Heads up: Some areas in the ward may be impacted by an upcoming change to the Waste Collection Day!

Starting Monday March 30, 2026, the City of Ottawa will begin a new curbside collection contract for garbage, green bin, and leaf and yard waste. The new contract includes updated service levels approved by Council in September 2023 through the Solid Waste Services’ Curbside Collection Contract report.

What’s changing

• In late February 2026, all curbside households will receive a mailed letter reminding them to check their updated collection schedule using the online collection calendar.
• Collection day changes: Approximately 50 per cent of curbside households will see a change to their collection day or weekly set-out schedule as of March 30, 2026. New collection schedules can be found at Ottawa.ca/CollectionCalendar.
• Leaf and yard waste set-out: Residents will be required to set leaf and yard waste out separately from the green bin (in paper yard bags or an acceptable reusable container clearly marked “leaf and yard waste”) to support cost-effective processing.

Recycling collection:

• Miller Waste on behalf of Circular Materials is aligning their schedules to match. If your waste collection day is changing, your recycling collection day will also change.

What’s not changing

• Collection frequency remains the same: green bin and leaf and yard waste will continue weekly, and garbage every two weeks.
• Push days: Holiday “push days” will continue. The first two weeks of the new contract include Good Friday (April 3), which will result in a push day for Friday collection, and Easter Monday (April 6), which will shift city-wide collection by one day that week.
  
  

To help ease the transition to new curbside collection schedules, the City will allow each curbside household to place up to six garbage items at the curb on their new scheduled collection day between March 30 and April 24, 2026. Residents are reminded to continue using all waste diversion programs, including green bin and recycling through this transition and forward.

Just give us a call or email if you have questions – I recognize that there has been a lot of changes and am happy to get answers for you.