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City sells 2,250 compost bins

By: Lindsey Wiebe

16/06/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

THE city sold all 2,250 compost bins in stock and issued nearly 700 rain cheques at a weekend sale that had traffic lined up around the block at one location."It's a great turnout," said Darryl Drohomerski, Winnipeg's manager of solid waste services.

Compost bins and rain barrels were on sale at three locations around the city Saturday: the St. James Civic Centre, the St. Vital Centennial Arena and Kildonan Place Shopping Centre.

All told the city sold about 600 more compost bins than last year.

There was an equally high demand for rain barrels, on sale for the first time. The city sold all 1,050 in stock by 9 a.m., said Drohomerski, an hour after the sale began, and issued rain cheques to more than 1,300 more people.

Drohomerski said the attendance was boosted by the addition of the rain barrels and the balmy Saturday weather. Traffic at the St. James location was reportedly backed up onto Ness Avenue by 7:30 a.m., he said.

The city paid around $40,000 to a Norseman Plastics for the Earth Machine compost bins, sold to Winnipeggers at a subsidized price of $30.

Drohomerski said people who've already been promised bins or barrels can pick them up July 11 at the St. Vital Centennial Arena. He said he's trying to work out an arrangement that could let Winnipeggers who still want a bin order online and pick it up at that time.

Around 100 bins each have also been distributed to the Spence Neighbourhood Association and the Pollocks Hardware Co-op on Main Street to sell to neighbourhood residents who couldn't reach the sale locations.

lindsey.wiebe@freepress.mb.ca

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 16, 2009 B2

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