Body discovered at west-end paper recycling facility

Edmonton police homicide investigators are awaiting autopsy results after a body was found among the recyclables at a paper recycling facility Friday morning.

Based on the preliminary investigation, foul play is not considered a factor at this point, said police spokeswoman Leila Daoud.

Acting Insp. Jerry Nash said police were called by employees at Capital Paper Recycling at 14815 128th Ave. around 10 a.m. after they found what appeared to be a human body among material collected Thursday night.

The truck identified as having transported the body made 55 recycling bin pickups, Nash said.

“It does not immediately appear to be foul play, but as we do with any type of investigation of this sort, we notify homicide,” Nash said.

Nash said it was not yet known if the body is male or female.

The parking lot at the recycling depot — a west-end industrial building located beside railway tracks — was filled with five police cars and three police SUVs, including the forensics unit, on Friday.

Police officers and plainclothes investigators entered the building’s back entrance with notepads.

Nash said the owner of Capital Paper Recycling told him this was the third time a body has been found on site.

In June 2012, police said the death of a man found at the facility was not believed to be a homicide.

An autopsy on the 32-yearold man and early evidence showed nothing criminal in nature.