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Solid Waste Master Plan

The City is developing a new Solid Waste Master Plan, to be completed by early 2022. The plan will guide how we manage solid waste over the next 30 years. As Ottawa grows and changes, we want to ensure our waste services evolve to meet new needs and challenges. This page will be your hub for updates and opportunities to provide feedback.

Nothing has been decided yet – your input counts!

Managing solid waste is a shared responsibility, and every resident has a part to play. That’s why, over the next two years, we need meaningful conversations with you to help ensure the new Solid Waste Master Plan works for everyone.

Have your say in-person or online as we consider questions like:

How are residents doing when it comes to diverting their waste?
What’s working in other cities, and should we do the same things here?
How can we get more people recycling and composting in multi-residential communities?
How can we get more people to reduce waste and to recycle more?
Should we have a zero-waste goal?
Can we afford to invest in new technologies to manage waste? Can we afford not to?
What can your City government do to build on contributions by the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada?

Join the conversation and ask your questions on Engage Ottawa.

You can also sign-up to receive information about consultation opportunities and updates about the plan.

The City is developing a new Solid Waste Master Plan, to be completed by early 2022. The plan will guide how we manage solid waste over the next 30 years. As Ottawa grows and changes, we want to ensure our waste services evolve to meet new needs and challenges. This page will be your hub for updates and opportunities to provide feedback.

Nothing has been decided yet – your input counts!

Managing solid waste is a shared responsibility, and every resident has a part to play. That’s why, over the next two years, we need meaningful conversations with you to help ensure the new Solid Waste Master Plan works for everyone.

Have your say in-person or online as we consider questions like:

How are residents doing when it comes to diverting their waste?
What’s working in other cities, and should we do the same things here?
How can we get more people recycling and composting in multi-residential communities?
How can we get more people to reduce waste and to recycle more?
Should we have a zero-waste goal?
Can we afford to invest in new technologies to manage waste? Can we afford not to?
What can your City government do to build on contributions by the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada?

Join the conversation and ask your questions on Engage Ottawa.

You can also sign-up to receive information about consultation opportunities and updates about the plan.

How do you reduce or avoid making waste?

4 months ago

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Kevin983

3 months ago

Better design for the 'Waste Explorer' app

There are over 900 entries in the app, some of which are oddly specific or similar to existing entries (eg, what's the difference between aluminum containers and aluminium cans?). Adding photos or pictures for each description would make it easier to figure out what category something is in.

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Intiaz Rahim

3 months ago

Cradle to Grave Products

This is more of a big picture initiative. ALL manufacturers of ANY product is required to pickup their products when the product is past its useful life. In the same way Amazon can delivery a package efficiently to your home, that exact same technology solution can be used for pickup and delivery back to the manufacturer. 2 Benefits 1) This would force manufacturers to create 360 products 2) Prices will increase so consumers will think twice of buying something they most likely don't need.

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rachelle.d

3 months ago

Make garbage bags more expensive so people are more incentivized to recycle / learn about recycling.

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Kevin983

3 months ago

Permanent hazardous-waste disposal location

When I bought my place, there were some old chemicals and paints leftover from the previous owners. It took me a couple of years to get rid of them, because the hazardous waste disposal depots are only open for one or two days a month during the summer and always in different locations, so you really need to plan ahead to use them. The City should explore having two or three permanent drop-off locations. This could be at existing City facilities (including the Dump), or be partly contracted out to industry, ie, have a contract with a Lowes/Home Depot/Rona location to operate a hazardous waste collection point, and then the City picks stuff up once or twice a week. Many home improvement stores already take back some or all of the paints/chemicals that they sell, so they might already have some of the capacity/training to handle this.

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Intiaz Rahim

3 months ago

Recycling required for construction sites

I work in the industry and we contribute so much landfill waste. I've always wondered why there's never any large bins on construction sites. The tonnage must be massive.

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