Winnipeg, MB - The seasonal yard waste collection program begins Monday, April 28, 2014, and will continue until November, depending on the weather. Yard waste will be collected at the curb once every two weeks, on the same collection day as recycling and garbage. Residents may check the Recycling, Garbage and Yard Waste Collection Days calendar for their area to find out their yard waste collection date, available on Winnipeg.ca and the MyWaste app which can be downloaded from the Apple and Android app stores.
Residents can put their yard waste in:
- any reusable container without a lid (e.g., plastic tubs, old blue boxes, old metal or plastic garbage containers) - containers should not be broken or damaged
- cardboard boxes
- paper yard waste bags (available at many stores)
Plastic bags are not accepted in the program because they do not break down and will ruin the finished compost.
Residents are reminded to place their yard waste containers to the side of their recycling and garbage carts, and to leave an arm’s length between their yard waste containers and their recycling and garbage carts.
The curbside yard waste collection program was rolled out city-wide in October 2012, as part of a new waste minimization strategy designed to give residents more ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, and significantly reduce the amount of material that is landfilled.
The program will help reach our goal of keeping more than half of our garbage out of the landfill, and will help protect our environment by:
- reusing valuable organic material, and
- significantly reducing harmful leachate and greenhouse gases.
In 2013, more than 19,000 tonnes of yard waste was collected from the new curbside yard waste collection program and composted at the Brady Road Resource Management Facility.
To find their yard waste collection dates, residents can:
- download the My Waste app at winnipeg.ca/mywaste
- check e-CIS - the City’s Electronic Citizens Information Services Electronic Citizens Information Service on winnipeg.ca
- phone 311