Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

On April 30, 2024, we approved an amendment to the Environmental Compliance Approval (a waste disposal site) No. A220249 issued to Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. for the addition of new waste types, waste processing activities and waste storage areas to the facility located at 25 Regan Road in Brampton, Ontario.

The following amendments to the site have been approved:

1. Changes to the acceptable waste types as follows:
   • removal of the limitation on solid non-hazardous waste types to allow for additional types of solid non-hazardous industrial waste to be received (not including mixed municipal waste or source separated organics)
   • addition of waste classes 243, 281, 282, and 311
   • addition of electronic waste, common mercury waste and intact batteries
2. General site modifications as follows:
   • installation of a paved and curbed access laneway to allow for the transfer of drums from the waste processing warehouse to the proposed drum processing area and mix pit
   • installation of a weigh scale as part of future works
   • the addition of a portable laboratory trailer
   • the addition of a sea container for the storage of up to 9 tonnes of intact batteries, including secondary containment
   • the addition of a sea container for the storage of up to 92 drums of oxidizers, including secondary containment
   • change to the waste type permitted to be stored and transferred at the rail spur line from bulk liquid waste to containerized waste only
   • the addition of a west storage area to allow for the outdoor storage of solidified/stabilized waste generated in the mix pit, with a maximum capacity of 10 trailers, 15 covered roll-off bins or 30 covered lugger bins, including secondary containment
3. Modifications to the storage warehouse to allow for the transfer and storage of a maximum of 1,250 hazardous waste drums (no processing), including secondary containment
4. Modifications to the waste processing warehouse to allow for:
   • the transfer and storage of hazardous waste drums (previously only liquid industrial waste and solid non-hazardous waste storage was permitted), including secondary containment
   • the addition of a Pumping/Bulking and Lab Packing Room to be used to sort and decant lab packs, bulk liquids and transfer liquids to the tank farm, including secondary containment
5. Modifications to the tank farm and transfer area to allow for:
   • an expansion to the concrete transfer pad to allow for two additional loading/unloading connections from incoming waste trucks to/from the bulk tanks
   • operationally driven upgrades to tanks (e.g. agitation, heating/heat tracing, insulation, and nitrogen blanketing) to assist in ensuring ongoing operations during the various seasons
   • flexibility in the waste types to be stored in the tanks (no new waste types can be stored)
6. Addition of a& mix pit, drum shredder, and solids area with a maximum waste storage/processing storage limit of 31,800 litres of waste located within a quonset hut, including:
   • a shredder for shredding waste containers (no compressed gas cylinders or drums that contain/contained ignitable waste, reactive waste, asbestos waste, severely toxic waste, or acute hazardous waste chemical), including secondary containment
   • a pit for bulking non-hazardous and hazardous waste (no corrosive waste, ignitable waste, reactive waste, asbestos waste, severely toxic waste, or acute hazardous waste chemical), stabilizing leachate toxic waste, and solidifying liquid industrial waste limited to sludges and slurries, including secondary containment with a blind sump for pump out to the tank farm or off-site disposal
   • staging area for the temporary storage of waste and solidifying/stabilization agents

There are no increases to the approved waste storage limit under this amendment. All other approved requirements are unchanged.

Refer to ERO # 019-6482 for the air/noise Environmental Compliance Approval that was required for this amendment.