Courtesy City of Port Coquitlam

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) While Metro Vancouvers new organic food scrap ban kicks in January 1st, most people will actually have until 2017 before its strictly enforced.

Starting in the new year large restaurants, hotels and supermarkets need to separate the scraps from their garbage but theyll have a six-month grace period.

Andrew Marr with Metro Vancouver says it will be phased in for everyone else.

Obviously the inspectors will start looking harder for smaller quantities of food scraps. So the quantity theyre looking for will go down in 2016 and then itll go down again in 2017.

It will be up to the people bringing in the loads to make sure they are clean, or theyll be fined.

We have people who randomly inspect loads of garbage when theyre arriving at our facilities and so they just do a visual inspection. Its a very simple thing, they dont open bags or anything like that. So theyre just looking really for large obvious quantities of food scraps.

Metro Vancouver feels the phase approach will help to resolve any initial issues.

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Metro Vancouver organic food scrap ban to be phased in