Garbage, Recycling and Composting

Please place your garbage, recycling and green bins in a visible location at the end of your driveway and NOT on the roadway, sidewalk, or snowbank. 

Make sure to clear an area to place your bins out and keep them back from the road. Collection crews will not dig out or retrieve your bins from snowbanks.

Placing your waste and recycling bins on the roadway is a violation of the Collection Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials By-Law 5590-14 and GFL will not pick up any garbage or recycling bins from the roadway.

Please place your garbage, recycling and green bins in a visible location at the end of your driveway and NOT on the roadway, sidewalk, or snowbank. 

Make sure to clear an area to place your bins out and keep them back from the road. Collection crews will not dig out or retrieve your bins from snowbanks.

Placing your waste and recycling bins on the roadway is a violation of the Collection Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials By-Law 5590-14 and GFL will not pick up any garbage or recycling bins from the roadway.


Place waste bins at the bottom of your driveway or on your lawn and not on the road

Christmas tree collection will take place from January 12 to 16, 2026.

Trees will be picked up on your scheduled collection day. Please have your trees set out to the curb by 7 a.m.

Decorations, tree skirts and plastic tree bags must be removed before putting your tree out at the curb for pick up. Trees cannot exceed 1.8 m (6 ft).

Please note: Crews will not dig through snow or climb a snowbank to retrieve a tree.

We have an important update regarding the upcoming changes to the Blue Box program:

You will NOT need to move your Green Bins, yard waste, Garbage or, recycling bins to the side street on December 4, 2025.

This is a reminder to all residents that you must continue to leave all recycling, Green Bin waste, and garbage in the laneway for collection.

Effective December 31, the large recycling carts will also get laneway collection.

As a reminder, please place your Blue Box, Green Bins, and garbage at the curb by 7 a.m. on your scheduled pickup day. Thank you.