If you want your chance to contribute to a more sustainable Winnipeg, please check out our email campaign to encourage City Council to vote ‘YES’ to a city-wide compost collection. The vote is coming up and we need your help!
For the first time since 2016, our city council will vote on whether to approve a ‘green bin’ program for Winnipeg. City Council struck down the vote before, but this project is more critical than ever, as Manitoba’s landfill emissions have risen 3%.
You can show your support by joining our letter writing campaign and sending our pre-written letter to your councillor! Every voice matters and we encourage you to use yours!
Click this link to learn more about the importance of a compost collection system and to add your name:
Organics collection and composting is a key component of sustainable waste management and climate action.
- Organics waste left in landfills produces immense amounts of methane–a greenhouse gas (GHG) 28-36 times more potent than carbon dioxide
- Organics account for ~50% of Winnipeg household waste
- Organic waste-when composted–drastically reduces GHG emissions and becomes a useful and valuable resource
- Winnipeg is one of the only major cities in Canada without a full-scale food waste collection system
Our city council struck down this opportunity nearly seven years ago, but now times have changed, and this project is more critical than ever before.
- 2020 surveys found food waste collection support among 85% of Winnipeggers!
Please take a moment to show City Council your support for a city-wide composting program and a move towards climate action!
Yes to city composting. Greater benefits keeping it out of the landfill.
When will the vote take place?
Hi Minna, we aren’t too sure at the moment, but unfortunately it looks like the vote won’t be taking place before the fall. But that gives us more time to spread the word!
Yes to city wide compost program
Yes to compost collection, and make it by law as much as the recycle.
Absolutely yes to composting.