You voted, and the new slogan of the Essex Windsor Solid Waste Authority's regional green bin program is "Food Waste is Too Good to Waste -- Green Bin It."
The authority said 1,100 residents voted in a campaign leading up to a slogan reveal event.
The green bin program for kitchen scraps will start in the fall of next year.
A curbside audit conducted last year revealed that 48.5 per cent of garbage put on the curb by residents is food waste.
"Launching this program next year will help this region in a tremendous way to reduce the amount of garbage and waste at the curb, and will really make strides in helping us divert residential food waste and ultimately preserve one of the region's greatest assets - our Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill," said General Manager Michelle Bishop. "The Green Bin Program is really one of the best examples of that recycling loop -- where food waste will be turned into fertilizer, go back into the ground to therefore create more food for the region."
While it develops a communications strategy for the new program, the authority is also finalizing the operational side.
Initial costs for providing curbside pickup for organic waste are $2-3 per week, not including processing fees, green bin costs, and other fees supplementary to the green bin program.
