
This includes broken glass jars and bottles, glass and ceramic dishware, light bulbs (incandescent and LED), strings of lights, small picture frame glass, small mirrors, metal cutlery including knives, saw blades, screwdrivers, and other small, sharp objects that can fit into a standard garbage bag. No automotive parts, dead animals, electronic waste, hot ashes, liquids or needles/syringes. No banned items or hazardous waste such as fluorescent tubes and curly light bulbs.
Snack wrappers, chip bags, candy wrappers. Diapers, incontinence products, and hygiene products (sanitary pads, tampons). Cardboard cans, such as frozen orange juice cans, chip tubes. Butcher paper, parchment paper, waxed paper, plastic stretch wrap. Bubble wrap, bows and ribbons, foil and plastic wrapping paper. Broken dishware, broken glass, cutlery, incandescent and LED light bulbs, strands of lights (See below for details.). Bags that contained meat or cheese, mesh bags, stand-up pouches. And if you are sick, all other items that have touched your face such as juice cartons and pop cans. COVID-19 waste including masks, gloves, sanitizing wipes, facial tissues, paper napkins. Maximum weight for each bag or can: 23 kilograms (50 pounds)Ĭontainers that are not collected include over-sized wheeled carts, and large construction garbage bags. White garbage bags are difficult to see in the winter. Maximum garbage bag size: 65 centimetres (26 inches) by 90 centimetres (35 inches) when empty, minimum of 1.5 mil thick. Bagging garbage ensures that material is fully emptied when the can is collected and reduces litter before and during collection. Cans must have two handles and any lids must be removableĮven when using a garbage can, it is encouraged to put all garbage material in a garbage bag first. Maximum can volume: 121 litres (32 gallons), maximum can size: Height 84 centimetres (33 inches), and width 48 centimetres (19 inches). What are the correct garbage containers to use? on your collection day for the correct week, leave your garbage at the curb and use the online form to report a collection concern or call the Call Centre at 51 (24 hours a day, seven days a week). If there is no sticker and your garbage was set out by 7 a.m.
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