Our innovative, pilot model DROP SPOT ran from August to Oct 22 . Public response to the DROP SPOT was enthusiastic to put it mildly, and The DROP SPOT became a hot spot of activity, engagement and conversation every Saturday during the West End Farmers Market. West End apartment and condo residents, hungry for food scraps diversion turned up in droves with bags, buckets and bowls of food scraps collected and kept out of the garbage each week.
West End residents with their ear to the ground on waste diversion, are responding enthusiastically to our Food Scraps Drop Spot pilot running July 30-Oct 15 at the West End Farmers Market.
The Drop Spot grew out of a partnership between Farmers Market and Recycling Alternative to piggy back food scraps collection for apartments on the existing traffic of Farmers Market shoppers who are heading to the market each Saturday to make local, sustainable choices about their food.
EcoRoamer, a 27,000 lb. diesel truck made out of recycled material visited the Vancouver Biodiesel Co-Op pump at Recycling Alternative’s Warehouse. They filled up with 100% Biodiesel on their way up to Alaska…and are eventually going to see the world! Thank guys!
Recycling Alternative and The Cultch have partnered up for the week of The You Show, May 10 – 14, 2011 to further reduce our waste stream to the landfill by striving for creating zero waste. Please help us by recycling everything you can both at The Cultch and at home!
Last week Metro held a series of its Dialogues for the Region focusing on ‘Accelerating Multi-Family Waste Diversion’ (i.e. apartments and condo’s).
A tall order indeed. Compared to the 55% diversion achieved from single family homes in the region, only 16% of waste from apartments and condominiums is getting recycled. Doing the math and looking at it from the other end of the tail pipe, the fact that 84% of waste from apartments and condo’s is going to landfill despite over 25 years of public education means we need to change our strategy dramatically in order to achieve Metro ‘s, 70% waste reduction targets by 2015. Continue reading…
