{"id":1601,"date":"2008-10-23T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/10\/23\/garbage-week-in-quebec\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:43:09","slug":"garbage-week-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/23\/garbage-week-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage week in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24923563@N02\/2963451750\/\" title=\"Trash alley by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3180\/2963451750_f10c4e016f.jpg\" alt=\"Trash alley\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh boy! Not only is it garbage day on my street, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqrd.org\/\">garbage reduction week<\/a> all across Quebec from October 19-26th! Lets celebrate with some exciting trash statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2006 (the <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=916,17001572&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\">most recent available data<\/a>), the average Montrealer produced about half a tonne &#8211; or to be precise 541 kg &#8211; of waste.<\/li>\n<li>78% of this ended up in off-island dumps &#8211; with the greatest amount going to the Lachenaie landfill. The other 22% was diverted to recycling plants, composting plants, or eco-centres.<\/li>\n<li>In 2006, 37% of recyclable materials actually made it to recycling facilities (up from 33% in 2002). According to recyc-Quebec, Montreal should reach the province-wide objective of 60% this year.<\/li>\n<li>Only 7% of organic wastes were composted. This figure includes an estimate of household composting, as well as municipal centres. I think the bulk of this is made up of Christmas trees, we well as some leaves and grass cuttings.<\/li>\n<li>41% of household hazardous wastes (batteries, paints, motor oil, and other nasty stuff like that) was disposed of in the city&#8217;s Eco-centres (up from 29% in 2002).<\/li>\n<li>Clunky stuff like old furniture, appliances, and computers can be brought to eco-centres or picked up by the city. About 35% were collected and recycled in some way (up from 20% in 2002).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"eMediumGrey10\">A new waste reduction <a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=916,18055962&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\">plan<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ville.montreal.qc.ca\/portal\/page?_pageid=916,18055962&amp;_dad=portal&amp;_schema=PORTAL\"> <\/a>released last month outlines how the city will reach targets for the next 4 years. We are only now beginning to strive towards the Province-wide target of composting 60% of organic waste. <\/span>This fall, all 19 boroughs put garden-waste composting in place. Three areas &#8211; <span class=\"eMediumGrey10\">C\u00f4te-Saint-Luc, Laval, Plateau-Mont-Royal &#8211; are experimenting with collecting kitchen compostables.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Toronto is ahead of Montreal in the garbage department, offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=1361\">household compost pickup<\/a>. And forget about squabbling over whether sorting trash should be enforced by law: The Torontonians I know quickly jumped on the trash sorting bandwagon when the garbage truck started to pass by only very second week &#8211; if only to prevent their homes from being overwhelmed by piles of recyclables and the stench of rotting kitchen scraps.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: dumptsers behind ste-catherine street buildings <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy! 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