REAL - Smiths Falls

Municipal Waste Options

Town of Smiths Falls

Jan 1, 2011: a New Recycling Program in is Effect

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, but it counts as one of your garbage containers. E.g. you could put out two bags, or a bag and an unusable chair, or just two unusable chairs at no charge.s

The Town will NOT accept:

Industrial, Commercial, or Institutional waste (businesses, see recycling note)
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.

New! Swap days to take place in June and August 2011. Leave usable items at the curb the Friday of the eent weekend for others to take, but please bring in anything that is not taken Sunday night.

June Swap Day: Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4th, 2011.

For more details, consult the 2011 Waste Management Guide.

Recycling

Smiths Falls operates a curbside blue box and yellow box program. Blue boxes and yellow boxes are put out on alternate weeks. Schedule is incorporated in the 2011 Waste Management Guide with each month on a different page.

Note to Businesses: if you are located on a collection route, you can call the town to make arrangements to have your recyclables picked up as well.

Blue Box - Fibre

Boxboard (e.g. cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, tissue boxes)
Soft and hard cover books
Corrugated cardboard (flattened, bundled, tied)
Detergent boxes
Egg cartons
Brown paper bags
Magazines, catalogues (plastic removed)
Household ad office paper
Newspapers and fliers (plastic removed)
Pizza boxes (clean)
#1 - #7 plastics
Metal and Aluminum Cans
Glass bottles and jars

Yellow Box - Containers - now includes plastics # 1 - 7

Glass bottles and jars (and lids)
Metal cans (steel and aluminum)
Aluminum trays and foil (clean)
Empty metal paint cans
Gable end milk and juice cartons
Empty aerosol and paint cans
Tetrapaks (e.g. soup or juice)
Plastic small mouth food and drink containers
Plastic wide mouth dairy containers

Additional boxes. Additional blue boxes can be purchased for $6.50, and yellow boxes for $10. Recyclables will also be collected in any sturdy similar sized open topped container, such as a laundry basket or plastic storage tote box. If you wish, you can also exchange your yellow box for an additional blue box. As long as the appropriate materials are put out in the designated collection week, they will be collected.

Hazardous Waste

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

Compost

Backyard composters are available for sale for $20. Fee includes delivery and guidebook.

Christmas tree pickup is available the second week of January. Watch local media for details.

Smiths Falls has a Community 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 2011, the site opens May 7 and closes Nov 19. Help yourself to finished compost during those hours as well.

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

Leaf Collection. 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. In 2011 the week will be Nov. 3rd to 8th.

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