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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) Metro Vancouvers new food scrap program is costing some school districts tens of thousands of dollars.

Organic food scraps arent allowed in with regular garbage so each school has to make some changes.

Doug Strachan with the Surrey School District says it will cost about $50,000 there but it could have been worse.

There has been a focus on our environmental impact for sometime in the district, many of our schools were already recycling in all the forms mandated by Metro Vancouver, he says.

In Coquitlam its costing about $22,000 this year but more than $60,000 next year.

It is a challenge but we do set some money aside around sustainability initiativesthis year that cost pressure of $22,000 is coming from there. For the following year, this has been put toward the budget process so it will be put forth as a cost pressure.

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Wegmans Tuesday said it is following a recall and removing from sale 93 percent Lean Organic Food You Feel Good About Grass Fed Ground Beef after a recall from J&G Foods.

The recall indicated that the ground beef may contain small strips of translucent, flexible plastic. The recalled packages have a use or freeze by date of Jan. 16, 2015, and were sold between Dec. 27 and Jan. 13.

The products in this recall are:

Wegmans 93 percent Lean Organic Food You Feel Good About Grass Fed Ground Beef, small pack UPC: 77890-20152

Wegmans 93 percent Lean Organic Food You Feel Good About Grass Fed Ground Beef, Family Pack UPC: 77890-34315

All products may be returned for a full refund.

For more information, call Wegmans Consumer Affairs at 1-855-934-3663.

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