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Tips for using your AutoBin
There are things you can do to help make AutoBins an effective and efficient part of Winnipeg's garbage removal process. Here's some helpful tips on using AutoBins:
How to properly use your AutoBin
- Use AutoBins for bagged household garbage and limited yard waste, including leaves and grass.
- Brush or tree branches less than 100 millimetres (4 inches) in diameter must be cut and tied together into lengths no longer than one metre (39 inches) and weigh no more than 34 kilograms (75 pounds).
- To help control odours:
- Tightly seal all food waste.
- Double bag and seal all animal waste.
- Bag and tie all grass clippings and yard waste.
- If your bin is full, put your garbage in a nearby AutoBin or wait until your bin is emptied.
- Do not leave garbage on the ground next to the bin. Our drivers never leave the vehicle and will not pick up items left on the ground.
- Do not move the bins.
- Do not put large items, such as furniture, mattresses, or appliances, in or near the bins.
- Do not put household hazardous waste products in your AutoBin or put them down your sewer or drains.
How to help with AutoBin collection
- We empty AutoBins on a different schedule from the five-day collection calendar. We may come more often if bins are overflowing.
- Know when to put out your recyclables. We collect them on your scheduled collection day.
Alternatives to using your AutoBin
- Use your blue box. Although it's easy to throw all your garbage into the AutoBin, take the time to recycle. It leaves more room in the bins for garbage. If you don't have a blue box, you can buy them here.
- Recycle your cardboard boxes. Flatten them so they don't take up a lot of space.
- Leave large item(s), such as furniture, mattresses or appliances, directly behind your property and contact us to arrange for special collection.
- Try composting grass clippings and yard waste.
- Grasscycle / mulch by leaving grass clippings on the lawn after mowing. The clippings quickly dry out, decompose, and recycle nutrients back into the soil and make your lawn healthy and green. Every time you throw away one bag of grass clippings, you are throwing away about 1/4 pound of lawn fertilizer!
- You can recycle your bagged yard waste free of charge by dropping it off at any seasonal leaf it with us depot.
- Loose or bagged yard waste can be dropped off free of charge year-round at Brady Road Landfill.
- Take construction materials, such as asphalt, concrete, sod, sand, mud, fences, lumber (both treated and untreated), drywall, shingles, hot water tanks, furnaces, carpets, flooring, sinks, bathtubs, doors or windows, to the Brady Road Landfill for disposal. There is a small fee per vehicle. Information on Brady Road Landfill is also available by calling the recycling and garbage information line at 986-8888, Code 9814 or contacting us. We will not pick up these materials in either regular or special garbage collection.
- Contact the Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg ReStore
, a building supply store that accepts and resells quality new and used building materials, about donating your reusable construction and renovation materials. - Safely dispose of your household hazardous waste products – free of charge – at the household hazardous waste depot. Information on the depot is also available by calling the recycling and garbage information line at 986-8888, Code 9811 or contacting us. If you put household hazardous waste products in your AutoBin, these harmful chemicals can injure you or the garbage collectors. Putting them down the sewer or drain damages the sewer in your home or contaminates our land and water.
Contact information
- Contact us to report:
- an overflowing bin, a damaged bin or large items piled up against a bin
- any abuse of the bin
- an odour or insect problem
- Report graffiti by contacting 311
- For more information on garbage and recycling:
- refer to the Solid Waste By-law
- contact 311
- You can also call the recycling and garbage information line at 986-8888, Code 9810.
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This page was last updated on July 6, 2011 |
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