Separate garbage and compost collection loads have been dumped onto the same pile.
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This claim has not been checked. It is waiting on the question below, which is what a brief, a body of evidence and a panel run are spent on.
Its questionGoing ahead
The City's facility reports and the provincial packaging program's end-market disclosures show where Edmonton's recycling and compost actually go, including whether any is shipped overseas or landfilled and what happens to a contaminated bag; the claims about what residents assume and the count of dumps outside the city are side details that will be dropped.
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The question it is checked under
What happens to Edmonton's recycling and compost after collection?
Going ahead. One brief covers every claim under that question, and each claim still gets its own finding. The question's page carries the reason, the grouping and the other claims made about it.
Where it came from
Taken from Edmonton Rant and Rave post on garbage service, 2026-09-10, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this one is listed whatever became of it.
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How it was said
Every wording of this claim found in the source, quoted exactly. The names are pseudonyms, one to a person within the source.
they forced them to make two trips, one for the garbage, a second one for the compost, and they both went to the exact same pile.
Sunny Pelican T.
Some companies, they go out and pick up the brown bins. They take it to the dump and dump it. Then they go back and get the compost bins, and go dump it on the same pile.
Sunny Pelican T.
come back to town and start my 500 houses all over again but with the green bins this time, where did I go you say? Right back to the dump and dumped it on top of the pile that I had just dropped there 3 hours previously.
Copper Squirrel D.