GARBAGE AND RECYCLING PICKUP SCHEDULE
Garbage pickup is once a week on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, while recycling is once a week on Tuesday or Thursday.
To find your area’s collection day, use the map below select the grey search bar to enter your address. You will see your address highlighted, both for garbage pickup and recycling pickup for the address displayed below.
For both recycling and garbage pickup, containers must be on the curb by 8 a.m. on the corresponding day of pickup.
HOLIDAYS
Garbage and recycling are collected on holidays as usual, except for New Year’s Day (when falls on a weekday), Good Friday, Remembrance Day (when falls on a weekday) and Christmas Day (when falls on a weekday) where collection will occur the following Saturday.
RECYCLING PROGRAM
The City of Selkirk has a blue box program for residential and small commercial recycling. All recyclable items should be placed in the blue box and there is no limit to the amount of recycling that can be put out each week. Each new household will receive one blue box from the City. Please submit a CitizenSupport ticket to make arrangements to pick up your blue box at the Operations Department.
Apartment buildings will have recycling toters. They are sold through the City at cost. Please submit a CitizenSupport ticket to make arrangements to pick up your toter at the Operations Department. Large commercial enterprises that may wish to recycle must make their own arrangements for bin rental/purchase and pickup through a private company.
RECYCLABLE ITEMS
The following is a list of recyclable items
• Newsprint and flyers
• Magazines
• Telephone directories
• Corrugated cardboard
• Box board (cereal boxes, tissue boxes)
• Gable top cartons (milk cartons, juice cartons)
• Aseptic containers (juice boxes)
• Steel food and beverage containers
• Aluminum beverage containers
• PET #1 plastic containers (pop bottles)
• PP #5 plastic containers (yogurt containers)
• #7 plastic containers (ketchup bottles)
• HDPE #2 plastic containers (milk jugs)
• Glass containers (jam jars, sauce jars)
NO PLASTIC BAGS OR STYROFOAM
All containers should be rinsed and flattened where possible.
For more information regarding what is accepted in our recycling program, choose Selkirk below.
SOLID WASTE
2 bag/can limit. Residential premises will not be allowed more that 2 cans/bags of solid waste per residence. The maximum dimensions of a standard garbage can are 50 cm x 82 cm (20″ x 32″ – 124 litres) Garbage cans should not exceed 22 kg (50 lbs) in weight. Cans should have handles to facilitate handling.
The maximum dimensions of a plastic bag are 89 cm x 127 cm (35″ x 50″) Garbage bags should not exceed 22 kg (50 lbs) in weight.
EXCEEDING TWO-BAG LIMIT
Surcharge stickers can be purchased for occasions when you exceed the two bag/can limit. The sticker must be applied to the extra bag or can, or city staff will not pick them up.
Excess cans/bags of waste (over the limit of 2) may be put out for collection if a residential surcharge sticker has been applied. If it’s an extra can, put the sticker on the outside of the bag inside the can. If it’s an extra bag, put the sticker on the outside of the bag.
Surcharge stickers can be purchased for $3.25 each at Canada Safeway, Co-op Food Store, No Frills and the Civic Office at 200 Eaton Ave.
The third and additional can/bag of waste without a sticker will not be collected.
SMALL COMMERCIAL WASTE/ LARGE COMMERCIAL WASTE
All bags of small commercial waste must have a commercial surcharge sticker attached to the outside of the bags, Surcharge stickers can be purchased for $3.25 each at Canada Safeway, Co-op Food Store, No Frills and the Civic Office at 200 Eaton Avenue. Large commercial enterprises must make their own arrangements for dumpster rental/purchase and pickup through a private company.
UNACCEPTABLE MATERIAL FOR CURB-SIDE PICKUP
• construction/demolition waste
• excavation waste
• bulky waste
• metallic waste
• used tires
• used oil
• hazardous waste
The above materials are accepted at the Waste Transfer Station on Walker Avenue west of Hwy. 4.
YARD WASTE AND COMPOSTING
Yard waste, such as leaves and grass clippings, will be picked up year-round. Residents are permitted to put out for collection unlimited bags of yard waste per week. Yard waste must be placed in either paper yard waste bags or transparent plastic bags having a maximum size of 89 cm x 127 cm (35″ x 50″). Bags must not exceed 22 kg (50 lbs) in weight.
Branches must be no longer than 1 metre (3 feet) long and bundled with string. Bundles of branches must not exceed 22 kg (50 lbs) in weight.
In efforts to reduce the amount of organic waste going to the landfill, the City of Selkirk encourages residents to do backyard composting. Learn more about composting HERE.
City of Selkirk employees also want to do their part in reducing organic waste being landfilled. All three of the office buildings have planned their own composting ritual. Fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds and yard waste from around the municipal buildings will be composted in a pilot program starting this fall. You’ll see the compost bins in action soon if you visit our municipal office at 200 Eaton Avenue.
The type of composter that the City is using is called the “Earth Machine”. Each Earth Machine includes a Home Composting Handbook to help get you started and information on how to maintain the compost material until it is ready for use. The end result compost is a nutrient rich “super soil” to add to gardens and lawns. Please click on the attached pdf supplied by Earth Machine to view the Home Composting Handbook.
At this time, the City is not stocking composters for residents to purchase, however they are available at home and garden stores and online.