Calgary disposal answer
Food scraps: green cart
Green cart — Compost
Put all food scraps in your green cart, whether raw, cooked, spoiled or mouldy, including peels, pits, plate scrapings and leftovers. Remove all packaging first.
How to prepare it
- Peel produce stickers off fruit and vegetables and put them in the black cart.
- Line your kitchen pail with a certified compostable bag, a paper bag or three to four sheets of folded newspaper.
- Add food-soiled paper towels, napkins and greasy pizza boxes to the green cart; clean paper goes in the blue cart.
- Scrape plates into the pail rather than the sink, toilet or garbage disposal, since food fats build up in sewer pipes.
Good to know
Plastic bags of any kind, including those labelled biodegradable, are not accepted, and neither are compostable plastic containers, cutlery or coffee pods, which go in the black cart. If your green cart is full, the City suggests a paper yard waste bag for the overflow.
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