The City of Pitt Meadows is making it easier for residents to be green with a smart phone app.
With the free My Waste app, you will no longer miss garbage day.
The app for iPhones and Android phones allows users to set reminders for trash and recycling pickup, tell residents where to recycle various items and allows homeowners to report missed pickups.
The app also enables users to “Report a Problem” to the city if they spot potholes, burnt out street lights and other city maintenance issues.
The app will be launched by the end of the month in a campaign to get residents of Pitt Meadows to “take a bite out of garbage”.
The campaign starts a month before the city begins picking up organic waste, such as food scraps and grass clippings, from the curb.
A large green cart and kitchen container will be distributed to single family houses in the city, starting in May.
“We are asking people to change their behaviour,” said city director of communication Lorna Jones, who introduced the catchy slogan, logo and its accompanying recycling “super hero” to council last week.
It costs the City of Pitt Meadows every time a pop can, plastic bottle or cardboard box is thrown out with the garbage into already swelling landfills.
A 50 per cent surcharge is tagged to the tipping fees of each garbage truck, every time something recyclable is found.
Metro Vancouver wants to the proposition of waste diverted from its landfill to reach 70 per cent by 2015.
Residents will be allowed to throw out food scraps including pizza boxes and yard waste in the green bins.
The city will eventually expand the program to multi-family dwellings.
• Learn more at pittmeadows.bc.ca.