Curbside organics pick-up in Castlegar will finally begin this summer but city council still has to make a couple of key decisions first.
The program was originally supposed to start last October, then got delayed to April, and is now expected to arrive on Aug. 21.
Municipal services manager Chris Hallam told council last week education around the program will launch the first week of July. The city has hired an organics ambassador to help get the word out.
Households will receive new 120-litre carts around the end of July. These will be used for garbage pickup, while existing 240-litre carts will then be redeployed for organics and yard waste.
Next week Hallam will bring reports to council to settle two outstanding questions, including whether to provide additional carts to those households who would like them.
Hallam said there are three options: no additional carts, providing an additional 120-litre cart at a cost, or allowing people to trade their 120-litre carts in for a 240-litre cart, also at a cost.
They further need to determine the fate of the existing yard waste facility next to the recreation complex.
Hallam said the three options would be to close the facility; to keep the status quo (involving collecting material, grinding it down, actively composting it and screening it into a Class A compost product); or to receive yard waste, chip it down, and transport it to the landfill where it would then be taken to the compost facility outside of Salmo.
