Highlights:
- Vancouver's Integrated Solid Waste and Resource Management Plan calls for hard ban of organic waste starting in 2015
- A recently published 2011 study reveled that 47% of all waste in Vancouver remains organic. This was down only slightly from 49% in the previous year.
- For the study, organics included compostable materials including food waste, yard trimmings, and clean wood from the construction industry
From the article:
The results of a study into waste in Metro Vancouver in 2011 have been published, confirming that discarded food accounts for the largest percentage of the region's municipal waste 2015 organics disposal ban looms.
The study, published by Metro Vancouver - a political body which comprises 22 municipalities, one electoral area, and one treaty First Nation - discarded food makes up some 39% of waste from single family homes and an even larger 39% from multi-family households.
Waste from commercial businesses - a category that includes supermarkets and restaurants - contained 21% wasted food, according to the study.
Metro Vancouver said that the regional district's 2011 Waste Composition Study was a "garbage audit" of what's inside the region's waste.
