Garbage and Recycling

Waste management is the "generation, prevention, characterization, monitoring, treatment, handling, reuse and residual disposition of solid wastes", and includes all types of waste:  solid, liquid or gaseous. There are various types of waste including municipal (residential, institutional, commercial), agricultural, and special (health care, household hazardous wastes, sewage sludge). The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics.

Notice To Residents

Please  place garbage or recycling for collection within 5 metres (15 feet) of the travelled portion of the street or highway

fronting your property by 7:00 a.m. on the morning of the day of collection.

The occupant of a residential dwelling unit may put a maximum of five (5) standard bags

(containers or bundles) of domestic waste per collection.  

Garbage and recycling pick-up will be done according to the regular schedule all year long, except on

Christmas Day and New Year's Day.  Pick-up for these holidays will be postponed by one day.

Leaves and Yard Waste - Landfill Site

Grass clippings and leaves may be brought directly to the landfill site at no charge

Tires

There are no fees for disposal of tires.  Tires must be brought to the municipal dump.

Please make sure that tires are removed from the rims.

Our By-Laws page has a complete copy of the Waste Management Bylaw #2009-55, Consolidated March 2016