Every building in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce now has access to the municipal food waste collection, but that doesn’t mean you can’t compost your food waste at home! Composting at home reduces the fuel burned transporting your food waste to the city’s composting sites and provides you with an excellent fertiliser.
Composting at home
There are a few options, some can even be done inside a small space like an apartment. If you have space available on your property, you can create a basic compost pile or purchase (or build!) a compost bin or box. Pre-built compost bins/boxes are available at most hardware stores. You can also do vermicomposting indoors. For the more adventurous, Bokashi composting is an option as well (here is a good book on the subject).
Community composting
Since all residents of the borough now have access to the municipal food waste pickup with brown bins, our community compost sites have now all been closed. Before the implementation of the pickup throughout the borough, we managed community composting sites offering the opportunity for residents in larger apartment buildings to compost collectively in a community composting site.
