Up to 40 trucks make more than 1,000 stops a day. Visual: Truck stops, collection operator picks up garbage, empties contents into vehicle. Visual: Garbage can being placed beside green bin at the curb title appears.Įvery two weeks, a collection crew shows up to pick up your garbage. Bundles should be less than 1.2 m (4 ft.) in length, less than 60 cm (2 ft.) in diameter and less than 15 kg (33 lb.) in weight.Īcceptable metal or plastic garbage bag/container All carpet should be tied and bundled.Do not mix leaf and yard waste, recyclables and garbage together. Add leaf and yard waste to your green bin.Sawdust, ashes and other material of similar nature go in your green bin.Doing otherwise can result in serious injuries to collection operators Separate all broken glass from your garbage and place it in a cardboard box clearly labeled 'broken glass'.
All garbage cans, bags or boxes should not weigh more than 15 Kg (33 lb).Make sure material is packaged or contained securely in a plastic garbage bag or garbage can to avoid loose debris.Cardboard boxes are a recyclable item and must be placed in the black bin. Do not use cardboard boxes for garbage.To avoid collections issues, please do not use shopping bags or small white garbage bags when setting your garbage at the curb.Do not put recyclables, organics or yard waste in plastic bags.Place bags or cans on the ground as close as possible to the roadway, but not on the sidewalk, roadway or on top of snow banks.Put garbage at the curb any time after 6:00 pm the evening prior to your collection day and no later than 7:00 am on your collection day.Residents receiving curbside collection can set out up to six items every second week on garbage day. How many bags, items or cans can be put out? Not sure where an item belongs? Please check the Waste Explorer.Only non-recyclable items should be placed in the garbage.Check your Collection Calendar to confirm your collection schedule.Leaf and yard waste is collected with your green bin.Blue bins and garbage are picked up the same week.Recyclables are picked up on alternating weeks (black bin one week, blue bin the next).This will help ensure the safety of waste collection operators.įor information about on-site workplace rapid antigen screening, please visit OttawaPublicHealth.ca.Ĭollection information How often is garbage collected? For residents in the City of Ottawa, rapid COVID test kits from at-home testing must be placed in a plastic bag and then placed in your regular household garbage.Used paper facial tissues should be placed in plastic bags and can go in the green bin as per regular waste disposal practices.If you take your used gloves and masks home, throw them away in a garbage bin lined with a plastic bag, and be sure to wash your hands after Residents should dispose of all garbage, including gloves and masks, in waste bins.We are seeing an increase in disposable gloves and masks discarded on the ground in public, especially in grocery store parking lots. Used gloves and masks are garbage and do not belong on the ground.There is no change to curbside garbage and recycling collection.
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