No composting at Jean-Talon market
Jean-Talon market doesn’t allow for composting of the quantities of surplus fruit and vegetables that don’t get sold. Stall holders are not thrilled with management’s inability to make the change.
-
Kate
Reply
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- steph on Relentless rain causes flooding
- Chris on Relentless rain causes flooding
- su on Relentless rain causes flooding
- Ian on Mayor’s Black husband faces police stops
- Ian on Relentless rain causes flooding
- Chris on Police chases, a dossier
- Chris on Relentless rain causes flooding
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Bluesky feed that follows local environment news. Also available on Mastodon.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
Meezly 11:06 on 2023-11-14 Permalink
I imagine that what limited space there is at the market they’d rather use for stalls, seating and more pleasant things than smelly, rotting organic matter. If only there was a public park nearby with a garden where the compost can be dumped and eventually used… it would be so wonderfully circular!
Kate 11:22 on 2023-11-14 Permalink
I suspect the market produces more organic waste than a single park could use up. As the item says, they’re not distributing as much edible food either as they could. There needs to be a daily service where inedible stuff gets moved into the regular city system, and still‑edible food goes to food banks or soup kitchens or whoever can use it. Maybe the city needs to add daily compost pickups at the markets as part of its service. It’s all a matter of logistics.
Ian 12:31 on 2023-11-14 Permalink
When I worked at Atwater Market the vendors all let me take all the damaged/ wilted fruits and vegetables I wanated. I ate like a king all year and only had to buy rice & chicken, everything else was free, fresh, and healthy.
John B 15:50 on 2023-11-14 Permalink
Perhaps the “farmers” could take inedible waste back to the farm to be composted…. but I guess then the people at the market would actually have to operate a farm, not buy product from the same place as supermarkets do.
DeWolf 21:37 on 2023-11-14 Permalink
It’s a public market, not a farmer’s market. There’s a difference.