Get Ready for the Clean Bin Project

Waste is a Weighty Issue

The average Cranbrook-area resident produces more than six pounds of garbage every day - that’s more than one tonne per year! Packaging makes up 33 per cent of what we all throw away. Composting can reduce everyday waste by fifty per cent. And if you want to save a tree? Recycle 120lbs of newspaper!

With big numbers like that, reducing our waste is not so hard. Skye McDougall, coodinator for Cranbrook's upcoming Clean Bin project said if residents were aware of the simple things we all can do to help reduce what ends up in landfill, our efforts would make a big impact. “With the three Rs and one C - that’s composting” said McDougall, “we can make huge reductions in our garbage production.”

“As a consumer myself, I know that we all create a lot of garbage,” said McDougall. “The excess packaging used for most products means that tons and tons of garbage ends up in our landfill.”

Wildsight will be showing the film on April 11 at 7:30pm in the COTR lecture theatre to kick of the project.