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.

Category

Example

Collection location

Hazardous industrial waste

Solvents, wood preservatives, paint

Consult the section on hazardous household products

Severely Toxic

Cyanide

Consult the section on hazardous household products

Ignitable waste

Propane, fuel or gas tanks, used oil

Consult the section on hazardous household products

Corrosive waste

Acid, car batteries

Consult the section on hazardous household products

PCB waste

Electrical transformers

Consult the section on hazardous household products

Biomedical waste

Medical waste, drugs

Contact your local pharmacist

Any appliance containing Freon

Fridge, Freezer, Air conditioner

Contact your local scrap yard

     

Construction materials and demolition waste

Gyprock, Flooring, Wood, window and doors

Contact your local waste disposal

Automobiles

Vehicles, or any part

Contact your local scrap yard

Metal

Fences, fence posts, fence wire, bicycle, tin

Contact your local scrap yard

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.

Category

Specification

Preferred drop-off location

Secondary disposal option

Hazardous Waste

Paint, coatings, stains and driveway sealer

Return-to-retail
*Home Hardware in Hawkesbury
*No aerosols paints accepted

Annual hazardous waste event

Hazardous Waste

Aerosols (spray cans of paint, insecticides, pesticides, etc)

Annual hazardous waste event

 

Hazardous Waste

Solvents, acid, bases and any household hazardous waste not elsewhere on this list.

Annual hazardous waste event

 

Ignitable Hazardous Waste

Oil filters, empty oil containers (30L or less), used oil, antifreeze and antifreeze containers from non-commercial source.

*Commercial garages must independently arrange for appropriate disposal of automotive waste.

Return-to-retail
*Canadian Tire in Hawkesbury – MUST bring to service counter
*No gas or fuel accepted (see below).

Annual hazardous waste event

Ignitable Hazardous Waste

Gasoline tanks and used/dirty gasoline.

Annual hazardous waste event

 

Propane tanks (in good condition)

4.7 Gal – 20 lbs BBQ propane tank
*In good condition

Return-to-retail (where you can purchase these propane tanks)

Annual hazardous waste event

Propane tanks (NOT in working order)

4.7 Gal – 20 lbs BBQ propane tank
*Heavily rusted or broken

Annual hazardous waste event

 

Explosives

Dynamite, grey powder, rockets, firecrackers, ammunition or grenades.

Contact the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)

 

Corrosive Waste (batteries)

Car Batteries and household batteries

Return-to-retail
*Car batteries: Canadian Tire in Hawkesbury – MUST bring to service counter
*Household batteries: Call2Recycle boxes at Canadian Tire and Staples in Hawkesbury.

Annual hazardous waste event

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.

 

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

Category

Specification

Preferred drop-off location

Secondary disposal option

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

 

 

Electronic material

Televisions, computers, printers, cellphones, tablets, laptops and radios.

Contact Recycle Action for recycling

Return-to-retail
*Staples Hawkesbury accepts certain items

Printing supplies

Toner, ink and empty cartridges.

Contact Recycle Action for recycling

Return-to-retail
*Staples Hawkesbury accepts certain items

Return-to-retail
*Manufacturers have mail-in recycling programs. Check online or call.

Tires

Off rim

Return-to-retail
*Most garages will accept old tires.
*Canadian Tire in Hawkesbury – MUST bring to service counter

 

Contact your local landfill

Light bulbs

Neon, fluorescent, incandescent, halogen, LED, metal halide

Annual hazardous waste event

Return-to-retail options being developed in 2023

https://www.productcare.org/

recycling-locator/

Styrofoam

White, clean packing Styrofoam, excluding flexible or small Styrofoam pieces (peanuts)

Contact Recycle Action for recycling

 

Dirty/ soiled, flexible or small pieces of styrofoam

Soiled with food residue, flexible polystyrene or small Styrofoam pieces (peanuts)

Garbage

 

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

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

CRD - Construction waste

 

Gypsum, flooring, lumber, stones, windows and doors, bathtub, toilets, carpeting, door, sink, shower stall, etc.

Contact your local landfill

 

Automobiles

Vehicles, or any part thereof

Contact your Local Scrap yard

 

Metal

Fences, fence posts, fence wire, bicycle, Tin

Contact your Local Scrap yard

 

Liquid or semi-liquid waste 

 

Dispose of according to the nature of the liquid. If hazardous or ignitable, refer to these categories

 

 

Pool filters and water softener tanks

Water and sand must empty

Branches

Bundled and tied measuring no more than 1.2 m (4 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.

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