During the past year, ETL has opened a high tech glass plant, an ultra-modern rigid container plant and a new fibre processing plant, bringing the facility total to five. The glass plant utilizes optical reading technology to automatically colour-sort broken glass in accordance with very precise standards from glass manufacturers. The rigid container plant sorts commingled containers by material type so that uniform homogeneous product can be marketed to end-users. This facility also provides a custom destruction service to the federal government and major consumer product manufacturers who require seized or out-or-date product such as liquor, soft drinks and beer to be disposed of in a secure and environmentally safe manner.

With the facilities up and running, the challenge is to process greater volumes in order to achieve planned economies and profitability. In pursuing this objective ETL has developed new services which leverage its ability to process a commingled product stream, which is a more attractive proposition to many waste haulers and commercial accounts. ETL is also sourcing material outside its local region by using its existing outbound shipments to justify the transportation costs involved.