Smithrite has a compost pickup service for restaurants and cafes. The cheapest way, of course, is for staff and customers to take the coffee grounds home themselves and garden like mad. If you want to compost paper towels though, you need a service.

There should be more online info about keeping your worms happy, because so many vancouverites live in apartments and are not sure of how to be successful in worm composting.

I moved to Vancouver from Toronto a year ago. It would be nice if we had a compost program here but I also understand that it is easy to demand things from your city when you dont really understand how much planning and infrastructure goes into them. Sure we pay enough tax and the city counsel gets salaries to make living in the city better. The article brought up good pros and cons to implementing the program sooner. Things should be done right the first time. Now that Metro Vancouver saw how to effectively eliminate smell, the other important factor is public education. The population has to buy into the program, otherwise it will not be as successful. What I would like to do is encourage Metro Vancouver to start developing the strategy. Does any one have an idea on how to best do that? Should I just use an email from their website? Usually I just sign a petition that someone has already put in place but I would like to start being more proactive in my community.
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Nice one. Has the emotional tenor of a country song. I can almost hear the slide guitar.

John Bucher
Editor, Granville Online

Although there appears to be a need for compost to be picked up from businesses and very densely populated areas, I think educating the public to PERSONALLY compost their individual organic waste should continute to be lauded. If a household can collect a weeks worth of organic waste in a container, waiting for a truck to come and pick it up, that household already has the resources to deal with that waste at home. Throw in a couple of handfulls of worms, get a black plastic beehive type covered compost bin, or one of those rolling ones from Lee Valley Tools. Its surprising how quickly organics break down, its mostly water anyhow.

I like it, I like it—playing with the sinking theme. Yeah, right: where is Volvo in the alt-vehicle sweepstakes?

John Bucher
Editor, Granville Online

Small or not, any car that can get me from Point A to Point B without spewing more crap into the air works for me. Now, if only George came with it ... *sigh* ... well, I can dream, can't I?