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July 2015
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Metro Vancouver to impose
fines on food waste July 1
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Metro Vancouver has developed
this two minute video to explain the
introduction of the new food scraps recycling rules. Available in English, French,
Japanese, Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog and
Korean.
The grace period is almost over for
people and businesses in Metro Vancouver
who continue to put food scraps in the
garbage.
July 1 is when fines will be levied for
improperly disposed-of food waste.
The policy actually went into effect in
January, but Metro Vancouver wanted to
give folks and companies time to put new
garbage systems in place.
Andrew Marr, Director of Solid Waste
Programming, says they will be keeping
track of how much food is winding up in
normal garbage loads.
“We will start putting surcharges on
loads of waste when they come to our
disposal sites. If a load has more than 25
per cent food waste by volume then it will
be surcharged,” he explains.
The surcharge will be an additional 50
per cent of the cost of the disposal. For
example, a $100 load will cost $150 with
the additional surcharge.
Garbage companies will be paying
the fine up front, since they are the ones
depositing the waste. But Marr says those
companies can figure out where the food
has come from and pass on that extra
expense.
“Some haulers have said to us they
have a good idea of who the likely sources
of organic waste are. There is certain logic
to that. They know which businesses on
their route produce food waste.”
Those likely sources are restaurants
and grocery stores.
Whether the food waste ratio will be
MAGBABAGO ANG PARAAN NG ATING
PAMAMAHALA SA BASURA
Sama-sama nating ihiwalay ang mga tiráng pagkain sa ating
basura. Ang paraan ng ating pamamahala sa basura ay
magbabago. Simula sa 2015 kailangan mong ihiwalay ang mga
tiráng pagkain mula sa karaniwang basura.
Ang Metro Vancouver ay naglabas ng
panuntunang ito nang sa gayon ang mga
organikong bagay (pangunahín ang mga
tiráng pagkain) ay dapat nakahiwalay sa
mga karaniwang basura, at kukolektahin
p a r a s a b i o f u e l (o o r g a n i ko n g
pagkukunan ng enerhiya). Ang mga
pwedeng kainin na nakakalusog na
pagkain ay maaaring isaalang-alang
para sa donasyon.
Karaniwang mga bagay na
compostable (o maaring pangpataba ng
lupa o ng halaman) ay kinabibilangan ng:
• Gulay at prutas
• Hilaw na pagkain, mga tiráng
pagkain
• Naka-package na pagkain (alisin
sa package)
• Karne, isda, mga buto at mga
tightened from 25 per cent of a load, down
to say 10 per cent, over the next few years
has yet to be decided.
Marr says casual inspections of
garbage loads over the last six months
have revealed 99 per cent of garbage loads
had acceptable levels of food waste.
He points out zero-food-waste policies
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pinagbalatan (shells) ng pagkaingdagat o seafood
Pasta, tinapay at kanin
Pro duk to ng mula s a g at a s,
eggshells, mga sawsawan (sauce)
at mga sarsa
Papel na karton ng itlog
Paper towels, unlined na mga
paper cup/plato
Mamantikang napkins at mga
kahon ng pizza/ mga pahayagan
Kraft paper/mga supot na papel na
ginagamit upang kolektahin ang
mga tiráng pagkain
Waxed na mga kahóng karton
Sapal ng kape/filters at tea ccbags
Mga kagamitan tulad ng chopsticks,
stir sticks and toothpicks.
are in effect in many places in the world
such as Halifax, whose ban is already 17
years old.
As for when we’ll see food waste bins in
schools, community centers, churches and
other public facilities, Marr says it’s only
a matter of time before the