Metro Vancouver organic food scrap ban to be phased in
Posted December 15, 2014 4:15 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – While Metro Vancouver’s new organic food scrap ban kicks in January 1st, most people will actually have until 2017 before it’s strictly enforced.
Starting in the new year large restaurants, hotels and supermarkets need to separate the scraps from their garbage but they’ll have a six-month grace period.
Andrew Marr with Metro Vancouver says it will be phased in for everyone else.
“Obviously the inspectors will start looking harder for smaller quantities of food scraps. So the quantity they’re looking for will go down in 2016 and then it’ll go down again in 2017.”
It will be up to the people bringing in the loads to make sure they are clean, or they’ll be fined.
“We have people who randomly inspect loads of garbage when they’re arriving at our facilities and so they just do a visual inspection. It’s a very simple thing, they don’t open bags or anything like that. So they’re just looking really for large obvious quantities of food scraps.”
Metro Vancouver feels the phase approach will help to resolve any initial issues.
