Iqaluit begins pickup of junk cars, scrap metal

Summer 2008 - The city of Iqaluit is encouraging residents to part with their old vehicles and other scrap metal, which a Quebec firm has offered to ship south for proper disposal.

"This program that we're doing now is giving the residents the opportunity to remove these unwanted vehicles — cars, snowmobiles, ATVs — from their property, and … commercial property owners … [can] do the same thing, free of charge, without having to go pay any fees to dispose of them at a landfill site," said Gabe Gagnier, Iqaluit's director of public works

Recyclage Lévis Inc. will crush all the scrap metal in the Nunavut capital and ship it to the company's base in Montreal. The firm's owners approached the city earlier this year, offering to crush and ship the metal south for just a dollar — quite a deal for a city that has had to ship 300 to 400 old vehicles to southern Canada every year for disposal. The city will still have to pay the costs of picking up most of the scrap metal and moving it to a crushing machine, which will be stationed in Iqaluit's West 40 area. The Nunavut government has pitched in to help cover the costs of shipping the crushing equipment north via sea lift.

(Source: CBC News in August 2008 WasteWatch)

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