by Vance Gutzman
Individual households can help their municipalities divert waste from landfills, and municipalities can help those households accomplish that feat.
That was the message delivered to Laurentian Hills council last week by an Ottawa-based company which is promoting a “FoodCycler” organic diversion pilot project.
Ami Gagne, project co-ordinator with Municipal Solutions, appeared virtually before council to plug the benefits of the FoodCycler device, which is the size of a small household appliance.
Small, rural and remote municipalities, Gagne pointed out, are pressed with the need to divert food waste from landfill sites, to keep them from filling up.
“Wasted food has consequences,” Gagne said, noting it accounts for five percent of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions.
“It’s a major contributor to why our landfills are filling up so quickly”….
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