RESIDENTS in the City of North Vancouver's single family home areas will soon be able to put their food waste out for pickup alongside their recycling.
Residents will receive a "Green Can" sticker to apply to their existing 77-litre yard trimmings container. Food waste and yard trimmings can be combined in the same container.
The program will accept vegetables, meat, fish, bones, dairy products and baked goods, as well as used paper towels and paper plates. All of this waste will find its way to the Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre composting facility.
City staff hope to see the program up and running by May 1 of this year.
Food-scrap pickup is a goal of both a region-wide effort to reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfills, and of the city's ongoing work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"I think staff have been very progressive in this regard," Mayor Darrell Mussatto said. "I look forward to getting my new green sticky that goes next to my yellow stickie which goes next to my other garbage can, and I hope the other garbage can has as little as possible in it."
