Reminder: Your waste collection day may change starting Monday, March 30
Starting Monday, March 30, your waste collection day may change due to the City’s new curbside collection contract. This change will impact about half of Ottawa households.
To check if this impacts you, view your collection calendar↗ online or in the Ottawa Waste Collection Calendar app↗. If you are affected by this change, you will see your updated collection day on the week of Monday, March 30 and beyond. If you are signed up for weekly collection reminders, you can continue to rely on them.
Please note, there will be no curbside collection on Good Friday, April 3, or Easter Monday, April 6. Pick-up will be delayed by one day for the remainder of that week. Some holidays push collection, so your collection day for weeks with holidays may differ from your standard collection day. Our waste reminder emails↗ notify residents when collection is pushed because of a holiday.
Collection-day changes affect all your waste, including garbage, green bin, leaf and yard waste, and recycling. Although recycling is managed by Circular Materials on behalf of the Province, the City and Circular Materials worked together to align collection days, including having the same holiday push days.
The frequency of garbage, green bin, leaf and yard waste, and recycling collection is not changing.
As part of the transition to the new collection schedule, some households may experience two weeks of the same waste stream being collected. To accommodate this disruption, between March 30 and April 24, all households that receive curbside collection services may place up to six garbage items at the curb on your new scheduled garbage collection day.
Collection in Barrhaven East
New residential curbside collection contract begins the week of March 30. Please take note of the streets listed in the graphics below.
How to use the digital collection calendar
Your waste collection calendar is at your fingertips! With the digital collection calendar↗, you can:
Check your collection day
Sign up for waste collection reminders and service alerts by email, text or phone call
Print your calendar
Mailed collection calendars are being discontinued in 2027 to reduce waste.
What else is changing with the new curbside collection contract
Leaf and yard waste will continue to be collected weekly, but it must be set out separately from your green bin, either in a reusable container↗ labelled “Leaf and Yard Waste” or in brown paper bags.
For more information on City programs and services, visit ottawa.ca↗, call 3-1-1 (TTY: 613-580-2401) or 613-580-2400 to contact the City using Canada Video Relay Service. You can also connect with us through Facebook↗, Bluesky↗, X (formerly Twitter)↗ and Instagram↗.