The City of Brandon could extend its organic waste program to more residents this year. City administration has presented a plan for a pilot project that would make it possible for people living in multi-unit homes and apartments to use a new version of the service. Currently, only single-family homes and smaller multi-unit buildings have green-bin pickup.
âFor those multi-family units that want to compost â they canât, because they donât have an option readily available,â Lindsay Hargreaves, the cityâs environmental initiatives co-ordinator, told council. The proposed pilot program would run over the course of 12 weeks for 120 homes that would have to obtain electric food recyclers from the city.
Hargreaves said the recycler, which is about the size of a coffee maker, would quietly dry and grind food scraps over the course of four to eight hours and provide a product similar to sterilized soil. People in the currently unserviced homes would have to apply to be in the program and track the weight of their food scraps and the number of cycles they use per week, and then complete a survey, Hargreaves said.