As the countdown to Christmas 2019 approaches the final week, the City of Calgary is offering ideas on how to make it a green one.

Council's utilities committee has agreed on the next step in approving a $12 million demolition of the composter facility, but one councillor doesn't agrees with the plan for the replacement building.

Montreal will invest $167 million dollars towards a treatment centre for organic waste.

The Edmonton Composting Facility is ceasing operations immediately and shutting down due to "changes to the structural issues," the city announced Wednesday.

One Vernon business that already composts said contracting an outside company to pick up their organic waste cost approximately $80 per month and has reduced their garbage by roughly 75 per cent.

The City of Winnipeg is celebrating International Compost Awareness Week by giving away free compost to residents.

People are invited to drop off their yard waste at either of Saskatoon’s compost depots starting April 15.

City hoping pilot project will reduce up to 138 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in a year.

Saskatoon city councillors voted on a plan to increase property taxes by one per cent every year leading up to the organics program’s launch in 2023.

Saskatoon councillors are expected to discuss the city’s options to implement curbside compost pickup.