‘On-Site Composting’ for Multi-Family, Businesses and Institutions
Vertal’s new CityPod installed at the UBC Student Union Building.
Metro Vancouver Ban on Food Scraps in Garbage
Starting January 1, 2015, both the City of Vancouver and Metro Vancouver regional district will ban food scraps from disposal as garbage.
That means all food scraps – raw and cooked food, plate scrapings, leftovers, expired food, meat, bones, and dairy products – need to be recycled.
Some residential multi-family buildings use rodent-resistant compost bins on their roofs to take care of a portion of their food waste. Other residential buildings use similar bins placed at ground level in open landscaped areas. These setups require commitment from both residents and the building management.
A few businesses are using mechanical composting technologies to take care of a large amount of their food waste.
A good first step in investigating on-site composting at your building is to contact City Farmer’s Compost Hotline at 604-736-2250.
Below are a few examples of the systems used locally.
Earth Tubs
Made by Green Mountain
3 Vancouver Schools have Earth Tubs.
David Thompson Secondary
Windermere Community School
Grandview Elementary
Gibsons Recycling has a larger composter made by Green Mountain.
Green Good
Green Good makes electric composters in a number of sizes.
Contact in Vancouver is Recycling Alternatives
Representative: Robert Weatherbe
Telephone +1 604-874-7283
Above is a Green Good composter taking food from Bishops Restaurant in 2010 at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden.
Trafalgars Bistro and Sweet Obsession owners Stephen Greenham and Lorne Tyczenski show off their the GreenGood GG-50. Trafalgars Bistro restaurant
Hungry Bins
Just introduced into Vancouver, these worm bins are used in large facilities in New Zealand
Greentools and Hungry Bin
Vancouver contact is Scot Bathgate
1-888-886-7721
Wormworx Organics Recycling uses a number of these bins at their business.
Jora
Thompson River University in Kamloops
The campus has a large JORA 5100 in-vessel seen above.
A report by Allysha Sorba about the composter at Thompson River is titled: Composting for a Greener Campus
University contact is: James Gordon at
jgordon@tru.ca
See Jora Canada
BC Dealer is Russ Chambers at rcedservices@gmail.com
Jora also sells rotating drum composters in different sizes. The photo above shows two Jora 400’s working at the Strathcona Business Improvement Assoc.(BIA) in Vancouver
The BIA have four Jora rotating bins in total. See details and photos of BIA project here.
Rocket
The Rocket is being tested in a multi-family building in Port Coquitlam.
See: The Rocket – Multi-Family, On-Site Composting at Malaspina Village, Coquitlam
Vertal
The University of BC Student Union Building has the first Vertal CityPod composter in Canada which will compost food waste from campus kitchens.
Contact: Aeron Jensan
CITYPOD sales – British Columbia at Vertal Inc.
aeronjensan@hotmail.com
604 783-1221
Rodent Resistant Bins
These sturdy bins can be used in multiples. They operate the same way a backyard bin work; leaves and food scraps layered. (No meat, fish, etc.)
3-bin composter made from wood and lined with wire mesh made by Rand French.
Cedar Creek Enterprises
info@cedarcreekenterprises.com
778-838-1094
The Speedibin is all metal.
Toll Free 1-888-701-2303
Some rooftop gardens use these type of bins.
A co-op roof in the Olympic Village.
Link to larger photo here.
The rooftop garden at the YWCA. Note in larger photo the three bin system. Photo by Michael Levenston.
