Green bins coming to Edmonton apartments and condos this fall

Separating your food scraps into green bins like this have become the norm for many edmontonians that live in houses but starting this fall thousands more will have the same task when green bins are introduced in apartments and condos across the city over the next four years the green bins

Program will be introduced one section of the city at a time starting in southeast Edmonton and eventually spreading to More Than 3 400 buildings so we’re going to ask them to put their food scraps in the pail the recyclables to sort separately and then in each building or in each property an

Apartment on the property there will be containers for all three streams green bins were first introduced in single-family homes in 2021 with this new phase City staff is purposely taking a slower approach with more than 170 000 units a shift this big will take time this isn’t an easy change for many

People but it is a possible change and so to be able the city of Edmonton is ready and we’re putting all the support and the resources that we can in place so that when residents have questions or when they’re not sure why something is being sorted in one stream or the other

Or even not sure why they should be sorting it why putting the extra effort we have these tools available to help them property manager Curtis saraki isn’t as confident and expects there will be some Growing Pains change is the most part especially in condo you know this is

Through experiences of just doing other tasks through Condominiums getting owners to buy in it’s going to be difficult it’s going to take a lot of notices a lot of communications um and a lot of time and energy he suspects many buildings will struggle from a lack of space for bins to

Shutting down garbage shoots and that will come with a cost and there’s added cost of snow removal maintenance in the summer there’s concerns of smell and and you know who’s going to put Liners in there this becomes a big cost to the condo Corps but officials say they are

Expecting some issues will pop up and they’re ready to adapt once the program rolls out in October Emily Fitzpatrick CBC News Edmonton

It’s been nearly three years since Edmonton’s green bin program was introduced in single-family homes across the city. Over the next four years, Edmontonians living in apartments, condos and rowhouses will be receiving green bins of their own to start separating their food scraps.

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