Durham's Waste Disposal Facilities

• Hours of Operation
• Site Locations and Phone Numbers
• Waste Disposal Fees
• How to Avoid Long Line-ups (Trip Tips)
• Site Operating Procedures
• The Paint Reuse Centre
• Electronic Equipment Recycling
• Private Waste Disposal Facilities

The Region of Durham operates a number of licensed Waste Disposal Sites for the disposal, recycling, composting, and reuse of residential household waste.

The following waste materials are accepted:

No commercial hazardous waste accepted at any site.

Waste Disposal Hours of Operation

Site Locations and Phone Numbers

Waste Disposal Fees

All vehicles, including cars, vans, and pickup trucks are subject to waste disposal charges. Charges are based on the weight of material disposed.

Methods of payment are: Cash, VISA or Interac. No cheques or accounts will be accepted.

For detailed information on waste disposal fees, see Site Operating Procedures.

How to Avoid Long Traffic Line-ups (Trip Tips)

Regional Waste Facilities are generally busiest on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until lunch. Schedule your visit for a Wednesday, Thursday or a Friday.

You can help shorten the line-ups. Make sure you have a full load of waste materials for disposal, before visiting a site. Full loads mean fewer trips for you and shorter line-ups for everyone else.

Operating Procedures for Regional Sites

1. Enter scale on green light or as directed. Stop at operator’s window or microphone/speaker. Stay in vehicle. Please roll down your window and talk to the scale operator.
   
   
2. Declare type of waste material being delivered. Choose one of the following:


• Garbage: general residential and commercial waste including: tires, yard waste, brush, new drywall end cuts, scrap metal, wood, white goods and appliances, electronics.
• Blue Box: newspaper, glass bottles and jars, cardboard, boxboard, metal and aluminum food and beverage containers, all plastic bottles with a twist-off lid, milk and juice cartons, empty aerosol and paint cans.
• Household Hazardous Waste: oil and oil filters, paints and stains, propane tanks, batteries, antifreeze
  
  It is the responsibility of the vehicle operator to fully and properly declare the type of waste being delivered. It not, the computerized weigh scale system will default to "Garbage". Once a vehicle drives off the scale, the materials rate will not be changed.

3. Exit scale when given the green light or as directed. Drive to unloading area. Place waste materials in designated containers, as posted by signs or as directed by staff.
   
   
4. All outbound vehicles must drive over the outbound scale, prior to leaving the site, and pay applicable waste disposal charges.
   
   
5. Enter scale when given the green light or as directed. Drive up to the operator's window. Stop. Stay in vehicle. Please have payment ready to reduce the line-ups and speed up service.
   
   
6. Wait for direction from the scale operator. The computerized weigh scale system calculates waste disposal charges.
   
   
7. Waste disposal fees are as follows:

8. To receive the "no charge" for Household Hazardous Wastes, no other waste materials can be in the load, or there will be a charge.
   
   
9. Daily load restrictions per vehicle are as follows:
   
   • five tires, with or without rims
   • 50 litres of household hazardous waste of any kind is accepted
     
     
10. No commercial hazardous waste of any kind is accepted.
    
    
11. When scales are not in service, a flat rate charge system will apply and staff will estimate the loads.
    
    
12. Vehicles with unpaid accounts are not permitted into any Regional Waste Management Facility until the account is paid in full.
    
    

The Paint Reuse Centre

For residents wishing to dispose of unwanted but useable paints or stains, the Region offers a special program that encourages other residents to reuse these materials. This program operates out of the Region's Waste Disposal Site in Oshawa only. The Paint Reuse Centre offers residents good re-useable paints and stains at "no charge".

Electronic Equipment Recycling

For residents wishing to dispose of unwanted electronic equipment, the Region offers another special program that encourages waste diversion from landfill disposal.

All the equipment received is completely shredded at an approved industrial recycling site and the materials are recovered for reuse.

Acceptable items include: radios, stereos, VCRs personal computers, attachments, telephones, fax machines, photocopiers, electronic cash registers and calculators.

Waste disposal fees apply.

Private Waste Disposal Facilities