Odour Control
Waste Management Services is working to improve odour management at its facilities. Efforts to reduce odours at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre include:
- The Edmonton Composting Facility is fully enclosed and uses odour-control filters in ventilation. All seals are being checked and doors are being replaced.
- An enhanced misting system is being installed in key areas of the Integrated Processing and Transfer Facility and the Edmonton Composting Facility. This misting system sprays an odour-neutralizing compound and will be in place before spring.
- Yard waste composting activity is restricted to between 9am and 3pm, to reduce potential for odours in the evening.
- Turning of composting piles outdoors is completed before 3pm, to reduce potential for odours in the evening.
The City's 24-hour Odour Hotline is 311, and all calls are logged. If we receive more than one call from an area within a day, we have a consultant visit the neighbourhood and the Edmonton Waste Management Centre to investigate and log information on the odour, as well as current wind and weather conditions. We then analyze the data to help us better manage our operations.
See the EWMC Odour Control Matrix for a detailed list of our operational activities for reducing odours.
For more information:
| Online | Contact 311 Online |
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| Telephone | In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
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| TTY | 780-944-5555 |
| 311@edmonton.ca |
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