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Cranbrook, BC (May 10, 2024) – Curbside garbage carts for the City’s new automated curbside garbage collection service are starting to be delivered to residents ahead of the June 3, 2024 service launch.

You will be receiving one, 240-litre wheeled cart for garbage to each residential household to the end of your driveway or walkway, along with an information guide, by May 24. If you requested a smaller 120-litre garbage cart, it will be delivered to you instead. 

“We’re so excited about this new service, and we’re really happy that some of our residents are already using the carts for their garbage,” says Chris Zettel, Corporate Communications Officer for the City. “However, we aren’t quite ready to start collecting your garbage from the new carts. We’ll start collecting your curbside bins after June 3. So, until then, please continue leaving your garbage out as you always have, in your usual garbage cans, in their usual locations.”

The City is scheduled to start automated garbage collection services on Monday, June 3, 2024. It is important that any garbage placed out for collection on, or after June 3, is only placed in the curbside garbage collection cart and placed at the curb for collection. Additional garbage will not be collected. 

Remember that garbage will continue to be collected on a weekly basis. Recycling will continue to be collected bi-weekly.

If you have not received a cart by Monday, May 27, 2024, please notify the City via 311.

To help our residents learn about the new automated garbage collection service ahead of our June 3, 2024 start, please visit our garbage collection webpage at https://cranbrook.ca/our-city/city-departments/public-works/solid-waste-pickup/.