FoodCycler Program
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The FoodCycler Program is now closed and all units sold.
Managing your food waste is now convenient and easy when you have the FoodCycler. In a matter of hours, your food waste will turn into a soil amendment, full of nutrients, that you can use in your gardens. Managing your food waste at home will reduce your garbage and may reduce your trips to the Transfer Station.
About the FoodCycler pilot program
The FoodCycler pilot project will measure the feasibility of in-home composting of food waste to help protect the environment and reduce the amount of waste going to the Transfer Station Sites.
- The FoodCycler pilot project is 12-weeks in length (Tracking to start June 27 and end September 19, 2022)
- Participants will purchase the FoodCycler from the Municipality of Trent Lakes for $169.50. These units retail for $499.99
- Participants will receive a Resident Guide listing common acceptable materials, as well as an FAQ
- Participants will complete an online survey upon conclusion of the 12-week pilot.
- Participants will complete the weekly logs, tracking the number of cycles for each of the 12 weeks
- Participating households will keep the FoodCycler following the conclusion of the pilot
Register to participate
Two hundred and fifty Trent Lakes households are needed to participate in this pilot.
Participants must be a property owner in the Municipality of Trent Lakes.
Click on the registration link to register.
Price
The retail cost of a FoodCycler is $499.99. Thanks to a subsidy from Impact Canada, and a subsidy from Trent Lakes, participants will purchase the FoodCycler for just $169.50.
About the FoodCycler
Founded in 2011, FoodCycle Science is a Canadian company that produces residential and commercial devices that use electricity to quickly compost food waste into a finished compost product.
FoodCycle Science's residential device is called FoodCycler. It is approximately 32 cm x 27.94 cm x 36.07 cm (approximately the size of a breadmaking machine). It can hold up to 1 kg (2.5 litres) of food waste. Using electricity, the device dries and grinds food waste (fruit cores, vegetable peels, dairy, chicken bones, and more) into a dry, odourless, nutrient-dense by-product that is significantly reduced in weight and volume from its unprocessed state. The end product is free from bacteria, and weed seeds and food-borne pathogens are eliminated in the process.
Each "cycle" of composting takes approximately four to eight hours. The FoodCycler uses 0.8 kWh of electricity (approximately 10 cents per composting cycle).
The FoodCycler is viewed as a complement to (not a replacement of) backyard composting or digesters.
FoodCycler Accessories
The following items can be purchased from the Municipal Office:
- Refillable filter packs (includes 2 refillable filters and 2 carbon packs) - $22.60
- Box of carbon packs (includes 8 packs which is 4 filter changes) - $56.50
- Spare FoodCycler buckets - $50.00
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