A review of the City’s 2008 Solid Waste Management Master Plan (SWMMP) is currently underway and will provide recommendations that build on Guelph’s leadership in waste minimization and diversion for a sustainable, service focused and economically viable future. The SWMMP—a 25-year strategy approved by Council—set a path to achieve new waste minimization, diversion and disposal […]
Category: Takin’ out the Trash
Food Waste Pilot Project
A note from Solid Waste staff. I am pleased to share with you details of an exciting new partnership between the City and the University of Guelph. Starting on Monday, July 22, Solid Waste Resources staff and the Professor of Sustainable Food Production in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph and […]
Bring us your stuff! Garage Sale at WECC
Cleaning out your cupboards? Bring us your stuff! The West End Community Centre is hosting a Garage Sale September 13 – 22. Please share this message, and bring us your gently used items. We’ll sell them to raise funds for the United Way of Guelph and Wellington County.
Council to consider new waste cart exchange trial period and fee
On May 27, City Council will consider a $35 fee to cover the City’s cost to transport and clean each exchanged blue or grey waste cart, after a 12 week trial period. A staff report outlining the details of the recommendation was presented yesterday at the Planning, Building, Engineering and Environment Committee. “Based on last […]
Guelph's award-winning organics facility under budget, functioning well
At the Planning, Building, Engineering and Environment Committee meeting earlier this week, Councillors learned Guelph’s award-winning Organic Waste Processing Facility (OWPF) is functioning well and has successfully achieved all testing and compliance approvals required by the Ministry of the Environment. “We’re pleased all commissioning is now complete, the facility is performing as intended, and its […]
Majority of users satisfied with Guelph's waste carts
A recent City of Guelph commissioned telephone survey reveals 80 per cent of residents using waste carts are satisfied with the City’s new waste collection system. This majority is composed of 56 per cent of survey respondents who are more satisfied with the waste carts collection system compared to the previous bag-based program, and an […]
Trans-Canada Trail Clean-up this Sunday
This Sunday May 5, 10am. Meet at Speedvale and the TCT Trailhead. Be a friend
Residents asked to choose blue and grey cart sizes by May 31
Residents scheduled to receive waste carts this year are asked to provide their preferred size of blue (recyclables) and grey (garbage) carts to the City by May 31. “Using carts instead of plastic bags; sorting organics, recyclables and waste carefully; and processing our organic material locally are all part of a concerted effort to reduce […]
Friends of the Trans-Canada Trail Spring Clean up
Okay, so we may be more like fair-weather Friends of the TCT. Let’s try a reschedule of our Spring (yes, Spring is here) trail clean up. Sunday May 5, 2013 10am Meet at the TCT trailhead on Speedvale Avenue, east of Woolwich St. We will clean our way south to Goldie Mill. Hope to see […]
Friends of the Trans-Canada Trail clean-up postponed till Spring
Due to an unsympathetic return of ol’ man winter, the TCT trail clean up is postponed for today. It will be rescheduled asap. Ya can’t clean up what you can’t see. ian