EverGen announces 5-year waste processing agreement with Canadian city

EverGen Infrastructure Corp., a Canadian renewable natural gas infrastructure platform, has been awarded a new five-year agreement with Abbotsford, British Columbia, to process the city’s organic waste under its curbside collection program, which is expected to be approximately 17,600 tons annually, at EverGen’s Pacific Coast Renewables (PCR) facility.

The facility continues to process organic waste from the city of Abbotsford, as well as the cities of Chilliwack and Coquitlam, making it one of the few permitted organics processing facilities in the region.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with the city of Abbotsford in managing their organic waste. With our recently completed composting upgrades at the Pacific Coast Renewables facility, we have established a state-of-the-art central processing hub for the region,” says Mischa Zajtmann, CEO and president of EverGen. “With the support of the city, this contract will supply the valuable feedstock for a future RNG processing facility at PCR.”

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Major upgrades at the PCR facility, which helped support the recent five-year agreement with the city of Abbotsford, have been completed and include a new aerated flooring system, advanced automation, improvements to compost blowers, upgraded temperature monitoring equipment and the construction of stormwater diversion infrastructure.

A strategic compost marketing agreement has been executed with a third-party vendor to manage the distribution of all soil produced at PCR. This partnership streamlines logistical operations at the facility and is expected to result in significant cost reductions through reduced marketing expenses and an expected 90 percent reduction in disposal costs associated with byproducts of the composting process, with the potential to convert a once significant cost for the PCR facility into an additional revenue stream.