In the next two years all high rise units in Waterloo region will be required to separate their organic waste. The provincially mandated policy requires all municipalities to reduce the amount of waste that heads to a landfill site and while residential units have regular collection of green bins and blue boxes, it’s a different story for multi-residential units.
The Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) issued a policy statement in 2018 that directs “public and private sectors to prevent, reduce and divert food and organic waste.”
“The Policy Statement sets targets for medium to large municipalities, and larger businesses and institutions to reduce and divert up to 50 to 70 per cent of their food and organic waste by 2023 to 2025,” said an email statement from MECP.
“With regards to multi-residential buildings, the policy statement directs owners of multi-residential buildings to reduce and divert 50 per cent of their food and organic waste by 2025; this will apply to multi-residential buildings with six or more units in municipalities with populations of 5,000 or greater.”
To read the full story, visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/multi-residential-buildings-organic-waste-1.6696524.
Author: CBC News
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