In the Borough of Ville-Marie, almost all buildings with eight units or less are collecting food waste. Your kitchen and table scraps will be turned into compost and renewable energy.

When these valuable materials end up in a landfill, they contribute to climate change. As food and organic wastebreaks down in an oxygen-deprived environment, it creates methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Sending food and organic waste to landfill is ultimately unsustainable.

Through the implementation of food waste collection the Borough wishes to reduce the volume of landfilled material.

Reducing food and organic waste preserves our natural resources. It also helps fight climate change.

You can contribute to it! To do this, valorize your food waste. There are several ways to value them.  Put your food waste to good use by putting them out for municipal collection, composting them at home or using a community composter.

These are among the most significant ways of preserving the environment.

Organic matter in landfill decomposes in the absence of oxygen (air) and the chemical action involved in this process releases methane, a foul-smelling gas that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a liquor (garbage juice) that pollutes soils and groundwater.

By making appropriate use of your brown bin, you allow food waste to be given new life.

This waste thus becomes a valuable product. They then become resources. It can be used to make compost or to generate biogas to be used as energy in the form of electricity. You will also be helping to reduce crowding in landfill sites. When you incorporate compost into soil (soil amendment), you increase its ability to retain water and to act as a buffer against erosion, in addition to adding fungal, microbial and bacterial life that benefit plants.

Winter brings with it a number of inconveniences, and these can extend to your brown bin.

Among the issues that can make it harder for you to manage your food waste are having to dig the bin out from under a blanket of the snow, or finding it frozen shut, or seeing your food waste frozen solid and impossible to remove from the bin.

Finally, if you are facing any such issues, we recommend that you read a blog article with helpful hints written by our 3RV project leader.

If you still have any difficulties, do not hesitate to contact us.

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