Waste Management

Household Waste Disposal for Residents of Carleton Place

WASTE	DISPOSAL
Hazardous Waste Please note: Partial cans of paint should be mixed together. Put dry empty cans in your blue box. Bring full cans of waste paint to the Compost Site.	Now Closed for the Season
Recyclables	Place in Blue Box at the curb before 7a.m.
Compost-friendly material including food scraps	Use your backyard composters. Compost Yard Reopens Spring 2012
Clothing and textiles and sports equipment.	Call the Canadian Diabetes Association at 746-4633 for free pick up or deliver to one of the many local organizations who accept.
Appliances	Place at the Curb, on your regular garbage day, with 2 stickers where they will be picked up for recycling.
Metal	Bring to the Compost Yard from May to November - Bring to the Public Works Yard from mid November to May
Large Items, furniture	Consider reuse options first. Place at the curb, on your regular garbage day, with 2 stickers.
Regular Garbage Bags	One sticker each, 2 if more than 15kg.
Electronics Recycling	Waste Management, 613-257-1602

Holiday Garbage and Recycling Pickup Please Note: When normal pick up days fall on a Statutory Holiday (New Years Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Civic Holiday, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, & Boxing Day) the garbage collection for that day will occur the following day. Recycling will be the following week

Curb Side Blue Box Recycling

Effective June 1st, 2010, you may now include #2 Plastic tubs and lids in your curbside blue box collection.

Also new, plastics #3, #4, #5, #6, and #7 can be dropped off at:
- Waste Management 8011 Hwy 15 Weekdays 9am – 4pm
- Town Yard Waste Depot (Saturdays from 8:00a.m - Noon. May to October

- Public Works Yard (Monday - Thursday, 8am -4pm, Friday, 8am-11am) November to April

Boardbox

Includes single layer boxes (e.g. shoe, cereal, detergent), egg cartons, tubes, brown paper bags and manila envelopes. FLATTEN, remove any food and liner bags and stuff into large boxboard box. DO NOT include milk cartons, laminated cartons (frozen food), drinking boxes or waxed paper.

Corrugated Cardboard

Must be flattened and tied in bundles no larger than 30"x30"x8" next to your blue box. No waxed or coated boxes.

PET #1 Plastic

Small mouth screw-top plastic containers marked with #1 on the bottom or side. NO lids, tubs or pails. Rinse and flatten to save space.

Metal and Aluminum Cans

Place loose in blue box. Includes food and beverage, empty paint cans (lid removed, check bottoms as it may not be metal but plastic with metal top), empty aerosol and crushed clean aluminum foil and trays.

Glass Bottles and Jars
Place loose in blue box. Food and beverage containers only. DO NOT include broken glass, windows, ceramics, Pyrex, light bulbs or drinking glasses.

Newspaper, Magazines and Mixed Household Paper

Place in paper bag beside blue box. Keep separate from boxboard and cardboard. DO NOT include hardcover books, manila envelopes, construction paper, wrapping paper, laminates or envelopes with windows.

Household Hazardous Waste - Currently Closed - Reopens Spring 2012

The Town of Carleton Place operates a Household Hazardous Waste Depot now located at the compost yard on Patterson Crescent. The depot is open Saturday mornings from 8:00 am until Noon. Residents can bring their household hazardous waste products to our drop off facility located at 128 Patterson Crescent. The following items are acceptable:
Paint Cans
Empty Propane Tanks
Unwanted Oil
Batteries

The following items are NOT acceptable:
Fluorescent Light Ballasts
Pharmaceuticals
Smoke Detectors
Tires
Construction Waste
Electronics

Compost Yard/ Yard Waste - Closed for the season - Reopens Spring 2012

The Town provides a Compost Yard off of Patterson Crescent. The Yard accepts grass clippings, yard waste, tree branches etc. The Compost Yard is open Saturday mornings from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon. The depot is open from mid-spring to late November.

Christmas Tree Collection - First two weeks of January

The Town provides curb side collection of Christmas Trees to all residents of Carleton Place. Please place your tree at the curb side on your normal collection day. No garbage stickers are required for this service.

Leaf Collection

The Town provides curb side leaf collection during late October and early November ONLY. Leaves must be in paper leaf bags and placed at the curb on your regular garbage day. Leaves in plastic garbage bags WILL NOT be picked up by the Town.