Francis Cooke Regional Class III Landfill and Resource Recovery Centre

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The Francis Cooke Regional Class III Landfill is located 4 km east of the Hamlet of Exshaw on Highway 1A which is 16 km east of the Town of Canmore. Enter left onto the access road and follow along to the right up to the Scale House.

HOURS OF OPERATION: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Closed statutory holidays.

No loads accepted after 3:45 p.m. Clients must be off the site by 4 pm. To be eligible for normal on-time fees any loads that require extra time on our site must arrive by 3:30 pm to allow time for proper handling and to be off site by 4 pm. All loads must be properly tarped or financial penalties may be charged.

The Francis Cooke Regional Class III Landfill and Resource Recovery Centre is a dry waste landfill. No food, domestic or household garbage, hazardous wastes or liquids can be disposed at this site.

A LEADER IN RECYCLING

We only accept inert solid waste at our working face where the waste is buried. However not all dry waste brought to our site is landfilled. With consistently over 50 percent of the waste being diverted from burial, our site functions more like a Resource Recovery Centre than a landfill.

Materials diverted from landfill disposal are either shipped off-site for recycling or further modified to produce a useful product.

Although we are diverting a significant amount of material from the landfill part of our operation, we want to divert even more. We have set a diversion goal of 80%. Much of this will come from construction waste in cooperation with our local industry. Our Member municipalities also support this goal through various programs.