Composting your home kitchen waste is the next step
Many muncipalities in Canada and abroad are wrestling with composting collection for residents. Commercial servies have already sprung up in a variety of regions and should service the ICI sector well. Residential collection is expensive and some residents certainly are resisting collecting and disposing of their compostables seperately.
I am not sure why all the resistance? I have been composting at home for 20 years and it is an easy and actually quiet a fun process to participate in. Watching the compost (over time) become a nutrient and quality soil aditive is actually quite therapeutic. I only wish it went a bit faster. Here in the northern hemisphere it does take a little longer to start breaking down and becoming soil.
Two tips from my home compost system – add some moisture during the dryer season and don’t forget to turn it from time to time. These two things definately speed it up and make it usable in your garden faster.
Recently we moved to a suburban setting where our neighbors have chickens. Well these creatures have eliminated whatever remained in my garbage bin (like left overs and cooked foods)! They will eat anything, a little bit of old soup and some oatmeal porridge leftover for the day – well that is like a gourmet delight to them! They are not to eat any meat or fish.
So with a little help from my home composter and the chickens next door, we don’t have any organic waste going into our garbage bin!
Olympics transportation update
It is day 12 of the games – what a journey for us all! Vancouver is showing off so well, and I think we are all so proud!
Road closures and restricted access to Olympics zones have turned out to be managable for our Operations Department. We were certainly braced for the worst and it seems that our plan of getting downtown every morning early has worked. Drivers are leaving for the downtown core at about 4:00 AM and start servicing downtown clients from 5:00 AM onwards. Our Operations Department refers to it as “full court press”.
Office recycling or shredding clients of course cannot be serviced at this hour, so instead of starting earlier Urban Impact is sending down two or three trucks (where we would usually send one) to provide services. So far so good, any clients whose offices are open during the Olympics are getting their regular services.
The next time the Olympics to Vancouver we will be prepared!
Olympics transportation logistics is proving to be a challenge
The Olympics are practically here! Road closures are in affect and are ramping up over the next few days.
Urban Impact has been calling clients and suppliers in the affected areas to inquire about their operating hours, access issues, passes required and any other special considerations. Although this is a bit of a generalization it seems that most clients are not alternating their work schedules. It seems that most business are open as usual. This is actually a bit of a surprise to us, we were hoping that some businesses would consider opening earlier to accomodate suppliers like Urban Impact. Servicing our clients during the peak Olympics period is certainly going to be an issue. We are allowed in the RED ZONES early (5:00 AM) but if no one is open – it is not really going to help us.
Our contignecy planning is kicking into gear. Likely our course of action will be to deploy several trucks at a time into an area and sweep it as quickly as we can. If we succeed with this strategy we should be able to move into the affected areas, pick up quickly and efficiently as possible and then move out to the next area.
Wish us luck!
Urban Impact Shred Day Wed Feb 3, 2010 to benefit Red Cross – Haiti
Urban Impact is pleased to announce that all funds generated through our Shred Day scheduled for Wednesday February 3, 2010 will be donated to Red Cross – Haiti relief.
Shred Day begins at 2:00 PM at 15360 Knox Way Plant (follow the signs once you get to River Road). Please drop off your documents for shredding (right before your eyes) and support a worthy cause.
Green Thoughts Poll
2010 Greening Commitments continued
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