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Do-It-Your-Self Plan For A Rolling Compost Bin!
In less than 3 months until every condo tower
and apartment building in the Lower Mainland has to have a way for residents to
separate their food waste from regular garbage.
That is going to be tough for the nearly one million residents
of those buildings, the region's enthusiastic recyclers admit as they get ready
for the ban on organics in Metro Vancouver Island fills in 2015.
Recycling rates for relatively easy things such as cans
and bottles in multifamily buildings are about a third of what they are in houses
or duplexes - 1s per cent compared with 44. Recycling messy food scraps is likely
to be even more challenging because of the need to squeeze yet another bin into
close-packed buildings, people's fears about attracting rats and some general apathy. But city engineers,
mayors, advocates and even condo residents say they are going all-out to do what
they can.
"It's going to take some time. We know there's
going to be some really significant challenges," said Vancouver's
solid-waste director, Albert Shamess.
The city has 5,800 multifamily buildings whose strata
councils or managers will need to work out where to fit green bins, how to get
residents to participate and how to make sure their private waste hauler is ready
to pick it up.
A few older buildings in the region
will be exempted because it is physically too difficult to separate food waste.
But most will be affected by the ban, which could bring higher fees for their waste
haulage if too much food ends up in their regular garbage.
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