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Lafarge planning to open contaminated-soil processing facility in Burnaby

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Lafarge Canada is planning to open a soil-washing facility in Burnaby this summer .

The company is the largest supplier of aggregates and cement in B.C. The facility will also process so-called bottom ash, a waste product from Metro Vancouver's incinerator plant.

The bottom ash will be used at Lafarge’s Richmond cement plant.

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