Session starts at 9:30 AM

Centennial Place Building Tour (optional) starts after the session at 11:30 AM

On October 5, Council unanimously approved amendments to the Waste and Recycling Bylaw that will require businesses and organizations to recycle a specific list of materials starting November 1, 2016. The one-year lead time before the bylaw changes are enforced will give businesses and organizations time to prepare and adapt.

Under the changes, businesses and organizations must recycle all of the items now accepted in the Blue Cart program plus scrap metal, clear plastic film (polyethylene) and wood (including dimensional lumber, wooden pallets and other items made of raw and unprocessed wood). The bylaw includes fines for businesses and organizations that do not comply. Building owners/property managers are free to hire the service provider of their choice and negotiate costs directly with them.

Prior to the bylaw change, City landfills will charge higher disposal fees for commercial vehicle loads of garbage containing paper and cardboard beginning February 1, 2016. The City will ban paper and cardboard from our landfills by late 2018. These actions are intended to encourage more recycling of these materials.

Council also approved the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) Organics Diversion Strategy, which will include bylaw changes requiring businesses and organizations to separate their food and yard  waste so they can be diverted or composted instead of buried in a landfill. Waste & Recycling Services plans to bring proposed bylaw amendments to Council in the fall of 2016.

On on January 27, 2016 at Centennial Place, the City of Calgary and BOMA are co-hosting an information session. Register now!