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At times of heavy snow, where should residents and businesses place user pay bags and blue boxes for curb/roadside collection?
REMINDER - Curbside collection is provided in urban areas and in rural Guelph/Eramosa.
CORRECT SET-OUT
Your garbage and recyclables should always be accessible to collectors, within one metre (3’) of the roadway. The best placement options for your user pay bags and blue boxes during the snowy winter months include:
- in a highly visible location at the end of the right side of your cleared driveway (i.e., right side when facing the roadway or street) in urban areas (and in rural Guelph/Eramosa if applicable to which side of the road collection occurs)
- on a ground level clearing that has been dug into the snow
 Blue boxes and user pay garbage bags should never be placed on or behind snowbanks.
WHY?...FOR SAFETY’S SAKE!
The practice of placing garbage and recyclables on top of or behind snowbanks can create safety hazards, and may result in your materials being left behind.
Every collection day, garbage and recycling drivers collect materials from areas with an average of 4,400 households. To avoid injury, the collectors have been instructed not to climb up or over snowbanks (to collect from households that are incorrectly setting out materials). Not only is this unsafe, but recyclables and garbage placed on snowbanks may become frozen to the snow (which makes collection difficult or impossible) or these materials could slide onto a roadway or sidewalk (creating a mess and/or a hazard for the travelling public).
If your garbage or recyclables are not collected, please place your materials out correctly the following week or take to a County waste facility (no charge for blue box materials or garbage in the yellow user pay bags).
Thank you for your cooperation and for helping make Wellington County’s curb/roadside collection programmes a success!
Click here to link to the Solid Waste Services web pages.
QUESTIONS? Contact SWS
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