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Home/Residents/Garbage, Recycling and Composting/Tips for Windy Days

Unfortunately it always seems to be windy on recycling day! On windy days, the lighter contents in blue boxes can often be found blowing out of bins resulting in litter on our streets and on our neighbour's properties. To help prevent this from happening, here are a few suggestions to keep blue box contents in their place:

  • Place heavier items such as books and magazines on top of the lighter items. This should help prevent light blue box materials (such as paper) from blowing out of the bin and littering the streets.
  • Bundle cardboard and newspapers separately.  These bundles can act as a 'lid' for your blue box.
  • On windy days, consider putting your recycling boxes out for collection in the morning, rather than the night before or skip that week's collection and place your recycling out for following week if your blue boxes aren't full.
  • Please keep plastic bags/film plastic, styrofoam (including take out containers) and disposal coffee/soft drink cups out of the blue box. These items are not recyclable in our program and should be placed in the garbage.
  • Don't overfill your blue box, keep material below the rim to prevent the wind from catching it and blowing it out of the bin. There is no limit for the number of blue boxes put out for weekly collection.   Additional blue and green bins can be purchased online by completing this form. Orders placed before 4:30 pm Monday to Friday will be delivered the following week on your collection day. 
  • Do not stack blue boxes or place on top of snow banks. If the wind is strong enough it will blow these bins over, causing recyclables to spill all over the street.
  • Please remove empty bins from the curb as soon as you can after collection. The Town is not responsible for replacing for lost or stolen bins. Remember to write your address on the bins so they can be easily identified or returned to you if they do blow away.

You may also take your recycling to one of York Region's Recycling Depots located across the Region.

The Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville reminds residents to please do their part in helping to keep our community litter-free. Thank you for your co-operation!

For collection inquiries, please contact GFL Environmental Inc. at 1-866-421-5625.

Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville
111 Sandiford Drive
Stouffville, Ontario
L4A 0Z8

Tel: 905-640-1900
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Fax: 905-640-7957

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