Vancouver received its ranking as the greenest city in Canada and the second greenest in North America (behind San Francisco).
Now it wants to work on improving the two categories it scored the worst in: waste and water.
Even though Vancouver did land in the top 10 in each of the nine categories, the city has set a goal of being the world’s greenest city by 2020.
And that means being the best all around.
The city’s new compost program will make a huge positive impact on reducing waste, said Andrea Reimer, lead counsellor on the Greenest City Action Team. “Thirty-five per cent of our waste is food,” said Reimer.
“We have a new program starting where two neighbourhoods will have biweekly garbage and food-scrap pickup, and if that is successful, we will work toward that happening for the whole city.”
A water conservation program was also approved in July that should make a significant impact.
Reimer is very satisfied.
“We can’t go from zero to 100 in a year,” said Reimer, “but we are on a very good timeline.” with files from the canadian press
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