Can we use a garburator?
Collecting food waste and diverting food waste to a licensed composting facility is more cost effective and environmentally sound than using a garburator. Food waste disposed of in garburators uses valuable resources such as water and electricity and puts an added load on sewage treatment facilities where it must be processed at a higher cost than recycling. Waste from garburators, which ends up in sewage treatment facilities, can clog filters, increase requirements for more chemical processing and decrease the quality of effluent that is eventually discharged into the Strait of Georgia. When you divert food waste instead of using a garburator, organic materials become a valuable resource that will be turned into a useful saleable product-compost, rather than becoming waste that requires greater cost and energy to dispose of. Garburators are not a solution to the commercial organics ban. A business using garbarators for food waste disposal will be non-compliant within another set of re
