What you can compost at Winnipeg’s drop-off locations [Video]

With food waste drop-off stations to soon open in Winnipeg, residents can now begin to prepare their food scraps.

“Start putting them into an airtight container or in your fridge or freezer,” said Karrie Blackburn with Compost Winnipeg.

“Or it’s refrigerator weather outside now, so you can just stick them out in a pail or something like that, and then next time you’re going out past one of those community bins, just drop it in.”

Earlier this week, the city announced that Compost Winnipeg is launching 15 food waste drop-off stations across Winnipeg starting on Oct. 15.

With these stations, Winnipeggers can put food and other compostable materials into a container or compostable bag and bring it to one of the sites.

Blackburn explained that one way to determine what can go into the compost bin is to ask yourself whether the item was alive or came from something living. …