A planetary atlas of material flowsOpening this view…
Start with an everyday object or material.
Jump directly to a material, regional account or named facility.
What happens after the bin? Explore collection, treatment and disposal, and follow the solid material, gas and water moving through a waste system.
A mixed bin combines materials that may have had other collection options. Its composition affects what happens later.
The route of a particular truck needs hauler evidence.
Hartland is the CRD’s documented regional solid-waste disposal facility. Acceptance at the site does not mean every received stream is buried.
Salt Spring-to-Hartland delivery is not established for every hauler.
An engineered landfill manages deposited waste and monitors environmental conditions. Much of the material remains stored on site.
The deposit can produce gas and contaminated water.
Hartland’s collection and upgrading route supplies the FortisBC gas network through Waga Energy equipment.
The acquired source does not give a measured capture fraction.
Hartland collects leachate in lagoons, tests it and discharges it to the sanitary sewer.
The specific next wastewater plant is not verified in this chain.
Explore the local operations and regional systems that collect, transform and recover this material.
Checking available records…
It recovers one output. Other material stays buried, gas can escape, and water needs management. One recovered stream does not account for all inputs.