Green BinProgramYour new food waste curbside collection service.

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For more information:www.scrd.ca/curbside-food

Frequently Asked Questions

Starting Fall 2020, all residences within the SCRD service area receiving garbage collection will participate in the food waste curbside collection program.

Who can participate in the food waste curbside collection program?

What about wildlife?

Yes. Under the SCRD’s refuse collection bylaw the separation of food waste from garbage is required by all residences in the service area.

Is participation in the food waste curbside collection program mandatory?

Please continue to use your home composter! If you have food items or food soiled papers that you are not currently backyard composting, then place these in your Green Bin.

What if I backyard compost?

Any container will do! Collect food waste and food soiled paper waste in a kitchen container of your choice before emptying it into your Green Bin. “Kitchen catchers” are available at many local retailers and online. Find one that suits your fancy!

What can I use to collect food waste in my kitchen?

Just like your garbage can, clean your Green Bin regularly and keep indoors until the morning of your collection day and take it indoors after pick up as soon as possible. For other tips, visit www.scrd.ca/curbside-food and www.wildsafebc.com/live.

For more Frequently Asked Questions:www.scrd.ca/curbside-food

Starting Fall 2020!

This fall, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) will be introducing a new weekly food waste curbside collection service. We will provide home owners with curbside collection containers (“Green Bin”) and instructions on how to use them. All you will need to do is empty any food waste you have, such as plate scrapings, peelings, coffee grounds and paper towels into a kitchen container of your choice and then empty into your new Green Bin and put the Green Bin out for collection on your collection day. To keep your bin clean, wrap food waste in newspaper or use paper bags. The moisture in the food waste will be absorbed by the paper, helping to eliminate odours.

Green Bin Program: your new food waste curbside collection service What can go in the Green Bin?

You can also include cut flowers, flower bunches and house plant cuttings.

The new service will begin the first full week of October with the first collection day on October 6. Food waste will be collected every week. Your garbage will be collected with your Green Bin the first week of service, then it will be collected every other week.

Start of the service

What we will provide

Starter kit: paper kitchen container bags (optional use)

A 45 litre food Green Bin which we will empty weekly

Please do not put any of these materials in your Green Bin:

dairy bread and pastriesfood waste

All uneaten food and plate scrapings

Dairy products Cheese Eggs/Shells

Bread Cakes Pastries

fruit and vegetables

meat and bones

tea & coffee grounds

Raw meat Cooked meat Bones

Paper tea bags, tea leaves

Coffee grounds

Coffee filters

Raw vegetables

Cooked vegetables Whole fruit Peelings

fish

Fish Cooked fish Bones Soft shells from lobster, crab or shrimp

Rice Pasta Beans

rice, pasta and beans

By using your Green Bin you will help cut down the amount of food waste that ends up in our landfill. Food waste that is sent to the landfill takes up valuable space. While it rots in the landfill, it releases methane gas — a harmful greenhouse gas. Food waste collected from the Green Bin program wil be processed locally by Salish Soils into compost, a beneficial resource.

On your collection day, please put your Green Bin out by 8:00 a.m.

If you don’t receive a Green Bin by September 30, 2020, please contact the SCRD at: infrastructure@scrd.ca or 604-885-6806.

Find your collection schedule with the SCRD Collects App and sign up for reminders and service

notifications!

Paper towels, plates, napkins

Food soiled cardboard, newspaper

food soiled paper

40.6 cm

68.5

cm

47 cm

www.scrd.ca/curbside-food

Garbage

Liquids of any kind

Dryer lint, vacuum contents, hair, pet waste

Elastics, staples, twist ties or produce stickers

Plastics of any kind, including compostable or biodegradable

Hard shells from clams or oysters

Yard or garden green waste

Items will be delivered approximately two weeks prior to the start of the service. Please look inside the Green Bin for the materials.