2024 AVICC-UBCM Resolution Letter - Composting Toilets

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Bowen  Denman  Hornby  Gabriola  Galiano  Gambier  Lasqueti  Mayne  North Pender  Salt Spring  Saturna  South Pender  Thetis 
 
 
 
 
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  January 31, 2024      File: 6000-30-10; 5770-30-10 
 
Via email:  avicc@ubcm.ca 
 
Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities 
525 Government Street  
Victoria BC V8V 0A8 
 
Re: 2024 Resolution 
 
Please be advised that on January 17, 2024, the Islands Trust Executive Committee passed the 
following resolution for the 2024 AVICC Annual General Meeting: 
 
EC-2024-006 
It was MOVED and SECONDED,  
That the Executive Committee direct staff to forward a resolution with backgrounder for 
consideration at the 2024 Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities 
(AVICC) and Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) conventions, requesting that the Province 
review the Manual of Composting Toilets and Greywater Practice and provide funding for 
demonstration projects and professional development for practitioners. 
 
Please find attached the proposed resolution and backgrounder. 
 
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information. 
 
Yours truly, 
 
 
David Marlor 
Corporate Secretary 
 
Attachments:  
1. Islands Trust Resolution re: Composting toilet and greywater practices  
2. Islands Trust Backgrounder re Composting toilet and greywater practices  

 
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2024 RESOLUTION SUBMISSION TO UBCM 
 
 
 
 
COMPOSTING TOILET AND GREYWATER PRACTICES  
 
   
 
RESOLUTION: 
 
WHEREAS there have been barriers to uptake of alternatives to plumbed sewage disposal systems 
despite their allowance under the Sewerage System Regulation and the 2016 Manual of Composting 
Toilet and Greywater Practice;  
 
AND WHEREAS these barriers to uptake may include overly conservative requirements (and their 
application) for onsite application criteria for residuals in the Manual of Composting Toilet and Greywater 
Practice: 
 
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM call upon the Province of British Columbia’s Ministry of Health 
to review the Manual of Composting Toilet and Greywater Practice to update the onsite application 
criteria for residuals based on current scientific knowledge; and provide funding for demonstration 
projects and for practitioners’ professional development on composting toilets and greywater practices. 
 
 
 
 

 
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2024 RESOLUTION SUBMISSION TO UBCM 
 
 
 
 
COMPOSTING TOILET AND GREYWATER PRACTICES RESOLUTION BACKGROUNDER: 
 
   
 
 
British Columbia is facing an acute shortage of affordable housing needed to support the long-term 
sustainability and resilience of local communities.  In addition, it is facing the challenges of water scarcity 
exacerbated by climate change.  Many residents in rural areas, includin

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