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Waste from most apartments, condos, row houses and other multi-unit buildings in Edmonton is collected in large, shared on-site garbage and recycling bins.
Waste collection is changing for apartments and condos, and it’s okay to have questions! A virtual information session for property managers is available to help you support your tenants. Staff will be available to answer questions and share information about the rollout.
Date: December 3, 2025
Time: 1-2:30pm
Residents in these dwellings have now started to sort food scraps and recycling from their garbage for collection. The rollout is happening in 4 phases and began in Southeast Edmonton in 2023.
Find out when food scraps and recycling collection is coming to your building.
Reduce the number of containers needed for your property.
Stay up-to-date on the changes coming to apartment and condo collection.
WasteWise provides residents with helpful tips on waste sorting, collection schedules, notifications and more.
Use WasteWise Online
Quickly and easily learn how to sort your waste.
Download the WasteWise App
View sorting instructions, collection schedules and more.
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.
After Transition
Before Transition
In 2022, before the rollout of apartment and condo collection started, we looked at what people were putting into their building’s garbage bins.
Over half of the waste was either food scraps or recyclables. Another 16% of the waste should have gone to an Eco Station.
| Category | Average |
|---|---|
| Organics | 37% |
| Recycling | 28% |
| Eco Station Waste | 16% |
| Garbage | 20% |
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.
