Yellow bags are needed soon for extra garbage in Ottawa

Starting on Monday if households are above the new three-item garbage bag limit residents can use a yellow bag instead.

If the three-garbage bag limit is exceeded and there is no yellow bag, an item will be left behind with a note, a city press release reads. By December, any bags over the limit that are not in the yellow bag will be left at the curb.

This is a part of Ottawa’s goal to lower the number of garbage items reducing build-up at the Trail Road Waste Facility and greenhouse gases. There are no limits on recycling or composting.

Bags are sold in packages of four for $17.60. There are no limits on the number of yellow bags out on the curb or the number purchased.

“Keep in mind that large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged,” a city press release notes.

Here’s where to buy the yellow Ottawa garbage bags:

• Beacon Hill Home Hardware, 1934 Montreal Rd. (located in Ogilvie Square)
• Bridlewood Home Hardware, 90 Michael Cowpland Dr.
• Capital Home Hardware, 736 Bank St.
• Elmvale Acres Home Hardware, 1910 St. Laurent Blvd. (located in Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre)
• Leitrim Home Hardware, 4836 Bank St.
• Manotick Home Hardware, 1166 Beaverwood Rd. (located in the Mews of Manotick)
• Morris Home Hardware, 1226 Wellington St.
• Orléans Home Hardware, 470 Charlemagne Blvd.
• Stittsville Home Hardware, 6001 Hazeldean Rd.
• Trudel Home Hardware, 329 March Rd.
• Richmond BMR, 6379 Perth St.

Yellow bags are available at any City of Ottawa Client Service Centre during business hours.

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