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

Do I live within an “urban area”?

If you live within the areas outlined in the following maps, then you will receive leaf and yard waste collection during the time periods specified in the Garbage & Recycling Schedule.

Caledonia

Cayuga

Dunnville

Hagersville

Jarvis

Townsend

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:

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 #8 – Windy Daze

QUESTION #9 – Ziploc Bags

QUESTION #10 – Wind Blown Recyclables

QUESTION #11 – Hazardous Waste

QUESTION #12 – Illegal Dumping

QUESTION #13 – Construction and Demolition Debris