca and www.milliontrees.ca Dingman Drive

For anyone that is interested in touring our London or Ottawa facilities, We welcome any and all who are interested in learning more about our
please contact Sandra Drouillard at [email protected]. facilities and the wonderful world of compost.