Starting next week (June 8), you can put out an unlimited amount of trash on your regular garbage collection day.
Residents will have their extra garbage collected only on their scheduled garbage day, not on their recycling collection day. This means you only have one chance to do this, depending on the day when your waste is usually picked up.
For the most part, you can put out on the curb all the trash that you want, and you don’t need garbage tags. But there are a few exceptions.
Some items are not eligible, such as electronics. To make sure, follow the waste sorter link to find out if an item can be put on the curb or if you have to take it to a Peel Community Recycling Centre (CRC).
You can use Peel’s online collection calendar to confirm when your garbage exemption day will take place: Collection calendar – peelregion.ca.
Here are some other rules to consider during the exemption period:
Placement and collection
- Put your extra garbage out on your garbage collection day. Collectors won’t pick up garbage from the curb on recycling collection days.
- Collectors might collect your cart and excess garbage at different times during the day.
- Leave your garbage cart and excess garbage at the curb until 8 p.m. If neither is collected by 8 p.m., report waste not picked up.
Placing extra garbage on the curb
- Put smaller garbage items in garbage bags.
- Place larger items separately on the curb.
- Place your excess garbage next to your garbage cart. Leave 1 m (3 ft.) of space between the excess garbage and the cart.
Excess garbage bag weight and size limits
A garbage bag placed at the curb for collection cannot:
- Weigh more than 20 kg (44 lbs).
- Be larger than 66 cm (26 in) wide and 90 cm (35 in) high.
- Be smaller than 30 cm (12 in) wide and 30 cm (12 in) high.
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