Waste Strategies

• Winter 2021: See the Resident's Survey Feedback Report and the Building Owner/Manager Survey Feedback Report for the Apartment/Condo Food Waste Diversion engagement, which ran from Jan. 18 to Feb. 8. Please note the survey for building owners/managers had previously run in November 2020 and was reopened to accept further input during this period.
• View the feedback report from the 2019 Waste Strategies engagement.

The City is seeking input on the implementation of new waste strategies to reach the goal of diverting 65 per cent of household waste from landfill by 2025. The City has been stuck at 60 per cent waste-diversion level and new service levels, policies or programs are needed to reach 65 per cent.

Curbside audits show that as much as 50 per cent of what is in the average garbage bag is compostable (35 per cent) or recyclable (15 per cent) material that can be captured in the City’s voluntary blue/grey recycling box and green bin programs. If all of these waste items were put in the right box or bin, Kingston would have a waste diversion rate of 76 per cent!

Diverting waste from landfill is good for the land, air, water and climate. Watch this video to learn about how waste reacts in a landfill.

Diverting waste also means capturing valuable resources out of the garbage sent to landfill that can be reused, recycled or composted.

For more details on this project and its background, see the City’s project page.