Launch of community composters: Saturday November 28 at Center Des Grands-Vents
Join us to welcome the new members of our anti-waste team - our community composters: Saturday, November 28 at the Center Des Grands-Vents.
Special Guest: The Lazy Gardener – Larry Hodgson
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- Date : Saturday November 28
- Hour : 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (doors open at 1 p.m.)
- Who : Activity open to all ages (Note: Larry Hodson's presentation lasts approximately 45 minutes. For young children, there will be some small craft activities to do on site while they listen.)
- Registration : Please specify the number of people in your household who will be coming, and the ages of any children attending. Please also indicate if other members of your bubble plan to register, and the names of individuals (so that you can be assigned seats at the same table).
- Contribution : 5$ per household
- Bring : A nut-free snack and a container of vegetable or fruit peels/leftovers (optional).
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- Interactive presentation on virtual composting with The Lazy Gardener – Larry Hodgson
- you will have the opportunity to ask all your questions about composting!
- Quiz and prizes
- Mini-Tawashi sponge making workshop
- Launch of community composters
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- Interactive presentation on virtual composting with The Lazy Gardener – Larry Hodgson
- you will have the opportunity to ask all your questions about composting!
- Quiz and prizes
- Mini-Tawashi sponge making workshop
- Launch of community composters
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Registration by email before Thursday, November 26 at 12 p.m. To register, please contact Clare, at [email protected], or at (709) 726-4900
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Community composting on the rise
BAPTISTE RICARD-CHÂTELAIN / Le Soleil – September 19, 2019
Even though it still plans to launch the collection of food waste intended for its biomethanization plant in 2022, Quebec City continues to finance new community composting sites. By the end of the year, there will be 31 of them in the capital.
For several years, the community organization Craque-Bitume has gradually expanded the service, especially in central neighborhoods. “At the beginning of 2019, 22 sites were in operation and financed in Quebec, all located in the district of La Cité-Limoilou, except one [in Charlesbourg],” we read in municipal documents recently posted online. To read the entire article, click here The sun
