Case id
2025-245
Request
Date received
- Please provide data on number of visitors to the new reuse and recycling centre at NLWA. For each month since the facility at the Edmonton EcoPark opened to the public, please state how many individual visits there have been, and the total weight of the items recycled there.
- If it is possible to also separate the weight data by category (furniture, electrical, etc) please do so.
Response
Response date
There have been a total of just under 13,800 visitors at the EcoPark Reuse and Recycling Centre since it opened in July 2024 to February 2025.
| Period – 24/25 | Number of visitors |
| July | 1175 |
| August | 1962 |
| September | 1878 |
| October | 1409 |
| November | 1612 |
| December | 1969 |
| January | 1985 |
| February | 1798 |
Response 2:
The total weight of separated items collected for reuse or recycling, and bulky waste with persistent organic pollutants (treated as residual waste) and non-recyclable waste are provided below:
| Waste type | July | August | September | October | November | December | January | February | Total |
| Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | Weight (t) | |
| Bicycles | 0.42 | 0.42 | |||||||
| Books | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.9 | 0.68 | 1.14 | 3.53 | |||
| Bulky waste, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) | 3.8 | 8.46 | 8 | 9.4 | 13.26 | 9.84 | 11.64 | 5.52 | 69.92 |
| Car Batteries | 1.07 | 1.11 | 2.18 | ||||||
| Card | 2.12 | 7.98 | 5.56 | 6.2 | 6.66 | 9.22 | 8.16 | 8.98 | 54.88 |
| Carpet | 4.14 | 3.62 | 7.76 | 6.94 | 22.46 | ||||
| Fire Extinguishers | 0.12 | 0.12 | |||||||
| Furniture | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | ||||||
| Gas Bottles | 0.58 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.22 | 0.18 | 1.2 | |||
| Green Garden Waste | 14.92 | 22.28 | 17.26 | 15.26 | 14.42 | 8.1 | 11.06 | 2.54 | 105.84 |
| Hardcore | 10.44 | 26.92 | 27.3 | 23.5 | 24.1 | 23.98 | 27.98 | 7.38 | 171.6 |
| Household batteries | 0.34 | 0.34 | |||||||
| Residual waste | 24.4 | 41.9 | 41.02 | 51.02 | 43 | 54.86 | 54.1 | 21.72 | 332.02 |
| Paint | 1.1 | 1.55 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 7.65 | ||||
| Plasterboard | 3.54 | 7.2 | 8.46 | 19.2 | |||||
| Plastic | 1.52 | 4.34 | 1.04 | 2.48 | 0.94 | 2.32 | 1.66 | 14.3 | |
| Polystyrene | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Scrap Metal | 10.1 | 6.34 | 5.04 | 6.88 | 5.16 | 7.18 | 3.24 | 43.94 | |
| Textiles/Shoes | 1.16 | 4.18 | 2.26 | 3.48 | 3.4 | 2.84 | 4.06 | 21.38 | |
| Fridges & Freezers | 0.965 | 1.64 | 1.58 | 4.185 | |||||
| Large electrical domestic appliances | 2.6 | 2.5 | 5.1 | ||||||
| Small electrical domestic appliances | 4.58 | 5.28 | 5.04 | 14.9 | |||||
| TVs and Monitors | 1.521 | 2.036 | 0.483 | 4.04 | |||||
| Wood | 24.64 | 46.2 | 42.42 | 47.24 | 43.02 | 48.14 | 57.04 | 21.88 | 330.58 |
| Total | 83 | 182.11 | 157.91 | 178.676 | 178.656 | 175.623 | 203.47 | 71.44 | 1230.89 |
