Municipal Waste Options

Town of Smiths Falls

Garbage

Smiths Falls has weekly curbside garbage pickup. Each residence is restricted to two bags, but additional containers will be collected if they have a tag affixed to them. Tags can be purchased for $2.00 from the Town Hall.

The Town will accept:

• Kitchen and table waste of animal origin, clothing, paper, broken crockery, and other such material.
• Articles which would normally accumulate at a dwelling.
• The Town will collect weighty, and bulky articles such as major appliances, bedsprings, mattresses, furniture, boxes, water tanks, and other such discarded material.

The Town will NOT accept:

• Industrial, Commercial, or Institutional waste
• Liquid or frozen material
• Construction material
• Automobile bodies or parts
• Animal carcasses
• Brush, timber, lumber, rocks, gravel, or soil
• Any garbage that is not placed in a proper container or bag.

See Town of Smiths Falls Garbage Routes map for to see the day your area has its garbage and recycling pickup.

Construction and metal waste can be dropped off at Glenview Iron and Metal which is located 4 km. northwest on Hwy #43 to Perth or can be reached at 283-5230.

For more details, consult the 2010 Household Waste and Recycling Guide.

Recycling

Smiths Falls operates a curbside blue box program that accepts:

• Boxboard
• Corrugated cardboard
• #1 - #7 plastics
• Metal and Aluminum Cans
• Glass bottles and jars
• Newspapers, magazines, and household paper
• Empty aerosol and paint cans
• Aluminum trays and foil

For more details, consult the 2010 Household Waste and Recycling Guide.

Blue boxes can be purchased for $6.50. Recyclables will also be collected if placed in other open topped containers like baskets.

Hazardous Waste

Smiths Falls residents may use the Household Hazardous Waste Depot located in Carleton Place.

Compost

Smiths Falls uses a compost site located along Hwy. #43, (east of Hillcrest Cemetery) that accepts:

• Leaves
• Grass clippings
• Brush

The site is open May until November from 8:00am to 4:00 p.m. every Saturday. In 2010, the site opens May 8 and closes Nov 21.

Please do not leave materials at the gate. Persons doing so will be charged under the Highway Traffic Act Section 180 - Littering the Highway.

The Town collects leaves/brush at curbside twice a year: once in the Spring, and once in the Fall as is advertised in the local EMC. Residents are asked to place their yard waste in CLEAR BAGS ONLY, at curbside for the day following their normal day of garbage collection.

Contacts

Town's Waste Disposal page: http://www.smithsfalls.ca/departments.cfm?departmentid=28

Local Contacts:

Recycling: Waste Management - (613)-257-2955

Household Waste : Topps Waste Inc. - (613)-257-1195

Construction Waste: Glenview Iron & Metal - (613)-283-5230

Town of Smiths Falls:

vbernicky@smithsfalls.ca (613)-283-4124 ext. 147 or

Updated June 2010.