The City’s new three-item garbage limit starts on Monday, September 30. The limit applies to residents who receive curbside waste collection, including those whose waste is collected in one shared location and those living on agricultural properties.
There will continue to be no limit to the number of green, blue and black bins and leaf and yard waste.
The new limit will encourage households to rethink what truly needs to go to landfill and what could be reduced, reused, recycled or composted instead. Reducing unnecessary waste from going to landfill helps keeps disposal and collection costs lower. It also helps extend the life of our Trail Road Waste Facility Landfill as we explore new options for waste disposal.
Around 85 per cent of households already set out three garbage items or fewer on collection day. The new limit is more generous than many municipalities, including neighbouring communities around our city.