Forms for Property Owners

1. Information Request Form

Registers the property into the Backflow Prevention Program and helps the City understand and assess the risk level of a property, summarizes the main business activities, and identifies a primary contact.

What is the Backflow Prevention Program?

Are your recycling or organics items freezing to your bins?

With freezing temperatures in colder months, it's possible that some waste materials may freeze inside the bins and directly adhere to the bins' interior.

Many retailers are now producing large volumes of low quality, inexpensive clothing, designed to be bought, worn and quickly discarded. As we shop in store or online we fail to realize the negative effects this production has on the environment.

Below are few of the ways that textiles are impacting our environment.

Small changes can produce big benefits!

Here’s how you can reduce your holiday waste:

Participate in the 2025 Curbside Giveaway Days on the following weekends:

Set-out requirements

• Recycling is collected every Thursday for front-end wheeled bins and every Friday for carts.
• Recycling material must be placed out for collection no later than 7 a.m. on collection day.
• Recyclable materials all mixed together in 96-gallon blue recycling carts or front-end wheeled bins (three to eight cubic yard capacity).
• Items must be placed at the designated collection area approved by the City.

Legislative Requirements - Mandatory Recycling

Ontario Regulation 103 / 94 of the Environmental Protection Act states, in part, that "The Owner of the building that contains six or more dwelling units shall implement a source separation program for the waste generated at the building". This means that recycling in multi-residential buildings is mandatory.

Set-out requirements

• Organic waste is collected every Friday.
• Organic materials must be bagged and bins/carts must be placed at the designated collection area approved by the City by 7 a.m. on collection day.