January 2016

To our customers, staff and friends,

Looking Back and Looking Forward – Two Exciting Years!

It is customary at the beginning of each year to reflect on the previous 12 months, celebrating accomplishments and taking stock of what can be changed and improved. It is also customary to look forward to the New Year to make commitments and resolutions promising renewed energy and progress.

At Emterra, we are in the extraordinary position of being able both to look back with the knowledge that we accomplished a great deal...and look forward with a sense of excitement and anticipation.

What gives 2015 a special shine for us is that we were able to establish three new compressed natural gas (CNG) fuelling stations AND open them to the public, one in Chilliwack, B.C., one in Victoria, B.C. and another in Mississauga, Ontario. This is an unprecedented move. The new facility in Mississauga is the largest CNG fuelling station in Canada that is open to the public. This not only allows Emterra to lower our carbon emissions at various locations throughout the country so that we can become more sustainable, but it also empowers other fleet owners and operators to be greener and more competitive in the transportation industry. We think it’s a game changer.

Looking forward to 2016, we can hardly contain our excitement. It will be our 40th anniversary and we are planning to celebrate with employees, customers and friends throughout the year! In the stories below we unveil our new 40th anniversary logo.

I would like to wish our readers and families a happy, prosperous and safe New Year.

Best wishes,

 

 

2016 is going to be a banner year for Emterra. We turn 40 and we’re kicking it off by unveiling a new anniversary logo, presented here for the first time. We’re planning a year of events for Emterra employees and for customers and friends. Read more…

On November 10th, Emterra Environmental received recognition from the Synergy Sustainability Institute for our leadership and commitment to improving the well-being of the environment and communities on Vancouver Island, BC. Read more…

Emterra Group made a commitment to cleaner air and a less noisy environment starting with our decision three years ago to begin converting our collection fleet to cleaner-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel. Today more than one quarter of our fleet is CNG-powered and there’s more to come but the bigger impact we’re making is creating the opportunity for other fleet owners and operators to ‘go greener’ by providing them with access to our network of four public CNG fuelling stations. Read more…

For more than 300 kids in the Winnipeg area (Manitoba), the holiday season brought more than snow…it brought them a great set of “wheels” – their very own bicycles, thanks to a local organization called The Winnipeg Repair Education and Cycling Hub (WRENCH), a lot of volunteer mechanics and the folks from Emterra Environmental Winnipeg… all working together to make Cycle of Giving magic. Read more...

Residents in Chilliwack, BC show continued support for this popular bi-annual event which raises cash and food donations for the Salvation Army and provides shredding and recycling services free of charge. Read more…

We would like to welcome the Village of Chaplin and the Village of Denzil in Saskatchewan to the Emterra family! Emterra looks forward to providing both villages with top notch residential single stream recycling service in 2016 and beyond!