Overview
The food scraps and green waste collected by City Sanitation are recycled into valuable compost, so it’s important to ensure you do your part in reducing waste by only putting compostable materials in the strata green bins.
Our Organic Waste (Green) bins are locate in the Visitor Parkade across from the Mail/Recycle room by the Cardboard dumpsters.
Accepted food scraps
Did you know that food scraps can total up to 40 percent of the household waste collected by the City? By adding them to your green bin we can keep them out of the landfill and turn them into valuable compost. To keep this process smooth and avoid contamination, it’s important to know what’s accepted and what’s not.
- fruit and vegetable scraps
- meat and bones
- eggs and dairy products
- coffee grounds and tea bags
- fish and seafood
- plate scrapings
- salad and dressings
- sawdust (bagged in paper bags)
- pumpkins
- bread, pasta and grains
- soiled pizza boxes and paper napkins
- small amounts of cooking oil absorbed in paper
- recyclable containers
- liquids of any kind
- diapers and hygiene products
- tissues
- plastic bags
- compostable or biodegradable plastic bags (Find out why.)
- plastic foam packaging (Styrofoam)
- plastic or biodegradable compostable cutlery
- large volumes of cooking oil
- pet waste such as cat litter and dog poop bags