Starting on Monday if households are above the new three-item garbage bag limit residents can use a yellow bag instead.
If the three-garbage bag limit is exceeded and there is no yellow bag, an item will be left behind with a note, a city press release reads. By December, any bags over the limit that are not in the yellow bag will be left at the curb.
This is a part of Ottawa’s goal to lower the number of garbage items reducing build-up at the Trail Road Waste Facility and greenhouse gases. There are no limits on recycling or composting.
Bags are sold in packages of four for $17.60. There are no limits on the number of yellow bags out on the curb or the number purchased.
“Keep in mind that large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged,” a city press release notes.
Here’s where to buy the yellow Ottawa garbage bags:
- Beacon Hill Home Hardware, 1934 Montreal Rd. (located in Ogilvie Square)
- Bridlewood Home Hardware, 90 Michael Cowpland Dr.
- Capital Home Hardware, 736 Bank St.
- Elmvale Acres Home Hardware, 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. (located in Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre)
- Leitrim Home Hardware, 4836 Bank St.
- Manotick Home Hardware, 1166 Beaverwood Rd. (located in the Mews of Manotick)
- Morris Home Hardware, 1226 Wellington St.
- Orléans Home Hardware, 470 Charlemagne Blvd.
- Stittsville Home Hardware, 6001 Hazeldean Rd.
- Trudel Home Hardware, 329 March Rd.
- Richmond BMR, 6379 Perth St.
Yellow bags are available at any City of Ottawa Client Service Centre during business hours.
Recreation and community centres
- Albion-Heatherington Recreation Centre, 1560 Heatherington Rd.
- Alexander Community Centre, 960 Silver St.
- Bob MacQuarrie Recreation Complex – Orléans, 1490 Youville Dr.
- CARDELREC Recreation Complex Goulbourn, 1500 Shea Rd.
- Carleton Heights Community Centre, 1665 Apeldoorn Ave.
- François Dupuis Recreation Centre, 2263 Portobello Blvd.
- Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre, 3320 Paul Anka Dr.
- Jack Purcell Community Centre, 320 Jack Purcell Lane
- Minto Recreation Complex – Barrhaven, 3500 Cambrian Rd.
- Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Ave.
- Overbrook Community Centre, 33 Quill St.
- St. Laurent Complex, 525 Coté St.
- Walter Baker Sports Centre,100 Malvern Dr.