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Apartment / Condo Waste Collection

We offer apartment and condo garbage, recycling, and organic collection for buildings with seven or more units. Building owners or managers may choose to register for our collection program or arrange collection privately.

Ask your property owner, manager, or superintendent to confirm how waste collection works for your building. 

If your building has signed up for our collection program, they will have large waste collection carts for recycling and organics. Use your blue and grey box, or recycling bag and green bin to sort your waste and empty it into the proper collection cart. 

Our What Goes Where tool can help you correctly sort your waste.

We offer recycling and organics collection free of charge for residential apartment and condo buildings with seven or more units. Buildings with fewer than seven units are included in our standard household waste collection.

Contact Apartment Recycling to:

    • Set up, change or cancel your service
    • Request collection carts or arrange for replacement for damaged carts 
    • Get waste collection signage 

Garbage 

We offer apartment and condo garbage collection for a fee of $65.83 per unit. The total cost of collection is added to the property’s tax bill each year. 

To register, fill out the form for your building type: 

Collection rules

Follow these waste collection rules for apartments and condos to help us keep our collectors safe and ensure your waste is picked up!  

    • Make sure your waste is properly sorted! Unfortunately, not everything is recyclable or compostable. 
    • Place carts in the designated pick up location. 
    • Ensure there are no obstacles around the carts, including building overhangs and balconies.
    • Clear snow and ice from the area around the carts in the winter, and never place the carts on a snowbank.
    • Ensure each cart lid can completely close. Do not overfill your carts! You can always request more carts if necessary.
    • Place recyclables loosely in the proper carts, except for plastic bags. Place all plastic bags together in one bag and tie it closed. 
    • Place small cardboard, like pizza boxes, directly in the proper cart. Medium cardboard pieces can be bundled no larger than 90cm x 60cm x 20cm or left loose. 
    • Place large cardboard pieces in-between the recycling carts 

Uncollected waste 

Our collectors will leave boxes or carts behind if there is a safety risk for them or if they notice items in the box or cart that could negatively affect waste processing. When this happens, they will leave a non-collection notice on your bin or cart to explain why it was left behind. 

Help keep our collectors safe and avoid uncollected waste by following collection rules and keeping your boxes or carts in good working condition. 

Common reasons for uncollected waste:

    • Mixed materials or incorrectly sorted waste 
    • Damaged or broken carts 
    • Carts over overfilled or over the weight limit 
    • Carts in the wrong location for pick up

Contact

Apartment Recycling
apartmentrecycling
@cityofkingston.ca
Phone: 613-546-4291 ext. 2704

The City of Kingston acknowledges that we are on the traditional homeland of the Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat, and thanks these nations for their care and stewardship over this shared land.

Today, the City is committed to working with Indigenous peoples and all residents to pursue a united path of reconciliation.

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