City of Toronto, Garbage rules, front side, 2024
The City of Toronto has some specific rules as to what you can put out to the curb as garbage. If your waste does not comply they will not pick it up. Many newcomers to Toronto do not know many of these rules, so when the garbage guys are nice, they leave this type of notice.
If you are expecting a bunch of guys to be lifting up and throwing you trash bins into the back of their truck, those days are long gone. The trucks are now single driver and operate an automated arm. Trash bins are Toronto-specific and issued to be compatible with their trucks. Bins are lifted up and dumped from the top. Trash bin locks seem to unlock when upside down.
If you have too much junk that cannot fit into your bin, there’s no point in stacking it on top, because there’s no guy that will come out of his truck to manually load it.
The rules initially seem complex, especially what can be recycled, but we just got used to it.
City of Toronto, Garbage rules, front side, 2024
City of Toronto, Garbage rules, back side, 2024
