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Recycling Bin

Niagara Region held a media event today at Glenridge Naturalization Site to celebrate the one-year anniversary of every-other-week garbage collection and acknowledge Niagara residents for their amazing work in increasing the use of the Green Bin.

Niagara residents are doing their part as Green Bin tonnage is up 24 per cent and garbage tonnage is down almost 16 per cent. Recycling tonnages have also increased by almost 8 per cent since the new collection changes came into place.

Niagara Region partnered with Land Care Niagara to secure a tree to plant at the end of today’s event to celebrate the milestone. Niagara residents have demonstrated their commitment to the environment through their diversion efforts. To recognize this, Niagara Region will contribute to Land Care Niagara’s rural tree planting and natural heritage programs. Through these programs, they plan to plant 20,000 trees in 2022.

Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site, the venue for today’s event, operated as a municipal landfill site from 1976 to 2001. In the 1990s, it was decided that a naturalization site with a trail system would replace the landfill once it closed on Jan. 1, 2002.

Niagara Region launched the new curbside collection changes on Oct. 19, 2020, which saw the following collection changes for low-density residential properties:

  • ​Recycling (Green Bin, Blue Box, Grey Box) collected every week
  • Garbage collected every-other-week, with residents able to put out two bags/cans

The collection changes help to preserve landfill space by diverting organics, and other recyclables, help keep collection costs down, save our natural resources and reduce our impact on climate change. Niagara residents and businesses were informed of the pending changes through a communications campaign starting in summer 2020, which encouraged residents to Box It. Bin It. Sort It.

The new collection contract also split Niagara Region into two areas:

  • GFL Environmental Inc. is the contractor for Collection Area One (Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, Thorold, Wainfleet and West Lincoln)
  • Miller Waste Systems Inc. is the contractor for Collection Area Two (Fort Erie, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Port Colborne, St. Catharines and Welland.)

Visit the Niagara Region Waste Management website for more information on programs and services or download the Niagara Region Waste app.

 

A message from Niagara Region