National Capital Commission aims to reduce post-party waste in Ottawa
By Claire Brownell, The Ottawa Citizen
Rideau Street was awash with Canada Day 2010 revellers. A year earlier, slightly less than half of the waste left after Canada Day in 2009 could have been recycled or composted, but only about a fifth of the trash made it to blue and green bins instead of the garbage.
Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — After hiring people to dig through its own trash last year, the National Capital Commission concluded it could send a lot less to landfills after big events with a little extra effort.
According to audit results published in the NCC’s most recent environment report, about 92 per cent of the waste left behind after the Rideau Canal Skateway and Winterlude in 2010 could have been recycled or composted. But only a small amount actually was — about eight per cent at the Skateway and 22 per cent at Winterlude.
Slightly less than half of the waste left after Canada Day in 2009 could have been recycled or composted, but only about a fifth of the trash made it to blue and green bins instead of the garbage.
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