IQALUIT, NUNAVUT — The City of Iqaluit in Nunavut will be getting $35 million in joint federal and municipal funding to improve the efficiency of a solid waste management system in the city.
The Solid Waste Facilities project includes replacing the city’s existing landfill, which has reached the end of its useful life, and constructing a new landfill. It includes the development of a new recycling and eco-centre, composting and new methods of waste collection for residential, commercial and industrial waste, states an Infrastructure Canada release. Funding will also be used for the construction of a road to the landfill and the decommissioning of the existing site.
The federal government is providing more than $26.2 million for the project and the city is providing over $8.7 million.
Federal funding for the new facility will come from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Plan, which is being delivered in Nunavut through an agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Nunavut.
The project is expected to improve the health and safety of the community, while protecting the environment. It will also reduce the environmental impact, including greenhouse gas emissions, and improve the city’s air quality, the release reads.
“I am pleased to be able to announce that our city will have the waste management system that it so desperately needs,” said Madeleine Redfern, mayor of the City of Iqaluit, in the statement. “I know the community of Iqaluit will be tremendously relieved to see action being taken to protect our wildlife and environment.”
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