Show me its safe: Questions abound over Manitoba waste diversion project – Winnipeg [Video]

A couple in St. Eustache, Man. are questioning the location of a piece of environmental technology aimed at diverting waste from landfills.

The Rapid Organic Converter (ROC) is a machine made by Manitoba company Innovative NRG. It uses a gasification process; whereby waste is heated and turned into gasses, which are then reignited to provide thermal energy.  The company’s flagship machine operates on the property of St. Eustache business Tritec Concrete, which uses the thermal energy it produces.

“Landfills are a big issue,” said Tritec CEO David Paz. “You got everything that goes to landfills. You have plastic, you got SRM which is special risk materials, those things are going to a landfill right now that has to be monitored, and that landfill is going to have to be monitored for centuries.”

Paz says the ROC has the potential to transform how industry deals with waste.

“Our suggestion is to …