Taber receives International Communitas Award for environmental practices
TABER – The Town of Taber’s Municipal Solid Waste Initiative has been awarded a 2018 Communitas Award in the category of Ethical and Environmental Responsibility – Green Initiatives.
The Communitas Awards is an international effort to recognize exceptional businesses, organizations, and individuals that are changing how they do business to benefit their communities, and the name stems from the Latin word meaning people coming together for the good of a community.
The Green Initiatives Category evaluates a company’s environmental practices and green programs. The Town’s MSWI was introduced in 2016 as a way to move towards more environmentally-minded waste collection initiatives and included three carts for recycling, organics, and residual waste.
Within eight months of the launch in May 2016, the Town of Taber saw a 55 per cent and 17 per cent diversion rate for organics and recycling, respectively. These numbers indicate the percentage of waste diverted from the landfill, and the Town has also seen 34 per cent decreases in both transport costs and truckloads leaving the Transfer Station since the MSWI was implemented.