The District of Tumbler Ridge has brought in 200 FoodCyclers as part of a pilot program to support food waste management in the community.
The FoodCycler is a device that grinds and dries out food waste—from vegetable peels to chicken bones—and turns it into a biomass product that can be used as a soil additive or, if compressed, as pellets for home heating. According to Jacob Hanlon, who coordinates the Municipal Program for FoodCycle Science, and who presented to council at the April 3 council meeting, five litres of food waste becomes 200 g of this nutrient rich product.
They have 130 registrants participating in the 12-week program which will run until September and residents were offered a large discount on the cost of purchasing the
Learn more about the program at the following links:
