Yard waste collection passes hurdle

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WINNIPEG — City council’s public works committee has approved a plan to collect yard waste from northwest Winnipeg homes during the spring and fall.

Couns. Bill Clement (Charleswood) and Harry Lazarenko (Mynarski) voted in favour of a plan to collect grass cuttings, leaves and branches for four-week periods in the spring and fall from households served by new automated garbage carts, which have limited storage capacity.

Coun. Dan Vandal (St. Boniface) voted against the plan because he wants the city to develop a comprehensive plan to deal with yard waste, garbage and recyclables collection.

Clement said he actually agrees with Vandal, but said the city must deal with northwest Winnipeg — the first area of the city to get automated carts — right away.

Clement said year-round curbside compost collection is probably coming to Winnipeg in the future.

"If we go city-wide, we’re going to have to deal with organics," he said.

The spring-and-fall yard-waste program for northwest Winnipeg will cost $232,000 a year.

The plan still faces approval from executive policy committee next week and council as a whole on Feb. 24.