Waste services for Wasaga Beach fall within the mandate of the County of Simcoe. 

General Information

• weekly waste collection with a limit of 2 untagged bags, any additional bags must have County garbage tags affixed.
• Simcoe County garbage tags will be available for $2.00 each, sold in sheets of 5 tags.
• two leaf and yard waste collections annually with waste placed in Kraft paper leaf bags or open top rigid containers.  NO PLASTIC BAGS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
• Maximum Weight:  20 kgs or 44 lbs each
• Standard Bag Size:  76 cm X 92 cm or 30" X 36"
• Maximum Can Size:  77L or 17 gal

Local Garbage Tag Outlets

Beach Builders Home Hardware
1955 Mosley Street

707 River Road West

Wasaga ESSO
1929 Mosley Street

Mac's Convenience
1551 Mosley Street

RONA Building Centre
1317 Mosley Street

Gatheral's Food Mart
620 River Road West

Wasaga Beach IGA
711 River Road West

Town of Wasaga Beach Administration Office
30 Lewis Street

Wasaga Beach Public Works Office
150 Westbury Road

Recycling Information

Containers (loose in blue box)

• GLASS BOTTLES AND JARS - remove caps and lids.  Rinse containers and place loose in blue box.  Please remove and discard straws
• FOOD AND BEVERAGE CANS - rinse out cans and place lids loose in the bottom of the can.  Place cans loose in blue box
• EMPTY PAINT CANS - let small amounts of paint dry in the can.  Knock out dry paint and put it in the garbage.  Remove lids and place cans loose in blue box
• ONLY PLASTIC BOTTLES, JUGS, TUBS AND LIDS (up to 4 litres or 1 gallon maximum) with these symbols on the bottom are accepted:  "1 - PETE", "2 - HDPE", "4 - LDPE", "5 - PP", "7 - OTHER"
• aluminum food trays and wraps

Paper Fibres (in separate box or bagged beside blue box)

• NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, CATALOGUES, PHONE BOOKS, HOUSEHOLD FINE PAPER - you can recycle glossy magazines, flyers, paper back books, writing paper, computer paper and white envelopes with the plastic film removed.  Place in a bag next to your blue box
• BOXBOARD - remove plastic or wax paper inserts and liners from cereal, detergent and shoe type boxes.  Toilet paper and paper towel rolls are boxboard, too.  Flatten and stuff into a boxboard box.  Place next to your blue box
• CORRUGATED CARDBOARD - layered cardboard with a ripple between the layers.  NO waxes cardboard.  Flatten and tie into bundles (maximum size 30" X 30" X 8", maximum of 3 bundles).  Place beside blue box

or contact the County of Simcoe Customer Service Centre
(705) 735-6901 or 1-800-263-3199
www.county.simcoe.on.ca

• Monday:   45th Street North east to 27th Street North, north of Mosley Street, and 27th Street North to Spruce Street, north side of Nottawasaga River, plus the Oxbow Park Drive area inclusive and Sunnidale River Road
• Tuesday:  east of Blueberry Trails to easterly Town limits including Golf Course Road and Powerline Road inclusive of Freethy Road and Klondike Park Road
• Wednesday:  excluding Oxbow Park Drive area, east of Schoonertown Bridge, south of Nottawasaga River to Blueberry Trails inclusive 
• Thursday:  45th Street to westerly Town limits, inclusive
• Friday:  east of 45th Street to Sunnidale Road, McIntyre Creek subdivision including all streets easterly off Sunnidale Road South

NOTE:  Scheduled collection days, as noted above, will remain throughout the year except when the public is advised otherwise by the County of Simcoe.  A notice will be posted on this web site.  If you require information regarding waste collection, please contact the County of Simcoe Customer Service Department at 705-726-9300.

FALL YARD WASTE COLLECTION WEEK:  November 26-30, 2007

IMPORTANT:  Leaf and Yard Waste must be at the curbside by 7:00 a.m. on MONDAY of your collection week. 

ACCEPTABLE CONTAINERS:  Plant material, leaves, grass, pumpkins, straw bales, cornstalks and brush trimmings that are no larger than 8 mm (5/16") in diameter are accepted.  Place them in kraft paper yard waste bags, unwaxed cardboard boxes or any rigid open top container (except a Blue Box).

These items are NOT collected as yard waste:

• kitchen waste
• rocks, dirt, branches, stumps
• painted or treated wood
• trimming larger than 8 mm (5/16") diameter
• flower pots
• animal feces
• non-organic materials (metals, styrofoam, plastics, etc.)
• NO PLASTIC BAGS

For further information, please contact the County of Simcoe, Customer Service Department at (705) 735-6901 or 1-800-263-3199