Ottawa garbage & recycling collection schedule
Ottawa, Ontario
What Ottawa collects
- Garbage
- Recycling
- Green Bin
CurbDay reads Ottawa's own published collection calendar, including its holiday shifts, and matches your address to the exact zone it belongs to.
Find your collection day
Collection days in Ottawa vary by zone — two houses on the same street can be on different schedules — so there is no single date to publish here. Enter your address and CurbDay works out which zone you are in.
Why Ottawa's schedule confuses people
Recycling alternates between the black box (paper and fibres) and the blue box (containers), and residents report the official tools disagreeing about which is which.
CurbDay names the box on every recycling date — blue in your garbage week, black in the other — with green bin weekly. The two are locked together, so the box follows the week a collection belongs to even when a holiday moves the day.