Delta's new food scrap recycling program begins next week.
The Green Can Program is being added to the municipality's curbside collection of yard waste for single-family homes.
Yard trimmings and food waste will be picked up every week starting Monday, April 16.
The Green Can Program allows residents to place all cooked and uncooked food waste, including fruit, vegetables, coffee grounds and filters, teabags, meat, fish, dairy and bread, along with food-soiled paper and yard trimmings, in a lidded container at the curb for collection.
Kitchen containers can be purchased from the Corporation of Delta for $3. They're available at municipal hall as well as at recreation centres throughout Delta.
People can also create their own kitchen containers to collect food before transferring it to their larger green cans.
Delta council has also approved a pilot project to collect food waste in a Green Bin Program for multi-family housing units. It will run from this July to December, but only for 200 multi-family units.
Delta's food waste pickup program resulted in a $10 per household increase in the solid waste portion of the annual utility bill.
For more information about the Green Can Program, check Delta's website at www.corp.delta. bc.ca.
