If you live in a selected household in Riley Park or Sunset, we would like you to put all food scraps into your yard trimmings cart instead of your regular garbage cart. Your yard trimmings cart will be picked up once a week and the contents will be recycled into high-quality compost and soil.

We will continue with the weekly collection of food and green waste and bi-weekly collection of garbage until further notice. Please follow the collection schedule sent to your home in February.

The city-wide rollout of the food scraps program will be considered by Council in the coming months.

This is part of an important pilot program to reduce waste and help Vancouver become the greenest city in the world by 2020.

What can I put in my yard trimmings cart?

Pilot households will be able to put all raw and cooked food into their yard trimmings cart:

• Fruit and vegetables
• Tea bags, coffee grounds and filters
• Meat, fish and bones
• Noodles, rice, beans, grains or bread
• Dairy products, including cheese and yogurt
• Eggshells
• Food-soiled paper products like napkins and pizza boxes, or newspaper used to wrap your scraps and line your container

What shouldn't I put in my yard trimmings cart?

• Plastic bags including grocery, sandwich and compostable
• Cartons or plastic and styrofoam containers
• Oil, grease or chemicals
• Coffee cups
• Diapers or wipes
• Animal waste or cat litter
• Rocks
• Non-paper plates and cutlery

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