Is using my green bin to recycle food waste better than using a garburator?
Yes, collecting food waste in your green bin 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, can increase requirements for more chemical processing and decrease the quality of effluent that is eventually discharged into the Strait of Georgia. When you collect food waste in your green bin instead of using a garburator, your household 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.
