Seeking Information on City-Wide Food Composting

Check with the Halifax Regional Municipality ( City of Halifax), Nova Scotia, Canada. They have a program you can review http://www.halifax.ca/wrms/newresidents.html

Kelly Heisz

Executive Director St. John's Clean and Beautiful
70 O'Leary Ave ( FPI Building )
P.O.Box 13764, Stn A
St. John's, NL Canada A1B 4G3
709-570-0350
709-570-0479
fax [email protected]
www.cleanandbeautiful.nf.ca

Hi Lucille

Germany has a country-wide food recycling program. I googled "food recycling Germany" and got several links, the first of which is this one (in English): http://www.howtogermany.com/pages/recycling.html which has a good overview and several links from it.

Amanda

Seattle accepts food waste. Check http://www.seattle.gov/util/Services/Yard/Yard_Waste_Collection/Acceptab leYardFoodWaste/index.htm for more info.

Regards,
Caroline Jackson

Community Programs Coordinator
North Shore Recycling Program
148 East 2nd Street
North Vancouver, BC V7J 1Z6
t: 604.984.9730
f: 604.984.3563
e: [email protected]
www.nsrp.bc.ca
www.gardensmart.ca

The City of Burnside in Adelaide, South Australia conducted a food waste collection & composting trial (however this was one local government area, not across a whole city). www.burnside.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/media_release_web_version ..pdf www.burnside.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1091 www.burnside.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Bio_Basket_Trial_Outcomes ..pdf www.burnside.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/Burnside_Bio_Basket_Q_A_s _final.pdf

Cheers,
Sharon Ede
Zero Waste SA

Im not sure where you are from, But it is an initiative that is continuing to spread like a wildfire through Ontario, Canada right now! Guelph, ontario was one of the firsts i believe, followed by most others. The small rural town im from, Georgina is getting ready to intraduce the program as well.

Best of luck to you!
Maeda Welch

Pesticide and Litter Reduction Strategy
Town of Georgina
(905)722-5702
[email protected]

Another place to check into is Portland, Oregon. Their Office of Sustainable Development sponsors the program "Portland Composts!" http://www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?c=ebhig

Theresa Cross, MS RD CD

Health Educator
Tobacco Prevention and Education Program
Clark County Public Health
1601 E. Fourth Plain Blvd.
Vancouver WA 98661
Mailing Address: PO Box 9825
Vancouver WA 98666-8825
360/397-8000 ext. 7378

Hi Lucille,

The Town of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island is starting a collection program for food scraps in February. www.ladysmith.ca/ www.ladysmith.ca/garbagerecycle.html www.ladysmith.ca/pdf/OrganicWaste.pdf In addition, the District of Mission has operated a program for the collection of food scraps for a number of years. www.city.mission.bc.ca Lastly, here is a link for an organics recovery study commissioned by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary in BC. www.rdkb.com/siteengine/activepage.asp?PageID=242&SearchText=composting

Best,
Andrea Procyk
Special Projects Officer
Recycling Council of BC

Lismore City in New South Wales, Australia (population about 40,000) deals with all its putrescibles and other green waste, including that of the hinterland in a 100 km radius around, by putting it through a huge worm farm. The worm castes are fortified with trace elements which are short in their landcsape and these are then sold to the surrounding farms as agricultural fertiliser, closing the nutrition loop from farm to mouth and back to farm again. Wellington City (capital of New Zealand), combines sewerage with the green waste stream in a controlled composting system which generates compost that meets organic certification standards and is sold all over the country.

Regards,
Bryan

All food waste on Prince Edward Island has been source separated and composted since 2002. This includes residential, and ICI food waste. This is a mandatory source separation program using vented plastic carts. You can find out more at www.iwmc.pe.ca

Don Jardine

Director of Pollution Prevention
PEI Dept. of Environment , Energy and Forestry
PO Box 2000, 11 Kent St.
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada C1A 7N8
Phone: 902-368-5035
Fax : 902-368-5830
Email: [email protected]

Check out this (old) article about Province-wide composting (especially for Halifax): http://www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2000/030053.html

Cheers,
Jim Zack

Sustainable Saratoga Springs (NY)
www.relocalize.net/groups/saratoga

The City of Pleasanton, California has had a food-scrap recycling program for the last few years. Each resident is given a plastic pail to keep in the kitchen and gather food scraps. The pail is then emptied into their Yard Waste cart and collected along with the grass clippings, etc. each week. To find out more check out www.pleasantongarbageservice.com