City of Toronto Creating Renewable Natural Gas from Green Bin Waste
The City of Toronto’s Solid Waste Management Services Division, working with Enbridge Gas Inc., has installed infrastructure at the Dufferin Solid Waste Management Facility that will allow it to create renewable natural gas (RNG) from Green Bin organics. The new equipment will enable the City to take the raw biogas produced from processing Green Bin organics, turn it into RNG and inject it into the natural gas (NG) grid for City use.
The City has also identified potential biogas/landfill gas upgrading opportunities at several other City waste facilities including the Disco Road Solid Waste Management Facility, Green Lane Landfill, and Keele Valley Landfill. All four sites combined would have the potential to produce enough gas to fulfill the City’s entire natural gas needs annually (excluding City Agency, Boards and Commissions). The next facility to receive RNG infrastructure will be the Disco Road Solid Waste Management Facility, with plans to have this site up and running by the end of 2023.