With the development of its curbside organics programme, the City of Lethbridge is continuing to become green.
On Thursday, representatives from the waste and recycling utility gave the civic works standing policy committee an update on phase one of the project.
In April and May of this year, 1,900 homes received a green cart as part of phase one.
The programme, according to the city, diverted 207,920 kg of organic garbage from black carts, with the new green carts taking in 30% of the total waste from phase one households.
And it looks that the majority of residents are correctly discarding their waste.
Only 2% of the green cart collection was contaminated, according to the analysis, with plastic bags being the most common offender.
Beginning this month, organics collections will be picked up every two weeks through the winter.
Next spring, phase two of the curbside organics programme will start, with green carts being distributed to all single-family houses in the city.
At the city’s garbage and recycling centre, a composting plant is more than 85% finished and is anticipated to open before the second phase.
In the third phase, which starts in the summer of 2023, multi-family homes will start getting their green carts.
Single-family homes will be required to pay $5 monthly and multi-family homes will be required to pay $4 monthly once citywide collection starts.
Over 200,000 kilogrammes of Lethbridge trash were diverted in the program’s first phase, according to a report.
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