Ottawa's green-bin program has shifted away 53,000 tonnes of organic waste from the landfill in 2010, a quantity that has met the city's aim for the first year of the program but is below the amount the city has made a contract to get rid of.

The green-bin program had been started back in January, and a rising quantity of organic material was diverted in the year as additional number of bins was rolled out to homes and they were incorporated into the regular routine of the people, as told by River Councillor Maria McRae, the chairwoman of council's latest stand-alone environment committee.

She said that they have been extremely successful up till now to make the residents take part in the program, however if they were to desire to boost their net diversion, they will have to take the program to the next level.

The city has signed a 20-year contract with Orgaworld divert 80,000 tonnes of organic material annually by spending $93.40 for every tonne. The deficit in 2010's quantity means that the city is giving the company money for approximately $2.5 million of service that it wasn't made use of.