Starting on Jan. 1, the Capital Regional District will be banning kitchen scraps from all garbage pickup, which means most of the West Shore is going to have to arrange their own disposal of organic waste.
Residents of Langford, Colwood, Metchosin and Highlands are all currently responsible for paying for private garbage pickup. They will have to decide whether they want to compost their scraps in their yards, feed the garburator (an option strongly discouraged by the CRD) or pay their current contractors extra for roadside pickup.
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Determining what the best option is will vary between municipalities and households, however.
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The CRD officially announced its date for the kitchen scraps ban back on Oct. 8, but there hasnB次元官网网址檛 been a lot of community buzz around the decision, adds Young.
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Young says the CRD had already assured the City of Langford that it had started advertising the upcoming ban.
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View Royal residents can expect no change to their service, as the municipality already contracts with a private service provider to collect garbage and kitchen scraps.
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