又环保又省钱的 Ottawa Green Bin 计划

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Starting in September through to December 2009, green bins will be delivered to homes across the city. It’s the first step in launching Ottawa’s organic recycling program which takes your food scraps and other organic waste and transforms it into compost.

The second step is green bin collection – when you actually get to use your bin to collect and set out your household organic waste. Collection will start in January 2010, so check your collection calendar for your pick up dates.

Why?

Almost half of the residential waste Ottawa produces is made up of organics—things like food scraps, soiled paper or leaf and yard waste. But organic waste isn’t garbage—it’s a valuable resource. The City of Ottawa is asking residents to RETHINK garbage by participating in the Green Bin program.
With your green bin, you can make a real difference to the City and the environment. This new program can help:

• Extend the life of existing landfills by diverting almost half of the City’s waste to the composting program.
• Save taxpayers money. By extending the life of our landfills, we can delay sourcing and setting up new landfills – a very expensive proposition.
• Reduce the amount of greenhouse gases our landfills generate by removing organic waste.
• Turn waste into a usable product (compost) that enriches the earth instead of damaging it.

Green Bin Ottawa will help us feed the land, and not the landfill.

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