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Joining the program
If you live in an apartment, condominium or townhome, please contact your property owner or manager to ask if or when they plan to consider using Guelph’s three-stream waste collection program.
Here’s how multi-residential property managers or owners can participate in the City of Guelph’s municipal waste collection services:
- contact us and arrange a site visit to make sure the waste collection access point and process is suitable and safe;
- submit a waste management plan for approval;
- sign an agreement to allow the City to collect waste at your property;
- get insurance for collection on private property
- distribute a letter, educational materials and promotional supplies to residents to introduce the program; and
- sort waste into three-streams (organics, recyclables and garbage)
Blue box transition
All municipalities in Ontario are transitioning the blue box program to a new collection model called producer responsibility. Producer responsibility requires the companies that produce blue box materials to fully fund and operate the recycling system, including collecting from multi-residential properties.
Starting in January 2025, City-serviced multi-residential blue box collection will transition to the producer responsibility system and the City of Guelph will stop collecting recycling from multi-residential properties but continue to collect garbage and organic waste.
New multi-residential properties opening in 2025 will be eligible for free service through the producer responsibility program and existing buildings using a private collector for recycling will become eligible in January 2026.
For more details on the blue box transition and how multi-residential properties are affected, visit our webpage on blue box changes in 2025.
Resources
- Agreement City Collection of Waste at Multi-residential Property using Communal Collection
- Guidelines for Solid Waste Collection
- Request for City Waste Collection Services
- Waste Management Plan and Source Separation Commitment – Developers and Redevelopers
- Waste Management Plan and Source Separation Commitment – Existing Properties
- Proper Sorting Printout for Residents
- Sorting Poster (11 x 17)
- Sorting Poster (8.5 x 11)
For more information
Solid Waste Resources
519-767-0598; TTY: 519-826-9771
[email protected]
- Blue box changes in 2025
- Clothing donation locations
- Compost at home or at work
- Construction, Renovation and Demolition Waste Management Guidebook
- Donate plastic bags and reusable shopping bags
- Downtown Solid Waste User Fee Study
- Downtown waste collection
- Goods Exchange Weekends in Guelph
- How to dispose of furniture, appliances, large items
- How to dispose of household hazardous waste
- How to dispose of restaurant grease and oil
- How to sort garbage and recycling in Guelph
- Multi-residential waste collection
- ReCycle your bike, or get a used bike free
- Single-use items reduction strategy and ban
- Waste Resource Innovation Centre
- Waste Resource Innovation Centre Public Liaison Committee
- Waste cart orders and repairs
- Waste collection for businesses
- Waste collection schedule
- What happens to Guelph’s waste?
- Yard waste
Guelph Waste app
Use the Guelph Waste app to sign up for email or phone reminders about your waste collection schedule.
Download the free mobile app for Apple or Google devices.
