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Sudbury's Vital Signs Report 2007

Environment

Greater Sudbury has been a national and international leader in environmental action. While this is a cause for celebration, the task is far from finished.

• According to a Transport Canada report, in 2001, GHGE from automobiles and trucks in Sudbury* amounted to 3.44 tonnes/capita. This is higher than for any of the 22 cities studied. The average was 2.39 tonnes/capita. 23 (See Figure 3)

Figure 3. Green House Gas Emissions (GHGE) due to trucks and cars
in kilotonnes per capita for selected cities in 2001

• In 2006, 95% of households in Greater Sudbury had access to one or more types of recycling programs and a utilization rate of 96%. In contrast, 87.3% of Canadian households had access to recycling programs and 94.3% used them. 24

• The City of Greater Sudbury has been steadily diverting and recycling larger volumes of solid waste between 2003 and 2005. The cost of recycling has gone down to $3.9 million in 2005 from $ 4 million in 2003. 25 (See Table 2)

Table 2. Greater Sudburysolid waste
diversion and recycling

	Amount Diverted/Recycled
Year	Tonnes	Costs $	% volume increase over previous year
2003	20,312	4,000,000	9.2%
2004	23,505	3,600,000	15.7%
2005	26,427	3.900,000	12.4%

• More than 8.6 million trees have been planted between 1979 and 2006 in Greater Sudbury. In 2005, 190,851 trees and shrubs were planted, down from an all-time high of 1.2 million planted in 2000. 26 (See Figure 4)

Figure 4. Total trees planted 1979-2006

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