Compensation for Food Recovery Programs

Whereas community food recovery programs have organized to collect food that would otherwise go to the landfill from grocery chains, fast food establishments, and locally owned food businesses along the procurement, processing, and distribution chain; And whereas the costs of diverting organic and recyclable items from for-profit businesses from mainstream landfill sites is being shouldered by non-profits, thereby adversely burdening food recovery programs who addressing food security and improving food access to vulnerable community members: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM request the province offer rebates to food recovery programs to offset escalating costs of organics, recycling, and waste disposal fees.