Waste Collection Schedule

• How can you ensure you always know your collection day?

  Use the Town's easy-to-use, online collection schedule tool above to help ensure you never miss a collection day again! Using just your address, you can access your own personalized Collection Schedule. With this tool you can:

  1. Search your address, then set up a reminder or import your personalized Collection Schedule to your online iCal, Outlook or Google Calendar
  2. View, download (PDF), or print your personalized Collection Schedule
  3. Sign up for personalized reminders by email, voicemail or Twitter.
  4. Download the free Okotoks Waste app  (Available on Apple app store or Google Play store) The app will help you keep track of your collection days, special collection days, upcoming waste and recycling events, collection changes, identify 'what goes where' and more. 

  Remember collection happens on most stat holidays that fall between Tuesday and Friday, with the exception of Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Check the schedule and sign up for personalized reminders to ensure you never miss a collection day.

• What Goes In your Garbage, Organics and Recycling Carts

  Do you know how to properly dispose of your waste? Type the name of an item and we'll tell you how. A lot of your waste can be diverted from the landfill. It's easy!

  1. Select "What Goes Where? from the tab in the widget above
  2. Type in the item you want to dispose of: candy wrapper, computer, paper, Styrofoam, paint, batteries etc.
  3. Hit the search button!

  You can also access the What Goes Where directly from the Town's Mobile Waste App!

Town Collection Web Map

Frequently Asked Questions

• Do all my carts (garbage, organics and recycling) get collected on the same day?

  Yes. Set out all 3 carts to be collected on the same day.

  Please ensure that all items are placed at the curb by 7 a.m. on your scheduled day to ensure pick-up. 

• What happens when a stat holiday falls on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday?

  The Town wants to ensure residents know that waste collection occurs as usual on most stat holiday's that fall Tuesday through Friday.

  With collection happening on most stat holidays, residents will only see two days per year where collection days will change, which are Christmas Day and New Years day. Collection may fall the day before or the day after these stat holidays to keep workloads manageable. When a stat holiday is approaching, check the mobile app or online schedule to ensure you know what day your collection is moving to. Or better yet, sign up for reminders so you get a convenient reminder anytime there is a change to your collection day due to holidays, snowstorms, equipment breakdowns etc!

  Residents are being asked to assist drivers with collection on stat holidays, especially in cul-de-sacs, by:

  • moving carts out from between parked cars (or move cars altogether when possible).
  • placing carts out by 7 AM (as usual) – our drivers will be out bright and early as usual, even though it’s a stat holiday. If planning a sleep in, please put carts out the night before.

  If carts are not placed out on the stat holiday, households will need to wait until their next scheduled collection for pick up.