Check out this schedule or search for your address here and select “View Schedule” to determine your garbage and recycling collection schedule.
Please note that in order to schedule a bulky item collection you must call Modern at 1-844-624-3126.
Garbage & Recycling Collection Programs
Garbage & Recycling Collection Tips:
- Collection occurs weekly
- Set out all materials by 7 a.m. to ensure they are collected
- Maximum weight 18 kg (40 lbs) per recycling or garbage container
- Please do not place your materials behind a vehicle, snowbank, or other obstruction
Recycling Collection Program Details:
- We offer a two box program – use one for papers and one for containers
- Request a blue or black box by calling Modern at 1-844-624-3126
- No set-out limits for residential
- Institutional, Commercial and Industrial limits:
- up to six boxes/totes and six bundles of cardboard
- Find out if an item is recyclable or what box to place a recyclable material in by using the What Goes Where search tool
- Please rinse out your containers
- Bundle your plastic bags and place them in your paper box
Garbage Collection Program Details:
- Maximum 3 cans/bags per household or 10 bags/cans per business or group home
- Please ensure glass is contained in a box and labelled appropriately
Oops!
You may have received an Oops! sticker on your garbage bag/bin or black/blue box. Here are some steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again:
- Have a look at the sticker to find out why this has happened
- Correct the problem
- Place materials out the following week!
Leaf and yard waste curbside collection dates for urban areas are:
April 24 to May 27, 2023 and October 23 to December 1, 2023.
Leaf and yard waste can be disposed of at the Canborough Waste Management Facility , free of charge, year round for Haldimand County residents (non commercial).
Please note a tipping fee will apply for commercial disposal.
Collection Tips:
- No limit on the amount of leaf and yard waste set out
- Only paper yard waste bags (rolled shut) or open-top, reusable, rigid containers with the label “yard waste” may be used
- Branches must be bundled no larger than 1.2 m x 0.75 m
- Maximum weight of 18 kg (40 lbs) per container
- Please set-out material no later than 7 a.m.
- Learn about what goes in yard waste here
How to book a bulky item collection
- Residents may call Modern at 1-844-624-3126 to schedule a bulky item collection
- You may schedule a maximum of two bulky item collections per year
- You may set out up to six items per collection
Acceptable bulky items:
- Furniture
- Mattresses/box springs
- Carpeting/linoleum – must be tied into rolls measuring no longer than 1.2 m (4 ft), 30.5 cm (12 inch) in diameter
- Each piece or bundles counts towards the six item limit
- If you are wondering whether an item that isn’t listed here is part of the program, search for it here
Unacceptable bulky items:
- Construction & demolition waste. You may dispose of these materials at the Canborough Waste Management Facility, tipping fees apply
- Metal – appliances, barbecues, bed frames, furnaces, hot water heaters, metal bath tubs, storage sheds, bicycles. You may dispose of these items free of charge at the Canborough Waste Management Facility.
Bulky item collection tips:
- Once your collection is scheduled and you are given a collection date, ensure to have your materials placed at the curb no later than 7 a.m.
- A two-person crew must be able to lift what you set out
- Rather than disposing of your item and depending on the condition, try donating it to a friend or family member or re-use store
Bulky Item Collection Schedule
Open up the Bulky Item Collection Zones to determine what zone you’re in. You may also call Modern at 1-844-624-3126. Requests must be in and confirmed by Modern staff no later than the Thursday before the next collection day.
January 2022 – March 2023 Collection Schedule:
| DUNNVILLE/ BYNG | CALEDONIA/ YORK | CAYUGA/ HAGERSVILLE | JARVIS/ NANTICOKE |
| JAN. 3 | JAN. 10 | JAN. 17 | JAN. 24 |
| FEB. 7 | FEB. 14 | FEB. 22 (Tues.) | FEB. 28 |
| MAR. 7 | MAR. 14 | MAR. 21 | MAR. 28 |
| APR. 4 | APR. 11 | APR. 19 (Tues.) | APR. 25 |
| MAY 2 | MAY 9 | MAY 16 | MAY 24 (Tues.) |
| JUN. 6 | JUN. 13 | JUN. 20 | JUN. 27 |
| JUL. 4 | JUL. 11 | JUL. 18 | JUL. 25 |
| AUG. 2 (Tues.) | AUG. 8 | AUG. 15 | AUG. 22 |
| SEP. 6 (Tues.) | SEP. 12 | SEP. 19 | SEP. 26 |
| OCT. 3 | OCT. 11 (Tues.) | OCT. 17 | OCT. 24 |
| NOV. 7 | NOV. 14 | NOV. 21 | NOV. 28 |
| DEC. 5 | DEC. 12 | DEC. 19 | DEC. 27 (Tues.) |
| JAN. 3 (Tues.) | JAN. 9 | JAN. 16 | JAN. 23 |
| FEB. 6 | FEB. 13 | FEB. 21 (Tues.) | FEB. 27 |
| MAR. 6 | MAR. 13 | MAR. 20 | MAR. 27 |
Haldimand County is providing Technical Guidelines For Waste Collection Services On Private Property to ensure that owners of townhouses, condominium complexes, multi-residential structures, trailer parks and privately owned roads within the County, are familiar with appropriate waste collection and waste storage systems.
The County is pleased to provide waste and recycling collection services to our residents, businesses and other property owners. However, in order to continue to provide safe and efficient service, the County requires that some minimum standards be met. This document provides the minimum requirements only and the County will work with existing properties or development projects to gain optimum efficiencies for both the property owners and the County. In addition to the requirements set out in this document, Municipal and County site plan requirements, Waste Collection By-law, Building and Fire Codes and any other applicable Regulations are also required.
Technical Guidelines for Waste Collection on Private Property
Fill out the forms required and return to the email listed below. We will contact you back to let you know if services will be provided to you and the details regarding your collection.
Become a recycling champion!
Are you proud of your impressive recycling habits? If you would like to have a surprise audit done on your black and/or blue boxes, send us an email at the address below and you could be our next champion! Champions will receive a trophy sticker, like the one pictured to the left, on their properly sorted box(es).
Have burning waste-related questions you’d like answered? Confused about plastics? Not sure what to do with Styrofoam?
E-mail your questions to waste@haldimandcounty.on.ca and have them answered on social media/in The Haldimand Press by Trash Talking Trish & Tabitha!
Here’s what we have published to date:
QUESTION #1 – Why Sort Recyclables?
QUESTION #2 – Leaf and Yard Waste?
QUESTION #3 – Clean my Recycling?
QUESTION #4 – What to do with my Christmas Tree?
QUESTION #5 – Single Use Plastics
QUESTION #6 – Inclement Weather
QUESTION #10 – Wind Blown Recyclables
QUESTION #11 – Hazardous Waste
Each year Haldimand County Environmental Operations sponsors a contest for the Caledonia Fair. In 2021 children in grades 5 through 8 were asked to take a basic cylindrical can from your blue box and design a freestanding, artistic looking robot, adding additional recycled items accepted within Haldimand County’s curbside collection program (i.e. metal, lids, paper, cardboard, containers etc.).
The students did a great job! Pictured above on the left are the entries received and on the right are the winners.