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Garbage & Recycling

The Town of Renfrew provides curbside pick-up for household solid waste (garbage) throughout the municipality. The Town of Renfrew offers many Waste Management opportunities to their residents and some of these opportunities to the surrounding municipalities.

Collection Map 

Curbside Garbage Pick-up

  • Residential - 2 Bags
  • Commercial - 4 bags
  • Garbage must be placed at the curb on the correct collection day, no later than 7 a.m. on scheduled collection day or the night before.

Purchasing Extra Tags

To purchase additional tags a cost of $2.00 applies to each tag.
Please visit one of these locations to purchase your tags.

  • Town Hall
  • Landfill Site
  • Renfrew Library
  • Recreation Centre

Curbside Recycling Pick-up

Pick Up allocations apply as follows:

Residential:  no limit on blue box numbers as long as recyclables originate at the address.

Industrial, Commercial and Institutional

  • 8 blue boxes maximum
  • 2 clear plastic bags of fine paper per stop maximum

If your recyclables are not packaged as per the instructions above, the recycling contractor will not pick up your blue box.

Recycling Collection:  Reminder:  Stuff and Tie all Plastic Bags

All soft plastic film (such as shopping bags) must be stuffed into a single bag and tied.  Loose bags will not be collected.

Please note that Styrofoam is no longer accepted in the Blue Box.

Approved Recycling Containers

  1. Approved recycling containers shall include “blue boxes”, standard clear boxes, clear plastic bags (for paper only), corrugated cardboard boxes that are capable of easily being emptied into the collection vehicle or any other container that is easily carried and is capable of easily being emptied into the collection vehicle.
  2. Recycling containers must be placed to the curb such that they do not leak and are not damaged or deteriorated from rain or snow.
  3. Recycling containers size shall be (24” x 16” x 14”) and when filled does not weigh more than 23 kg (50 lbs.).

Blue Boxes for Sale

Cost: $10.00 per box.

Locations:
Town Hall & Municipal Garage (529 Lisgar Avenue)

The Blue Box Recycling Program enables each one of us to maximize waste diversion. Please familiarize yourself with all the options for recycling so that our recycling program is a success in Renfrew.

Please call Beaumen Industries at 432-7555, if you are having any difficulties.

Composting

A composter credit of $30.00 is available per property for the Town of Renfrew residents who install and purchase a composter. Please provide receipt at Town Hall for a rebate.

Leaf and Yard Waste

Renfrew residents may dispose of their leaves/grass free of charge at the Municipal Landfill Site. All bags/containers must be emptied at the designated area. Bags/containers must be free of paper and other refuse when emptied at the designated area.

The leaf and yard waste removal service will be provided for 3 weeks in the spring and fall each year. 

NOTE: The pick up for the service will begin on the Monday of each week. The number of leaf and yard waste items put out for collection during the regular collection period shall be unlimited during the leaf and yard waste collection periods.  Place your leaf and yard waste at the curb in a different area, other than your normal place for regular houshold waste for removal.

Approved Leaf and Yard Waste Containers and Sizing

  • Paper bags and bound bundles that are capable of being easily emptied and satisfies the size, or any other, requirements set out in this section.  Plastic bags will not be accepted.
  • Individual leaf and yard waste containers must not exceed 23 kg (50 lbs.).
  • Individual branches must not exceed 25 mm (1 inch) in diameter.
  • Bundled brush and twigs must not exceed 1.5 m (5 feet) in length and 0.6 m (2 feet) in diameter.
  • Do not mix with any household waste.

Curbside Placement

Leaf and yard waste containers must be placed in such a manner that they are not damaged or deteriorated from rain or snow to such an extent that they cannot be loaded into the collection vehicle.

Household Hazardous Waste Materials: HHWD - Located at the Bruce Street Landfill Site

  • Paints: All Types Of Paint And Stains, Varnish Etc.
  • Solvents: Turpentine, Disinfectants, Household Cleaners, Bleach, Oven And Drain Cleaners, Furniture Stripper, Ammonia Etc.
  • Pesticides: Herbicides, Pesticides and Insecticides, Weed Killer Etc.
  • Pool cleaners
  • Propane Tanks
  • Used Oil: Oil and brake fluid
  • Gasoline
  • Anti-Freeze
  • Batteries: Small Home Batteries, Car and Boat Batteries.
  • Oil filters

All of these above products must be in their original containers and disposed of safely and separately from our regular household garbage.
Household hazardous waste should not be thrown in the garbage or poured down sewers and drains.

This depot can be used FREE OF CHARGE by residents of the following municipalities:  Addington Highlands Township, Town of Arnprior, Admaston Bromley Township, Horton Township, Greater Madawaska Township, McNab Braeside Township and the Town of Renfrew.  For further information contact the Site Manager at 613-432-0731, 376 Bruce Street, Renfrew, ON.

Electronic Waste (WEEE)

Electronic devices are composed of reusable materials like plastic and precious metals that can be recycled and put back into manufacturing.

Landfill Site Use

Please note: Only waste generated in the Town of Renfrew will be accepted at this site.                 
Waste transported to landfill is to be sorted.


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