Waste Wise Community Outreach
Clean Calgary Compost Hotline: 998-8846
Call the Compost Hotline with all your composting questions, troubles and success stories. Your questions and stories are very important to us, if we do not answer please leave a message and a CCA staff or volunteer Master Composter will phone you back as soon as they can.
“We will help you” – this was the sign that Gail Gay needed to start composting again. Gail and her 14-year old grandson, Victor Kingston, joined Waste Wise Outreach Program, from Clean Calgary Association, and now they are learning how to compost properly. “It is a little bit more complicated than you think”, explains Gail, adding “that’s the difference: to be able to have someone helping you, even over the phone”.
What it is
- Waste Wise is a community-based social marketing pilot project to encourage and engage 100 Dalhousie households to reduce their waste by 30% through home composting.
- The first 100 households who commit to home composting will be offered free incentives and hands-on training, support, and mentorship from our Master Composters.
What You Can Do
- If you are a Dalhousie resident, sign up now to be a pioneer in community waste reduction! Help build a proud Waste Wise community.
- Contact ashley@cleancalgary.org at call Ashley at Clean Calgary (403) 230-1443 ext 223 to be part of this important initiative.
Why Compost?
- Compost is nature’s way of recycling and around 40% of household waste is compostable, like kitchen scraps and yard wastes. It is one of the most effective ways a homeowner can reduce landfill waste.
- When you compost, you create a rich soil amendment called humus, also known as black gold, which provides nutrients to plants and reduces their water requirement.
- When you convert food scraps and other organic waste to fertilizer, you are feeding the earth through composting, improving soil health, water quality, temperature stabilization, topsoil stability and root penetration, reducing the need for chemical solutions and nourishing plants, fruits and vegetables. So, feed the earth, not the landfill...
- Composting is free! You get the best product for the best price! Who can argue with that?
Maybe you’ve heard that we have land to spare. We don’t face a land shortage like in other municipalities, right?
- Landfill space is not the only issue. Is it worth bulldozing green space around our cities to accommodate our unnecessary excess? Is this the Calgary we want our kids to inherit?
- Compostable waste degrades anaerobically and despite the best engineering, one of the byproducts of this decomposition that makes its way into the atmosphere is methane gas, the most potent greenhouse gas.
