Waste management to get extra $71.6 million from Quebec

MONTREAL - Quebec will spend $71.6 million by 2015 on a residential waste management program focused on diverting organic waste from landfill sites.

That money will be added to the existing $650 million in federal, provincial and municipal subsides for composting and biogas plants.

The idea is to dramatically reduce garbage as well as create new technologies and jobs, Sustainable Development and Environment Minister Pierre Arcand said.

"When you know that one tonne of recuperated material creates 10 times more jobs than a tonne of buried material, you realize the potential of this resource," Arcand said.

The province now produces 13 million tonnes of residential waste each year.

Quebec wants to cut the amount of garbage going to landfill sites from 810 kilograms per person in 2008 to 700 kilograms by 2015.

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