Tips for Storing Scraps at Home

  • Store in containers or paper bags
  • Keep in the fridge or freezer to reduce odours and fruit flies
  • Use old newspaper to line or layer your container
More Tips

The Food Scraps Drop Spot program is brought to you by:

This program is made possible by:

Funded By a Greenest City Neighbourhood Grant

To our Volunteers & Droppers,
Thank you for your support!

Winter Farmer’s Market

Thank you to all the droppers who came out to the Winter Farmer’s Market Drop Spot this season! From this one location we collected over 13,000 lbs of organics.

The Winter Market is closed for the season but we will be back soon with new locations;

Trout Lake Farmer’s Market - Saturdays
May 11 - October 19
- new location right in the market

Kitsilano Farmer’s Market - Sundays
May 12 - October 20

West End Farmer’s Market - Saturdays
June 1 - October 19

Mon, 29 Apr, 2013

The FoodScraps Drop Spot spring newsletter is out!

Fri, 8 Mar, 2013
Louise on CBC’s On the Coast

Louise was on CBC/Radio-Canada’s On the Coast September 11th to talk about Gregor Robertson’s announcement regarding the expansion of Residential Food Scraps Recycling.

Listen to the full interview here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/British+Columbia/On+The+Coast/ID/2278100724/

More info about the city program: http://www.mayorofvancouver.ca/foodscraps

Mon, 17 Sep, 2012