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The City of Edmonton collects garbage and recycling from over 400,000 single and multi-family homes.
Residents will receive a large (240L) garbage cart, but a small (120L) one is available by request.
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Place your clean recyclables loosely into blue see-through plastic bags.
Set them out one metre (3 1/2 feet) from your regular garbage containers so that they're not mistakenly collected as waste.
Blue Bags are available at all major grocery and hardware stores. The City of Edmonton does not sell blue bags. Do not use green or black garbage bags because they will be collected as regular garbage. Only material placed in or beside the Blue Bags will be collected as recyclables.
When the blue bags are collected from your home they are taken to Edmonton's Materials Recovery Facility where they are sorted and baled for market. They are then sold throughout Alberta, BC, the western US and Asia.
Blue Boxes can decrease the quality of the recyclable material collected because materials can get wet when it rains or snows. Items set out inside a Blue Box can cause unintentional littering as items get blown about by the wind.
Using a Blue Bag is easy and keeps your recyclables dry and clean to ensure the materials you work so hard to sort can be recycled. Blue Bags make your collector’s work safer, easier and more efficient.
Carts cannot be collected from garbage stands or enclosures, and most garbage stands are too small to fit carts for storage.
If your carts fit, you are welcome to store them inside a garbage enclosure or on a stand when they are not in use, but for collection, carts need to be on level ground, not on a platform, garbage stand or on sloped ground.
Your garbage can should be:
View the garbageman's choice poster to see a photo of the right can.
Waste will not be collected from oversize garbage cans. Residents who set out oversize garbage containers could face a $60 fine.
Purchasing new garbage cans is not recommended, as a garbage cart and a food scraps cart will be provided to you by the City between March and August 2021. Once the cart-based collection starts, the City will not be able to collect your garbage cans.
Yes. The City offers Assisted Waste Collection.
Some items that can go into your garbage are:
Note: All material must be properly bagged, bundled or put in approved cans. Please keep the weight to less than 20 kg so there's no risk of injury to your collector.
Help us collect your waste more efficiently - Buddy up your garbage and blue bags with your neighbour!
Take them to a City Eco Station or the Edmonton Waste Management Centre. Eco Stations accept many items for free (for example, household hazardous waste and electronics).
If you're not sure what can be recycled, thrown away or taken to an Eco Station, download the What Goes Where poster.
Read our Waste Collection Safety Tips. Your collector will be glad you did!
If you have front street collection:
If your collection is in your rear lane:
Please read Needles, Syringes & other Medical Sharps for that information.
The City provides waste pickup only where population density allows. If you're not in a collection area, you can arrange for collection on a cost-of-service basis by calling the Waste Management Customer Support Centre at 780-496-5698.
Wasps love your garbage. Here are some tips to help minimize the number of wasps buzzing around your garbage:
Garbage and recycling are collected weekly on the same day of the week year-round, including statutory holidays. The only exceptions are Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year’s Day (January 1).
Garbage and blue bags must be out by 7am.
| Telephone | In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
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| wasteman@edmonton.ca |
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