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Ottawa residents can start tossing plastic bags and dog feces in their green bins on July 2, the city says.

Council voted in March 2018 to allow plastics and dog feces in the green bin in a renegotiated deal with Renewi, the organics plant operator, to resolve outstanding contract disputes.

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The city’s auditor general discovered municipal taxpayers were overpaying to send organics to the Renewi plant (formerly the Orgaworld plant).

The city hired Hill+Knowlton Strategies last year to gauge public opinion about the green bin.

The research suggests 77 per cent of people with curbside garbage pickup use their green bins.

Before the polling, the city’s best information was that about half of households were using their green bins.

Solid waste services director Marilyn Journeaux said the older information was based on a waste audit of 100 homes over four seasons in 2014-2015.

(The Hill+Knowlton phone survey of 2,032 people was conducted Dec. 5-21, 2018. The margin of error was 2.2 per cent).