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
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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!

Results for Week 2

For those of you who haven’t been to our drop spot, we would like to share with you now, on our blog, the results of Week 2! (Drum roll…)

142 households dropped off their food scraps in week 2, which amount to a whopping 695 lbs of food scraps being diverted from the landfill!

This also means that in the first two weeks of the Food Scraps Drop Spot, we have collected HALF A TONNE of food scraps! That’s a lot of corn husks and apple cores!

If you want to help us push that number even higher, start collecting your food scraps and bringing them down to the West End Farmers Market on Saturdays 9am to 2pm. You don’t have to be from West End - All is welcome!!!

And remember to tell your friends and neighbours about us! Imagine what we can all do together to meet the Zero Waste Challenge!

(p.s. If you want to know what the result for week 3 is, you have to come by the Drop Spot tomorrow to find out!!!)

And here is our 100th Dropper from week 2!!!

Fri, 2 Sep, 2011

If you have any questions about the Food Scraps Drop Spot Program, you can contact Recycling Alternative by email (info@recyclingalternative.com) or by phone (604.874.7283).