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Waste from most apartments and condominiums in Edmonton is collected in large shared bins. On-site garbage and recycling bins help residents sort waste for collection.
Apartment and Condos receiving communal collection of garbage, recycling and food scraps could save space with the Container Sharing Program.
Soon, residents in apartments, condos, row houses and other multi-unit buildings will sort food scraps and recycling from their garbage. The rollout is happening in 4 phases and began in Southeast Edmonton in 2023. Learn which phase your area falls in.
Some apartments and condos (mostly 4 or 5-unit complexes) will not be a part of this change, and will instead be transitioned to curbside waste collection. Each unit will have its own assigned food scraps and garbage carts, and will be responsible for setting out waste at the curb or alley on collection day.
With this transition, the monthly utility rate of those units will increase a small amount each year over a 5-year period until it aligns with the rate of other customers receiving curbside collection.
The new Waste Services Bylaw (20363) helps prepare for changes to the way waste is sorted and collected at apartments and condos. Apartment and condo collection is called communal collection in the bylaw.
This bylaw mandates three-stream collection (garbage, recycling and food scraps) at all apartments and condos. This will be phased in across the City over the next 4 years.
This means that collection containers for all 3 streams of waste (garbage, recycling and food scraps) will need to be located near each other and equally accessible. This includes containers in indoor and outdoor waste collection areas. We will assist property managers and developers with this change.
