Single family homes & multi-residences
Single-family residences and multi-unit residential properties with four or fewer units are eligible for residential Curbside Collection of garbage, organics, and recycling.
Garbage and organics collection are provided by the City of Whitehorse and alternates weekly between garbage (Black Cart) and organics (Green Cart).
Residential recycling services are not provided by the City of Whitehorse. Curbside recycling collection is provided by Circular Materials, a producer responsibility organization operating under the Yukon’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulation. Recycling does not follow the same schedule as garbage and organics collection.
Curbside Collection Schedules
Waste and organics: 2026 Curbside Collection Schedule (Feb 2026 to Jan 2027)
Curbside Recycling: Circular Materials
Missed garbage or organics collection? Call 867-668-8350
Missed recycling collection? Call 867-687-1615
Garbage
Your Black Cart collects household garbage, including non-recyclable packaging, hygiene products, bagged pet waste (feces, litter, and bedding), bagged wood ashes (cold!), used vacuum cleaner bags, and soiled aluminum foil.
Your Black Cart does not collect organic waste (food scraps, leaf and yard waste), recycling (cardboard, paper, containers), household hazardous waste (HHW), or electronic waste.
Bulky items, appliances, metals, and HHW can be brought to the Waste Management Facility.
Organic Waste
Your Green Cart collects organic waste, including food waste, food scraps, food-soiled paper, leaves, yard waste, and certified compostable containers. Check out the sorting guides below to learn more about what to put in your Green Cart.
Extra yard waste?
Additional leaf and yard waste can be set out in compostable bags along with your Green Cart. Your waste collectors make between 1000-2000 stops a day. To help them out, please limit extra yard waste bags to 4 to 5 per week. If you have more, store them until your next scheduled collection day. Extra leaf and yard waste is also accepted at the Waste Management Facility (tipping fees apply).
Your Green Cart must be full before putting out extra yard bags. Add yard bags into your Green Cart if it’s not full.
Yard bags must be under 50 lbs. Overweight bags will not be collected.
Keep carts 1 metre away from obstacles. Including extra yard bags.
Thank you for your consideration as we work to provide the best service possible!
You are required to sort organics, metals, clean wood, appliances, tires, concrete, asbestos, animal carcasses and hazardous waste. Recyclable packaging and paper products, cardboard and electronic waste are not accepted at the Waste Management Facility and should be brought to Raven ReCentre for free drop-off.
Want to learn what goes where? Check out our Waste and Organics Sorting Guides in English, French, German, Northern Tutchone, Southern Tutchone, Tagalog, and Punjabi. Click and print copies for your home and office.
Why sort waste?
Sorting your waste reduces the cost of disposal and helps conserve landfill airspace. Unsorted waste is subject to higher tipping fees. When materials are separated, we create opportunities for recycling and composting. Diverting organics to our compost facility reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the landfill.
You are required to sort certain wastes such as organics, metals, clean wood, appliances, tires, concrete, asbestos, animal carcasses, and hazardous waste. Recyclable packaging and paper products, cardboard and electronic waste are not accepted at the and should be brought to Raven ReCentre for free drop-off.
Some waste requires special handling for safe and effective burial in the landfill, such as animal carcasses and asbestos.
Our What Goes Where app makes sorting your waste a snap. Click on ‘Wizard’ to search for an item and we’ll give you local options for recycling, composting, or disposal. If you can’t find a given item, e-mail [email protected] with your inquiry.
Making sure that waste is secured not only prevents wildlife from accessing it but also reduces the risk of people illegally dumping it in your cart, which is a theft of service.
Living in close proximity to the wilderness comes with the collective responsibility to keep it wild. An important part of keeping our wilderness wild is properly managing our waste, as well as other attractants. Wildlife habituated to waste leads to human-wildlife interactions which could prove deadly for the animal. This includes foxes, coyotes, and bears!
Please report illegal dumping to Bylaw Services at 867-667-2111. For more tips on living with wildlife, click here.