A meeting and our next edition

Today I’m having lunch with Wes Muir, director of communications for Waste Management, and our publisher, Brad O’Brien. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about recent changes at the world’s largest waste services company, which recently underwent an internal realignment, and which also has some interesting projects on the go. One such project is an enormous single-stream recycling plant in Peel Region that will open in early 2006 which we plan to profile in our February/March edition.
I’m also heading over to our corporate office in Toronto to review the final proofs of our December/January edition before they go to press. We have an excellent article lineup and I offer you a preview below by way of reproducing our Table of Contents for that edition. Please note that the December/January edition features our 2006 Annual Buyer’s Guide — a handy edition to keep on your office shelf throughout the year as a reference for all your waste industry product and service needs. At the bottom of the Contents page, you’ll see a glimpse of what’s coming in the February/March edition.

Here’s the article line-up from the December/January edition, from our upcoming Contents page:
COVER STORY
Calgary’s Curbside Decision
After the City of Calgary council endorsed a new goal of 80 per cent waste diversion by 2020, triple-bottom-line analysis tipped the scales in favour of curbside collection of recyclables and organics.
By Guy Crittenden…8
DIVERSION: MARKHAM’S “MISSION GREEN”
How this Ontario city pulled ahead with over 60 per cent diversion.
By Ben Bennett…18
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP: E-WASTE EXCELLENCE.
A tour of Noranda Recycling Inc.’s plant in Brampton, Ontario.
By Guy Crittenden…20
LANDFILL TECHNOLOGY: ENERGY FROM GAS
EPCOR Distribution’s facility at Edmonton’s Clover Bar Landfill…49
DEPARTMENTS
Editorial 4
Up Front 6
Composting Matters 22
Events 42
Regulation Roundup 44
Commodities Corner 46
Waste Business 47
News 50
Ad Index 52
Internet Directory 60
Final Analysis 62
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: THE 2006 BUYERS’ GUIDE pages 25-40
NEXT EDITION
Supplement: Ontario IC&I waste services special insert
Supplement: Hauling/Transportation and Materials Handling Equipment
Results of our annual online industry survey. Single-stream MRF. Large organics plant. Restaurant waste program. C&D waste. Shredder technology.
Advertisers, contact Publisher Brad O’Brien at 1-888-702-1111 ext. 2