Recycling organic materials and solid waste in Richmond will soon get a whole lot easier for everyone.
Last month, the Green Cart program was launched, allowing people in single-family homes and townhouses to recycle food scraps and other organics.
Plans to extend that service to multi-family developments were approved by a city council committee on Wednesday.
The public works committee approved an 18-month pilot project to be implemented in October 2013 that would be similar in nature to the one in progress, but targeted towards about 100 multi-family and mixed-use developments, including four small-scale commercial complexes, such as strip malls.
Suzanne Bycraft, manager of fleet and environmental programs with the city, said theyre also looking at areas within the town core.
For commercial, Bycraft and her team will approach a number of sites and work with any that are interested.
Im sure there will be things that we encounter over the next 18 months that youll learn from, said Coun. Linda McPhail, agreeing with the pilot approach.
The citys goal is to increase awareness and promote better use of recycling services, which will now also include additional materials accepted at the citys recycling depot; such as batteries, cell phones and styrofoam.
There will also be a bin for books provided by Discovery Books Ltd., an organization that works with schools and libraries to promote reading.
