Environment

Waste Management Program

Garbage Collection

• Collection Schedules
• Bag Tags
• Prohibited Materials List

Transfer Station

• Location, Hours and Disposal Fees
• Material Separation

Recycling

• Mandatory Recycling By-Law
  For industrial, commercial and institutional facilities.
• Blue Box Recycling
  • material list
  • pick up schedule
  • Forgot to set your blue box out?
• Electronics Recycling
• Corrugated Cardboard Recycling

Household Hazardous Waste

• Household Hazardous Waste
  • HHW form
  • Material list
  • Schedule

Composting

• Composting
• backyard composting tips
• how to purchase a composter
• city compost site

 

General Information

• Long Term Waste Management Plan

 

With Owen Sound's cold winters and warm summers, people sometimes leave their vehicles idling unnecessarily. If you are stopped for more than 10 seconds, (except in traffic), please turn off your engine. It takes less fuel to restart your engine than it does to idle for 10 seconds.

 

Unnecessary vehicle idling:

• Wastes fuel and money,
• Contributes to climate change,
• Affects local air quality and our health, and
• Can damage engine and exhaust components.

 

---

Orange Drop is an industry-funded recycling program aimed at keeping hazardous and special waste materials out of Ontario's landfills and waterways. The Orange Drop Program allows Ontarians to return designated materials to local Municipal HHW Depots, retail sites and collection events across Ontario. Visit the Orange Drop website.