Food waste might not have to travel far from your curbside green bin. CTV News London has learned that city hall’s public tender seeking a company to process separated household organic waste received just a single bid.
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LONDON, ONT. City council will consider spending $303,990 to participate in a first-of-its-kind monitoring network to detect and predict the periodic rotten odour in neighbourhoods south of Highway 401. “We will now have a technology that will be sniffing 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” explains Jay Stanford, director of Climate Change, Environment and Solid Waste. Stanford recommends adding City Hall’s W12A landfill to a new detection network for three years. Odour sensors and a new weather station would be positioned around the perimeter of the landfill to detect hydrogen sulphide, a foul smelling gas. “(We’ll be) able to predict and reduce odours at the W12A landfill site,” says Stanford.