4,500 Ottawa households exceed 3-item garbage limit in first 2 weeks [Video]

Fewer than 4,500 Ottawa households exceeded the new three-item garbage limit in the first two weeks of the new household waste rules.

The city implemented a new three-item limit on all households that receive curbside waste pickup on Sept. 30, with the goal of extending the life of the Trail Road Waste Facility until 2049.

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Enforcement of Ottawa’s new three item garbage limit will be phased in over the next three months. In October, all garbage left at the curb will be collected, with staff leaving a “custom non-compliance tag” on a garbage bin indicating the limit has been exceeded.

Starting in December, only three garbage items will be collected every two weeks, and a non-compliance tag will be attached to garbage items left behind.

Statistics released by Solid Waste Services show 1.81 per cent …