Ponoka asks residents to help divert more waste from landfill with Green Cart composting
The Town of Ponoka is asking residents to help divert more waste from the landfill through the Town’s curbside Green Cart composting program.
The new Green Cart program, which was launched in Ponoka in January 2019, diverted 25 per cent of the community’s residential household waste from the landfill last year – a total of 733 tonnes.
“That’s an outstanding accomplishment that exceeded our expectations for the first year of this program and puts us closer to achieving the provincially-set goal of eventually diverting 80 per cent of our waste from the landfill,” says Dwayne Kwolick, Manager of Environmental Services for the Town of Ponoka, in a news release.
He points out Ponoka is currently diverting about 40 per cent of its total waste from the landfill through composting, recycling and other diverted materials management at the Town’s Waste Transfer Station.