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About Waste & Recycling Services

Who is Waste & Recycling Services?

Waste & Recycling collects waste, manages landfills and operates waste diversion programs and facilities for residential and commercial customers in Calgary.

Our mission - To enable Calgarians to reduce and manage their waste responsibly, now and into the future.

Waste & Recycling Services overview

We provide residential garbage and recycling collection for a city of more than one million people, manage active and inactive landfills to protect public health and the environment and develop and deliver education programs that support reduce, reuse, recycle and residual management.

At Waste & Recycling Serv​ices, we perform the following services:

Collect residential waste as defined under Waste & Recycling Bylaw 4M2020.

Collect limited commercial and industrial waste on a fee-for-service basis.

Operate three landfills, available to Calgary and the surrounding region.

The City of Calgary is the first public waste management organization in Western Canada to achieve registration for WRS ISO 14001 Certificate.

Provide a variety of waste diversion programs:

  • Black cart garbage collection
  • Blue Cart recycling and community recycling depots
  • Green Cart food and yard waste
  • Spring and Fall yard waste drop-off
  • Electronics recycling
  • Household hazardous waste collection and disposal programs
  • Recycling activities for selected materials at landfill sites

Learn more about our diversion programs on the pages below:

WRS Chatbot Freedom of Information Policy statement

The personal information collected herein is authorized under Section 33(c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act of Alberta, and will be used for the purpose of providing the user with the specific date of their residential recycling, compost and waste collection. Should you have questions about the use of your information, please contact  Administration Supervisor at  P.O. Box 2100, Station M (#27), Calgary, AB Canada T2P 2M5 or at 403-268-8446.

Find out more about how The City protects your personal information.

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