Waste & Recycling Services is responsible for the management of waste & recycling in The City of Calgary. They provide the following services: 

• Collect residential waste
• Collect commercial and industrial waste on a fee-for-service basis.
• Dispose of residential and commercial waste by operating three landfills, available to Calgary and the surrounding region.
• Provide leaf and backyard composting programs, Christmas tree recycling, electronics recycling, chemical waste collection and disposal programs, and recycling activities for selected materials at the landfill sites.

The City of Calgary is the first public waste management organization in Western Canada to achieve ISO 14001 registration.

They are moving Calgary towards recycling 80 per cent of Calgarians' waste by 2020. At the same time, they maintain landfills and weekly garbage collection for a city of more than one million people.

View The City of Calgary's Waste and Recycling Services webpage