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Apartment and Condos receiving communal collection of garbage, recycling and food scraps could save space with the Container Sharing Program.
Property managers are responsible for ensuring collectors can efficiently pick up waste from their buildings. They maintain collection areas and report any concerns. They also help answer questions about waste collection from residents and owners.
By the end of 2027, all Edmontonians will be sorting their waste for collection into food scraps, recycling and garbage. The rollout is happening in 4 phases and began in Southeast Edmonton in 2023.
The City can more efficiently process waste, send less to the landfill, and preserve the environment by separately collecting food scraps and recycling.
These changes have been approved by City Council and are included in Waste Services Bylaw 20363.
Watch a Property Manager's Guide to Apartment and Condo Collection
Before rolling out this service to your building, the City will recommend the best location to place your building’s waste containers, either outdoors or in sorting rooms. It’s likely they’ll be in the same locations as your existing waste bins.
Once food scraps and recycling collection begins, your garbage collection frequency may change. As residents start to sort food scraps out of their garbage and into a separate container, there will be less garbage in your bins.
Site decision-makers, such as property managers, condo board members and owners, can request a review of their building’s waste collection assessment, including the size of containers and the number of collection locations, by submitting an Assessment Letter Review Request.
Site decision-makers can request a review of their building’s waste collection assessment, including the size of containers and the number of collection locations.
These tools can help you inform your residents and understand the waste collection changes coming to your property.
Guide for Property Managers: Review the guide to learn the basics of the new program and what steps you need to take.
Resident Handout: A few weeks before the new program comes to your property, please print the Resident Handout and share it with residents, post in common areas or slide under doors.
New Move-in Booklet : Has your building transitioned to 3-stream collection? Share this booklet with new move-ins to help them understand how to sort and dispose of their waste.
What Goes Where (Apartment and Condo Collection) Poster: Display this poster in waste rooms and other common areas, and use it to help answer resident questions about waste sorting.
Bins and Cart Measurements: View the dimensions of the communal collection bins and carts.
Oops Tag: Familiarize yourself with this tag, which collectors will attach to a communal bin if they are unable to collect it. The issue will be identified on the tag and the bin will be collected on your next collection day.
Poster for Waste Chutes: Display the poster at your building’s waste chutes, to let residents know chutes are only for garbage and direct them to food scraps and recycling disposal locations.
"Use Other Bin" poster: Display this poster at waste disposal sites if you notice that one set of bins is filling up faster than others.
Get Prepared: A Property Manager’s Guide to Apartment and Condo Collection
When food scraps and recycling carts and bins are delivered to your building, each unit will receive:
City waste education staff will visit each unit to answer questions about the program. Property managers will be contacted with more details when the program comes to their building.
For questions about the program, email wastechanges@edmonton.ca or call 311.
To help keep waste collection efficient and safe, property managers are required to:
If collectors cannot access or pick up your property’s bins, collection will need to be rescheduled and may be subject to additional charges.
It’s important to encourage residents to flatten boxes before throwing them into the recycling bin.
As your residents adapt to the three-stream waste sorting system, you should notice more put into the recycling bin and less into the garbage bin.
Cardboard boxes take up a lot of space. Unflattened cardboard boxes can cause the bin to fill up quickly and risk the bin overflowing. Overflowing bins cannot safely be serviced by waste collectors and will not be emptied.
Did you know? An unflattened box takes up roughly 10 times more space than a flattened one.
Bins are considered overflowing if there is waste material visible above the rim. Overflowing bins may result in additional pickups and additional charges.
Property managers are currently able to request an extra pickup by calling the Waste Customer Support Team at 780-496-5698. Please give us 24-48 hours notice.
Note: this extra pickup policy will be updated in the future.
Illegal dumping is a significant problem. If you see someone illegally dumping waste, record as much information as you can and report it through 311.
If you believe your collection was missed, call the Waste Customer Support Team at 780-496-5698. Large items placed beside a bin will not be collected and are not considered a missed collection.
If one of your carts goes missing or gets damaged, report it to the Waste Customer Support Team at 780-496-5698 or wastesupport@edmonton.ca.