On Wednesday, the City of Montreal’s executive committee adopted the Plante administration’s ambitious five-year plan to change the way the city manages garbage.“Everybody has a role to play,” said Laurence Lavigne-Lalonde, the executive committee member responsible for the ecological transition. The COVID-19 crisis may have forced the city to put its plans to fight climate change on the back burner for a little while, but for the Plante administration, reducing waste has never stopped being a top priority. “Climate change and zero waste are not just words. We are really putting those words in action. Even though we are fighting different crises, we still work on those objectives,” Lavigne-Lalonde explained.

The city said the new plan has been thoroughly studied since it was presented last year. Becoming a zero-waste city will not happen without a huge increase in composting. According to the city, only half a million households have access to composting right now. “What we know right now is that 55 percent of what we send to landfills can be composted, so this is the first thing,” said Lavigne-Lalonde.

Right now, buildings with nine units or more are not composting, except for in a handful of boroughs where a pilot project is underway. The city wants that to change in the coming months. They are planning a door-to-door information campaign to explain the benefits of composting, but that’s being delayed by the pandemic. “By 2025, every citizen of Montreal will be able to participate in the compost,” claimed Lavigne-Lalonde.

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Author: Dan Spector, Global News
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