MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! 
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Happy holidays to you all! 
Garbage and Recycling
Garbage
Garbage is collected weekly. Your garbage bin must be placed with the logo facing the street. See the garbage collection schedule to find out which day garbage will be picked up at your residence.
A 240 litre (64 gallons) garbage container marked with a Township serial number and logo is provided to each residence. This container is the waste limit for each residence. No other containers may be used for collection.
If you have more waste, you may have a second container at the City Hall, however, you will be charge for 2 units.
Large Waste Collection
Each household is allowed to put 2 large items at the curb on the third Tuesday of each month. Bulky items are collected separately from the bins so please ensure that your bins and bulky items are at the curb no later than 7:00 a.m. on your collection day. (See items with restrictions and items not allowed.) For tires, each household is allowed to place 6 tires per year on the curb on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Collection will be made within one week. Leaf and yard waste, each household is allowed to place on the 3rd Tuesday of May and November and collection will be made within that week.
By-Law no. 2021-63 with list of restricted and unauthorized waste
By-Law no.2021-63 Being a by-law to authorize the execution of a service contract between The Corporation of the Township of East Hawkesbury and GRS Sanitation Inc. for the collection and transportation of non-hazardous waste.
By-Law Amandement 2022-29 Being a By-Law to amand By-Law no.2021-63 for the service contract with GRS Sanitation Inc. for spring yard waste collection.
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Category |
Example |
Collection location |
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Hazardous industrial waste |
Solvents, wood preservatives, paint |
Consult the section on hazardous household products |
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Severely Toxic |
Cyanide |
Consult the section on hazardous household products |
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Ignitable waste |
Propane, fuel or gas tanks, used oil |
Consult the section on hazardous household products |
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Corrosive waste |
Acid, car batteries |
Consult the section on hazardous household products |
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PCB waste |
Electrical transformers |
Consult the section on hazardous household products |
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Biomedical waste |
Medical waste, drugs |
Contact your local pharmacist |
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Any appliance containing Freon |
Fridge, Freezer, Air conditioner |
Contact your local scrap yard |
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Construction materials and demolition waste |
Gyprock, Flooring, Wood, window and doors |
Contact your local waste disposal |
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Automobiles |
Vehicles, or any part |
Contact your local scrap yard |
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Metal |
Fences, fence posts, fence wire, bicycle, tin |
Contact your local scrap yard |
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Electronic appliances |
Television, computers, printers |
Contact Recycle Action (Convex Group) for disposal |
NB: In all cases, if an item is reusable, we encourage that items be dropped off at an appropriate reuse center or thrift store.
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Category |
Specification |
Preferred drop-off location |
Secondary disposal option |
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Hazardous Waste |
Paint, coatings, stains and driveway sealer |
Return-to-retail |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Hazardous Waste |
Aerosols (spray cans of paint, insecticides, pesticides, etc) |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Hazardous Waste |
Solvents, acid, bases and any household hazardous waste not elsewhere on this list. |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Ignitable Hazardous Waste |
Oil filters, empty oil containers (30L or less), used oil, antifreeze and antifreeze containers from non-commercial source. |
Return-to-retail |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Ignitable Hazardous Waste |
Gasoline tanks and used/dirty gasoline. |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Propane tanks (in good condition) |
4.7 Gal – 20 lbs BBQ propane tank |
Return-to-retail (where you can purchase these propane tanks) |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Propane tanks (NOT in working order) |
4.7 Gal – 20 lbs BBQ propane tank |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Explosives |
Dynamite, grey powder, rockets, firecrackers, ammunition or grenades. |
Contact the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) |
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Corrosive Waste (batteries) |
Car Batteries and household batteries |
Return-to-retail |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Medical Waste |
Restricted to unused or expired medicine (including inhalers) and sharps IF in designated sharps container. These designated sharps containers are available for free at pharmacies. Â |
Return-to-retail - Contact your local pharmacist*in Hawkesbury: Shopper’s Drug Mart, Jean Coutu, Walmart Pharmacy, Medical Pharmacy and Pharmasave *Pharma Choice in Vankleek Hill |
Annual hazardous waste event |
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Category |
Specification |
Preferred drop-off location |
Secondary disposal option |
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Cosmetics |
Skincare and cosmetic products such as mascara, facial cream and eye liner. |
Return-to-retail*Walmart Service Counter in Hawkesbury – Recycle in Beauty program  |
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Electronic material |
Televisions, computers, printers, cellphones, tablets, laptops and radios. |
Contact Recycle Action for recycling |
Return-to-retail |
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Printing supplies |
Toner, ink and empty cartridges. |
Contact Recycle Action for recycling Return-to-retail |
Return-to-retail |
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Tires |
Off rim |
Return-to-retail  |
Contact your local landfill |
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Light bulbs |
Neon, fluorescent, incandescent, halogen, LED, metal halide |
Annual hazardous waste event |
Return-to-retail options being developed in 2023recycling-locator/ |
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Styrofoam |
White, clean packing Styrofoam, excluding flexible or small Styrofoam pieces (peanuts) |
Contact Recycle Action for recycling |
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Dirty/ soiled, flexible or small pieces of styrofoam |
Soiled with food residue, flexible polystyrene or small Styrofoam pieces (peanuts) |
Garbage |
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Ashes |
Extinct residue from the burning of coal and wood |
Place in the ash container in front of the fire station at 780 Spence Ave. |
Household composter or use as soil amendment |
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Any appliance containing Freon |
Fridge, Freezer, Air Conditioner |
Contact Recycle Action for recycling |
If emptied of freon by certified technician, certain household appliances are accepted during bulky waste collection |
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CRD - Construction waste  |
Gypsum, flooring, lumber, stones, windows and doors, bathtub, toilets, carpeting, door, sink, shower stall, etc. |
Contact your local landfill |
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Automobiles |
Vehicles, or any part thereof |
Contact your Local Scrap yard |
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Metal |
Fences, fence posts, fence wire, bicycle, Tin |
Contact your Local Scrap yard |
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Liquid or semi-liquid waste |
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Dispose of according to the nature of the liquid. If hazardous or ignitable, refer to these categories |
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Pool filters and water softener tanks |
Water and sand must empty |
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Branches |
Bundled and tied measuring no more than 1.2Â m (4Â ft) long |
Recycling
Recycling collection now managed by Circular Materials.
As of July 1, 2023, Circular Materials, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating efficient recycling systems is responsible for the Township of East Hawkesbury's blue box recycling program. Their contractor, GRS Sanitation, will collect recycling throughout the Township each week. This new program is a provincial effort to create a more consistent and efficient blue box service that will reduce waste and allow more materials to be recycled in more communities. For more information on this program, visit their website, Circular Materials.
Accepted Materials in Recycling Bin
If you have any questions about recycling, please contact GRS Sanitation at 613-551-5145 or by e-mail at grs.sanitation@outlook.com..
Styrofoam
The Township does not collect Styrofoam, containers are available at Recycle-Action in Hawkesbury. The service is free.
