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Green Bin Program Expanded Across The City!
Will
play a key role in achieving the City's 60%
waste diversion target |
This fall, Toronto’s innovative Green Bin Program will
finally become a citywide initiative when it is rolled
out across the City’s North District, including the
former North York section of Ward 25.
If you are not currently receiving this service, the
Green Bin will become part of your weekly curbside
pick-up beginning October 24, 2005.
The Green Bin Program allows residents to separate their
organics (fruit and vegetables scraps, paper towels,
coffee grinds, etc.) from their regular garbage and
recycling, thus reducing the total amount of waste being
sent to the landfill. The contents of the green bin are
taken to a processing facility in Toronto where a
biological process using bacteria (anaerobic digestion)
converts it into solid organic material and subsequently
into compost, which can be used as a soil additive for
farm and/or parkland. This new ‘three stream’ collection
system involving source separation of organics will play
a key role in helping the City achieve its goal of
diverting 60% of its waste from landfill by 2006.
To promote the program in our community, I have arranged
to have a Green Bin information kiosk set-up at the Don
Mills Centre on September 22, 2005 between 2 p.m. and 4
p.m. at the Community Booth. Staff from the City of
Toronto Solid Waste Management Department will be
on-hand to provide information about the program and to
answer your questions.
If you need to replace or acquire an additional Green
Bin, call customer service at 416-338-2010. For more
information about the program, call my office or visit
the City’s website at
www.toronto.ca/greenbin.
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